I currently have a bad feeling and I am stocking up on metaphorical candles again.
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We have the disabled and their carers setting up groups for support and lobbying purposes as they become more and more demonised by this government and the right-wing press.
The modern day equivalent of the national front,the EDL are attacking Muslims instead of the Jewish people they went after in the seventies.In the meantime disaffected Muslim youth are turning to extremist groups for a sense of belonging and identity and strangely some Jewish people are turning to the EDL for comfort.
It would seem some members of the conservative party consider street protests may get out of hand again soon too,Steve O'Connell a member of the London Assembly for Croydon and Sutton and a councillor in the London Borough of Croydon and one of the best paid reckons we should ban protests in the capital to save money.
The unemployed are being punished for not having a job by having their meagre poverty line welfare cut after a year of unemployment whilst the numbers of unemployed seem set to rise dramatically.
In the meantime we are again letting the bankers off by cutting the levy on banks' balance sheets.
Of course our students haven't had much rioting practise so aren't too good at it,hence the need for nine papers to have just one photo on their front pages ,the funniest though is that most of them show one rioter and two dozen photographers egging him on.
Then we have the farce that is currently our law,from the twitter joke trial to libel idiocy,no wonder everyone is angry/confused/worried about the future.
On a lighter note,whatever is wrong with me seems to be on the wane at the moment,fingers crossed it doesn't come back,I have my brain-scan due on the 24th so won't know anything until well after that.We are also waiting patiently for the arrival of a new grandchild and sister to our Poppy.
The images above are from here.
2 comments:
I am quite pleased to see the students protesting. They aren't really a protesting generation, are they? Banning protests from the capital? Sounds like the Chinese style of Democracy. And anyway, can you really ban a protest? You can make it illegal, you can inflict penalties on the people who do it, but if the people start to march, I don't think banning them will stop it.
I think we can certainly expect a Winter of Discontent.
Glad you are feeling better and looking forward to photos of the new babe
So, the new regime will mean redundancies but, if you are out of work don't expect to live off benefits and if you live in a council house and you are claiming benefits, don't expect us to pay your rent, you'll have to go and live where no one else wants to live because you won't be able to afford to live anywhere else and once you have been moved to the middle of nowhere, you had better find a job because, you won't be able to live off benefits .....
Is this making sense to anyone?
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