The first principle of government is that its primary function is the health, welfare and security of the people. The first principle of democracy is that a democratically elected assembly must be representative. For at least 40 years the British Parliament has been woefully incompetent with respect to both of those criteria. Ironically it is the least democratic and representative sector of British government, the House of Lords, that has intervened to protect the health and welfare of the largest part of the population. It is testimony to the cruelty and callousness of this British Tory government of aristocrats and millionaires that they have finally shamed the House of Lords into action, over measures that have been described by some of their lordships as terrifying, shameful, disgusting, and deeply worrying, to give a flavour of the opinions of the lords during their debate on the subject of the government's proposed cuts to tax credits.
For anyone outside the UK reading this, successive governments of all parties in Westminster have so deregulated the labour market and destroyed any power or influence wielded by trades unions through a succession of anti-union measures, that employers can literally do whatever they like to British workers and get away with it. It has been made as difficult as possible for any working person in the UK to take any form of industrial action to protect themselves and they have been effectively frozen out of the legal system as a result of the financial obstacles the Tories have implemented to prevent working people accessing the legal system. Remember, as I continually remind you, the Westminster Parliament will not cease until all working people in the UK are in a condition of slavery. As a result of this open class warfare, thanks to the appalling type of employers we have in the UK today enthusiastically encouraged by the Westminster criminals, millions of British workers do not get enough in wages to live on. To counter this, instead of holding employers to account, Westminster, at first under Labour, introduced the system of tax credits. What this does is supplement the income of someone who is in employment with a benefit. As a result, instead of requiring employers to be fair and just they have dragooned the taxpayer into subsidising people's wages and salaries. One of the reasons that Britain has had such a recession is that few people in work have any buying power and half of all the people who have to attend foodbanks to avoid starvation are in full-time employment. This is reality in modern Christian, democratic Great Britain. I am aware that readers from outside the UK will find this hard to accept but I encourage you to check it for yourself. Whilst the British lecture the rest of the world on human rights, democracy, the rule of law etc. they cheerfully abandon all of those concepts with respect to the governance of their own country. We had the spectacle today of a chief constable in England warning us of the danger of thought crime, and this is the United Kingdom in the 21st century, it genuinely beggars belief.
In their attempts to reduce the national debt, the Tories have targeted this benefit and have attempted to introduce measures that would see an estimated 3 million working people lose between £1,300 and £2,500 per annum. All independent forecasters have estimated that all of these people will be worse off to the extent that they will be literally unable to feed themselves or pay their rent or mortgage thus plunging them and their families into absolute poverty, and the evidence is so overwhelming that even the human filth in the Tory Party have stopped challenging the figures. One of the rays of light in this sorry saga is that things are getting so bad for so many people that the Tories lies and propaganda are being shown to be just that. One of the ironies of this situation is that the figures reveal that 37 Tory MPs will have more people punished by these measures in their constituencies than they had as a majority at the general election. So, when you hear of Tory MPs supporting the opposition to these measures do not for an instant imagine that they are decent people who are concerned for the poor. They are doing it purely out of a sense of self-interest in case they lose their seats at the next election. If they had any concern for people they would not be Tories. This is the situation that impelled the House of Lords to act.
It is technically correct when the Tories tell us that the House of Lords acted unconstitutionally as they are traditionally bound to a policy of non-intervention in money policies. However, the Tories lied through their teeth at the general election and gave categorical assurances that tax credits would not be the subject of cuts and interference. In addition, the democratic necessity of opposing tyrannical measures and blatant mendacity by the government must outweigh mere constitutional conventions. No government can claim any kind of democratic mandate if it transpires that it has been elected on the basis of a farrago of lies and deceit. Such conventions can only be valid when the lower house is acting constitutionally itself, and condemning millions of subjects to absolute poverty and the threat of starvation cannot be deemed constitutional even by the rancid imagination of a Tory. A government elected on a platform of lies that then proceeds to impoverish and wage war on the most vulnerable of its own citizens must accept that it has profoundly altered the political climate and accept that it, not only will be, but must be, challenged.
I finish this post with a reminder that the basis of the Tory agenda is the economic prerogatives of free market neoliberalism, a belief system that is both barbaric fraudulent. Never lose sight of the fact that the real guilty personnel are the proponents of the free market, the liars and fraudsters that constitute the world's elite. It is not the workers, the unemployed, people on benefits etc. that are destroying the world, it is the one percent who own fifty percent of the world's wealth and their vile spokespeople in the various governments around the world and those useful idiots in the media. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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