So Tories are so toxic due to their gross corruption and incompetence that they’ve decided to reform in Reform – great name!
All they really needed to do was bring in the odious, smarmy Poundland Trump Farage and change the name. A damn sight quicker than all this shilly-shallying about.
Same greed, same lies, same incompetence, same corruption.
After their disastrous 14 years in which they broke Britain, created a disastrous Brexit (for which they take no responsibility), were the most corrupt bunch of exploiters with their VIP lanes and fingers in the pie contracts, ruined the public services, partied and laughed at everyone, handled covid like buffoons and crashed the economy. Now all the WORST elements are congealing around Farage like phlegm in your soup!
Makes me sick!
Farage is a poundland Trump who’ll have ICE on the streets while lining his pockets.
Has the world gone nuts?
Scapegoating immigrants, cuts for the plebs, tax breaks for the wealthy and the glorification of greed. Who will come out on top?
I’m a socialist. I want a fair society where everyone enjoys a good standard of living, everyone has a home, and nobody stuffs away billions in offshore tax havens. I want a land with great education, a health system that works for everyone and great infrastructure. I don’t mind paying taxes if it goes to the right things. I don’t want the Tory capitalist dream of tax cuts, tax havens and cuts to public services and welfare. I don’t want poverty alongside opulence! The wealthy should pay more!
I don’t want to live in a greedy land like the USA with selfish, greedy billionaires like Musk, Gates and Trump want more and more and are prepared to push millions into extreme poverty to get it! I think that’s immoral!
I am quite happy for the right-wingers to destroy each other!
The Right slug it out over a miniscule membership. Who cares??
Semi-Bad and the Barrage. Elite products of the establishment – two millionaire bankers! Pretending to represent the people. Coming from privilege and representing the wealthy. Products of elitist thinking.
Who cares what these hypocrites get up to?
My elder son has been in the NHS for twenty-five years. He’s witnessed the decline. The NHS is so much on its knees it is a pale shadow of what it should be. No wonder they are all striking. They are understaffed, overworked and underpaid.
Underfunding
Underfunding is at the heart of the problem. Despite lies and promises the money has never been put in. The Brexit lie of £350 million a week was a joke and a poke in the eye for hard-working staff. Johnson simply lied. There was no huge Brexit dividend. Indeed, the whole Brexit fiasco has hit the NHS hardest of all. Not only did they not put proper funding in, they also drove all the staff away and cut off a key source of overseas staff that were propping the system up.
The truth is that the government has not put in the percentage of GDP necessary to provide an excellent health service.
Johnson stood on the steps of Downing Street and said he was raising taxes to solve the ‘Care’ situation once and for all. He didn’t. He just raised taxes for them to give away to their chums.
Cuts
Thirteen years of continual cuts have reduced the service to the bone. Equipment and buildings are outdated and decaying.
Wage Cuts.
All the staff from Doctors and Nurses to cleaners, porters and ambulance drivers have suffered thirteen years of cuts. Their wages are now so low that they can’t attract staff in, are drastically understaffed. Then there’s the quality of the staff they do attract. Then there’s the burn-out on the dedicated staff who stay.
It’s tragic.
Now we don’t get cheap labour from the EU because of Brexit the cracks are really showing.
Why would staff work in the NHS when they can earn more in Tescos? Why would doctors and nurses work in Britain when they can double their salary by moving to Australia?
We’re in a crisis of the Tories making that has suddenly come to light because of the Cost of Living Crisis (another crisis created by Tory policies – rather than have proper windfall taxes on power, oil and banks ludicrous profits they prefer the workers to pay!).
All staff are now burned out, overworked and fed up.
One minute we’re all banging pans for them; the next minute they are being taken to court and vilified.
Creeping Privatisation
Not many people realise that GP services are no longer in the NHS. Then there’s Dentists. All the time people are being shunted into private services and have to pay because waiting lists are too long. You get the same surgeon and the same hospital but you jump the queue. How can that be right?
More and more American firms are sneaking in the back door offering services at a price.
The fear is that the Tories really want the NHS to fail so they can sell it off to the American pharmaceuticals. This is what they have done to Gas, Electricity, British Rail, Postal Services and Water. Now they are owned by foreigners, the profits go abroad, the service is poor, the workers are overworked and underpaid and we pay through the nose. Short-term gain and long-term loss. Selling Britain by the penny!
It’s so stupid! The profits used to come back to the British people! It’s what the Tories did with council housing – sold it off for a song and created a housing crisis further down the line. They cause the crisis and blame others.
Fascism
Definitions — Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition,
While fascism is defined as a product of the far-right it is just as evident in the far-left.
For me, fascism is associated with arrogance, racism and extreme authoritarian control. It divides and labels people. It promotes one group of people above others (even within nations) and sets up mechanisms for suppression and oppression.
Fascism is hierarchical. It sets up a powerful elite and establishes a means of crushing opposition, controlling the people and pumping out propaganda. It runs on fear and deploys secret police, torture and death.
There is no real difference between the way far-right Nazi parties, such as Hitler, Mussolini and Franco operated to that of far-left organisations such as with Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. They all worked on creating division, exterminating enemies, using fear, deploying propaganda, suppressing all opposition and suppressing the population.
We still operate tribally. We like to elect ‘strong’ leaders who put forward policies in black and white. These leaders often appear strong because they are psychopaths or sociopaths.
Much as school bullies attract sycophantic groups of henchmen and henchwomen who they use to help exert their power, fascist politicians attract both henchmen and followers who put their policies into action.
One has to wonder at the mentality of these people. One can see the attraction for those high up but there are similar benefits for those further down the organisation. They are part of the organisation. They have power over others. They are safe, rewarded and have power. Hence the secret police, the torturers, the executioners, the propagandists, the spokespeople, troops and their families feel superior and secure.
Fascism seems to be the default state for human politics. We see democracies such as the present-day USA and UK drifting towards it with Trump and Johnson. It is evident in Russia, with Putin, In China, North Korea and Brazil.
Fascism exists in many forms and can be an insidious force infiltrating the most benign governments. The Johnson government is showing fascistic tendencies – arrogance and superiority, control of the media, suppression of opposition, creation of division, ignoring of the law, move towards a one-party state.
We have to be forever vigilant.
