It seems we’ve got a global shortage of HGV
A global shortage of power
A global shortage of skilled workers
A global shortage of many food items
A global shortage of turkeys.
A global shortage of money
Nothing to do with Brexit (despite the fact that in this time of global shortage nobody else seems to be suffering like us)
Personally I think we’ve got a national shortage of truth.
It’s a joke – except it’s peoples’ lives.
Why isn’t Starmer, Labour and the media challenging the Tory lies??? Why aren’t the population up in arms??
All down the drain
They say things cannot be worse
But I say they can.
Look around the world!
We are the 5th largest economy
Aspiring to be the 10th.
We’re putting holes in our own buckets
To watch the cash leak away.
Cash for school.
Cash for hospitals.
Cash for police.
Cash for councils.
All down the drain.
Opher 29.11.2018
The major problem with the country is that the wealth is all being siphoned off to the top end with their multimillion pound bonuses.
We are taking from the poor, from the public services, to give to the rich.
But matters are made worse when we deliberately do things that worsen the economy – particularly when there is no need.
But then we no longer believe what any of the experts say, do we?
They said it would all go pear-shaped after the referendum. Errr – it did. The pound dived (down 15%) making things more expensive, the economy has performed the worst in Europe and austerity rules.
Brexit is a self-inflicted wound.
Here’s to the end of austerity
Here’s to the end of austerity.
They say we’ve had enough.
We were all in it together
But only the poor have found it tough.
They took from the schools and the NHS
But gave to the captains of industry.
The executives all got their bonuses
But there was none left for you and me.
They’ve had enough of cutting
There’s nothing left to slash.
They’ve ravaged every service
And stolen all the cash.
Police and nurses join the teachers
All trying to get by
Under the yoke of austerity;
Under its blue Tory sky.
Austerity has decimated our country
And has brought no end of tears.
I’ll be glad to see the end of this dogma
But we have to wait three more years!
Opher 4.10.2018
I watched the Tory conference as they ripped each other apart. It was all about Brexit. You wouldn’t believe that the country was falling apart.
Mrs May’s big announcement was that austerity was coming to an end – except we’ll have to wait three years – until we get close to the next election.
Until then they’ll continue slashing school budgets, privatising the Health Service and putting the poor into low pay jobs.
We’ve got a debt to service!
But it’s OK – the wealthy deserve their tax cuts and we don’t want to block the tax avoidance schemes, do we?
Robbing
Robbing from the schools
Robbing from the poor
Robbing from the nurses
Wicked to the core!
Opher 16.9.2018
There’s a big hole where all our money went. It’s a big hole created by reckless greed. It’s a big hole dug out with bonuses and fat-cat pay packets. It’s a big hole that they are filling in with nurses, teachers, police, soldiers, social workers and the down and out!
I know what I’d like to shove in that hole!
Floundering in the Wake
We flounder in their wake from this austerity
Inflicted by politicians on you and them and me –
Except for all the bankers immune to the disease
Still necking back the champagne and living lives of ease.
We’re all in this together – except the one percent!
They’re a law unto themselves for which we all lament.
One day we will rise up and depose them from their thrones –
The greedy and the selfish who can’t hear people’s moans.
They are the ones who cause this misery
Grabbing all the wealth from her, and you and me!
In the midst of this madness with the destruction of our schools
The politicians party and treat us all like fools.
They’re still necking back their champagne and driving in their cars
Selling subprime mortgages from here to there to Mars.
They do not give a damn if the people cannot pay
As long as they have their fat bonuses to keep their blues at bay.
They have their private services to provide an ample buffer
And when it all goes tits up they know it’s not them who’ll suffer!
Opher 16.9.2018
It irks me that the politicians decided who should pay for the crash they created – not them who deregulated and gave the bankers freedom to go mad, not the bankers who created the crash with their greed, not the top 1% who benefitted from the bonanza, but us – the innocent ordinary people. We are the ones to pay. Our pay is slashed and frozen, our pensions are reduced, our public services are decimated with cuts – because the country cannot afford it. But we can afford the fat bonuses for the wealthy, tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations; we can afford big wage increases in the boardrooms and we still do not address the massive tax evasion schemes, or to force the huge megacompanies like Amazon to pay their fair share.
There is one rule for the rich and quite another for us, so the inequality gap opens into a yawning chasm and is filled with lies. Meanwhile, hidden behind the shroud of Brexit, the country falls apart, public services decay, people go hungry, law and order breaks down. But safe behind their gated communities, with their private healthcare and education, the elite are immune.
Mealy-mouthed hypocrites!! They spout nice words and clap but don’t give a shit! They should try living on £21,000!!
They let them work in dangerous front line conditions.
They let them safe their life and then turn round and laugh in their faces.
All the key workers are now seeing their pay frozen once again. After a decade of pointless Tory austerity the key workers are being shat on again.
I bet the bankers, who sat on the side-lines and made a killing, are going to be getting their multimillion pound bonuses!!!
Tory policy is simple – they attempt to keep wages and public costs down to a minimum and give tax breaks to the rich. It has been that way ever since the party was created by the rich and wealthy. They are called Conservatives because they wish to maintain the status quo where the poor are kept poor and the rich maximise their profits.
That is why they were called the Nasty Party. They rob from the poor to give to the rich.
They have used the financial crisis as an excuse to follow a hardline policy of austerity. Under the guise of ‘We’re all in this together’ they froze public servants pay, cut services causing widespread job losses, set up a minimum wage ‘gig’ economy, slashed benefits for the disabled and poor and reduced corporation tax and income tax for the rich. While those at the bottom struggle to survive those at the top have doubled their already substantial incomes.
Fairness? No callous lying stupidity. We are still, in the face of all evidence, being told that they represent the working people. Liars.
Having now had seven years of this terrible policy, with no end in sight for the deficit, we are now in a situation where our public services are crumbling:
Crime is rising steeply, with violent crime steepest of all.
Prisons are rioting.
The NHS is missing every target going and struggling to cope.
Welfare is in crisis with huge increases in rough sleepers and food banks, suicides and despair.
Schools are in crisis with teachers leaving in droves, a curriculum that is stifling, and an endless stream of gimmicks designed to hide the reality.
How much more of this senseless, uncaring callousness can we take?
Let’s get Corbyn in and sort the mess out!
