Evening all,
One thing that did not come across as much as the massive levels of cuts that were being proposed in the emergency budget is the way that it is going to affect the most vulnerable members of our society. Of course, these include those who are unemployed and the disabled. It is the case sadly, that you are more likely to be one of the former if you come from the poorest areas of the country, particularly in these times of austerity that we are in.
No surprise, however as in previous Conservative administrations, (and before you start, do you genuinely think the Limp Dems have any power, then you are a fucking twat – that’s why I am a Labour party member now) – it has been the least represented in society who have been forced to take it up the jacksie when it has come to cuts. Whether that is cuts in public sector workers, or cuts in school buildings, hospitals or the Police, it will always be those members of society who rely on the essential services who will suffer.
As always.
Of all the measures in that emergency budget that has undermined the government's bare-faced claim to "fairness", the paring of unemployment benefit has to be the meanest cut of all. Jobseeker's allowance, to which unknowable crowds of people will be condemned if George Osborne's 25% public expenditure cuts are implemented, is already a pittance, impossible to live on.
People who have lost their jobs are shocked, when forced to sign on, to discover they are expected to eat, pay their bills, clothe themselves and get around – including for job interviews – on just £64.45 a week if they are over 25. For those under 25, weekly subsistence must be attained on just £51.85.
And there is this somewhat twisted idea, that some people who go on the dole have some form of wonderful lifestyle. Where the fuck do you get a cushy lifestyle on SIXTY QUID a week! Just wait until the gas and electric companies put up their charges by 30-40% this winter, which they will do and we shall see people starving and freezing in their homes and then those cunts in government and their traitorous friends propping them up can chuckle at the very same people whom they said that they would utmost protect dying in the cold this winter. Probably joining Ivan in hell.
Osborne's announcement that the rate at which benefits rise will decrease, by linking them to the consumer price index (CPI) rather than, as currently, the retail prices index (RPI), was actually set out by the Treasury under the heading "Fairness".
Talking about Fairness, what’s fucking fair about those who are under 25 to be getting less benefit? It’s been the case for fucking years, long before I had to take up the benefit. There is legislation to ensure that people don't get unfairly treated because of their age at work, so why is it acceptable for the government to deem young adults to be second class citizens? So much for Fairness.
Of course what would be fair is this, all Call Me Dave has to do is go to the banks they handed £1.2 TRILLION to and say WE WANT OUT MONEY BACK. If the banks go bankrupt, tough fucking shit, cuntflaps. The post office can easily take over from them for mortgages, loans, savings etc and the government can lower taxes for the workers when they make money from the interest on loans and mortgages that they have seized from the banks.
But of course, they are not going to do that to their friends. With the sheer level of cuts that are being proposed, and that sadistic misuse of the word "fair", the always ludicrous claim by Osborne and David Cameron, sons, both, of multimillionaires, that "we are all in this together", has irretrievably fallen away.
It is going to be an long, cold winter...
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