The future under Westminster

The government has just changed the rules governing pensions to allow people to be able to withdraw money from their pensions savings for other uses. However, they realised that some people might use that ability unwisely and so they have come up with the glorious idea of giving each pensioner an interview at which they will be given an estimate of their likely life expectancy so that they can then budget their money properly and avoid running out of money by spending it all too soon under the new liberties available courtesy of the new pension rules. Have you ever heard anything as stupid? First, who on earth wants to be told when they are likely to die? Good morning sir, I'm very pleased to inform you that you have a month to live and you can spend as much of your money as you can anyway you want, now isn't that good news! Next, this government now thinks that pensioners are all to be treated like children who have no idea as to the value of money. Once people reach 65, it is surely safe to assume that a lifetime of managing their money will have equipped them to face retirement with an ability to manage their personal finances. If not then why give them the chance to use their own money as they see fit in the first place? The pensions minister tells us that once we reach retirement we don't know how long that retirement will be. Now I'm sure no-one has ever thought of that before, thank goodness for a government that believes in forward planning. This attitude comes from a mindset that can only focus on finance, money is all that matter to, or motivates, such people.

We now have the information that new rules by the government will require anyone unemployed for over two years to report to a jobcentre every day. People have taken issue with me over my repeated warnings that the elite in this country are introducing modern forms of slavery. Here we have a situation where the government will be monitoring people's everyday movements as well as how pensioners spend their money. We have one million people using foodbanks every day, and over 10 million people who are in part-time or temporary work with half of those in zero-hours contracts whilst over 400 staff in Barclays bank are getting £1million bonuses, and the Royal Bank wanting to give 200% bonuses to their elite staff. I repeat, unemployment and other benefits are rights, they are not handouts, they are the price the elite pay for their wealth and privilege.

Every Westminster party, and that includes UKIP, are committed to the dominant neoliberal economic model. Such measures are the result of that model and so it matters not a jot who wins the next Westminster elections, this is your future. People are, and each living individual is, now regarded as a commodity, as an economic unit of labour and consumption. People have been effectively dehumanised, they have been given a price, and that price is the measure of their worth and their humanity to society. The unemployed and people on benefits have no price and are therefore regarded as costs, as liabilities on the government's balance sheet, they are effectively subhuman, what the Nazis referred to as untermenschen. It is therefore permissible to treat them as garbage with neither rights nor dignity. I ask you to reflect on that between now and September. You have been warned.

Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat