I want you all to contemplate Chancellor George Osborne's statement in his budget speech that, according to this coalition government, Britain is walking tall again because of their policies. He is telling us that this government is a success, its policies have been a success and that "the sun is shining again". These remarks come from someone who has only one criteria for reference, a very narrow monetary criteria that takes no account of either politics, social conditions or the general welfare of the nation. I also wish you to note that the Labour Party has already told us that they will not alter the budget provisions in any way, they will only make different spending priorities within the same budgetary framework. So, Labour are in effect agreeing with the Chancellor's analysis of the health of the nation and differening only in the details of how to operate within the limits set by the government. Remember these are the people who told us that we are Better Together.
We therefore have a Westminster political class who are agreed that we are indeed walking tall. However, their height has been gained on the backs of over 1million people relying on foodbanks every day. If we are walking tall it is on the backs of working people who the government's own figures tell us are losing £1500 per annum since this government came into power. We are walking tall over the estimated 67% of Scottish people who are now supporting independence because they realise the treachery of all the Westminster parties following the referendum lies. We are walking tall over the backs of people who are committing suicide because of benefits cuts, over an NHS that is falling apart, is seriously understaffed at the clinical level and is being slowly but surely dismantled by privatisation. We are walking tall over the backs of the victims of the biggest housing crisis in my lifetime, where private landlords are making fortunes from exploitative rents and governments are encouraging them by refusing to build enough homes for people. We are walking tall over the backs of over 10million people who are in part-time temporary and zero-hours employment. We are walking tall over the backs of what the government themselves recently estimated to be around half a million people living in slavery in this country. Even the government's own people are now admitting that the burden of the recovery that they are trying, and failing miserably, to achieve, has fallen on the poorest people in our society. I could genuinely write a book about this. This is government by outright lie. This is government by blatant class warfare. This is government by an elite who openly display a hatred for the majority of the people it has been elected to represent. These people are indeed walking tall as they are making fortunes out of everyone else's misery. However, the majority and particularly the poorest people in our society are barely crawling never mind walking. What you must ask yourself, is this the type of society I wish to live in? Do I agree that the country can only walk tall because of the misery of others? Is this the type of people I wish to represent me?
The callousness and greed of the people who run this country cannot be understood by normal people. Most people find it difficult to believe that what they are doing to ordinary people is quite planned and deliberate. I know this because I spend so much of my time listening to people who refuse to believe what is in front of their eyes. You see because people are basically decent, they think that politicians are decent as well and wouldn't do what they are doing deliberately. It's the fault of immigrants, of skivers and shirkers, of benefit scroungers. It must be because that is what they are constantly being told by the papers and by the government and people like UKIP. Finally, I hope you took note of what we were told in the budget, that the squeeze on working people, people on benefits, the disabled etc. is about to get much worse. If we in Scotland cannot do better than this then I will definitely give up. You can change things, you have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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