What Tory cuts did!

They cut the schools, the NHS, councils and mental health services. Once we had youth clubs, carers and preventative care. Once we had dentists.

Now we have potholes, aimless kiids, more addicts, mentally ill people in prison and roaming the streets, massive waiting lists and NO support for the vulnerable.

But the wealthy are a lot richer!

Now the Tory media is turning on Labour and glossing over Tory corruption!!

Don’t allow yourself to be conned by the greedy wealthy! They never have enough and they don’t give a jot about us.

So here we are talking about cuts and tax rises to the tune of £40 billion when these Tories have Splaffed three times that amount up the wall!!

Tax rises and public service cuts really hurt ordinary people!! They are trying to tell us that it’s due to global events out of our control but it isn’t! It’s due to Brexit and a mismanagement of Covid. They’ve wasted billions – giving it away to their chums, wasting it!! Then there’s Brexit which has broken the economy, put prices up substantially and has cost us an arm and leg – now they’re going for the kidneys!! Brexit has already cost us a £100 billion!! So much for those lies about Brexit dividends, imaginary trade deals and sunny uplands. Where’s the accountability?? Why aren’t these robbers and thieves locked up?? Why is yet another of those lying Brexiteers, who have so damaged this country, now the PM – to feather his nest even more?

When are we going to get some sense back and get ourselves back in the SINGLE MARKET????

The cost of voting Tory is destroying this country!! These aren’t really Tories at all – they’re a bunch of populist profiteers who have kicked the true Tories out! (And the true Tories were bad enough!!)

Poetry – Death by a thousand cuts

Death by a thousand cuts

Driving out the immigrants.

Kicking out the nurses.

Dumping all the doctors.

Counting all the hearses.

Not needing the carers

Sneering at low pay

Bin men and veggie pickers

Sent on their way.

Giving all the tax cuts

To wealthy corporations

Hammering public servants

Right across the nation.

Inviting private companies

In a dive to the bottom

Hens come home to roost

Whole system’s rotten!

Opher – 22.4.2020

The stupidity of Brexit, the fear of immigrants, the hostile environment – it’s all driven away nurses, doctors, carers, vegetable pickers, drivers and shelf-stackers – all the people we now realise we really need.

Ten years of Tory austerity running down the NHS, starving public services, while giving away tax cuts to the wealthy.

Now we see the stupidity of running down the NHS and driving all those people away. It turns out that the low-paid and public servants are highly valued members of society!

Poetry – Cuts  Cuts  Cuts

Cuts  Cuts  Cuts

Cuts  Cuts  Cuts

                The infrastructure of society

                                Slowly eroded;

Transformed

                Into a profit-making

                                Business

Providing

                Wealth

                                For the elite.

Waves crash against the cliffs.

Sand blows against the rock.

Acid eats the substrate.

Cuts

                In education

Cuts

                In the NHS

Cuts

                In the police

Cuts

                In Social Services

Cuts

                In the Military

Cuts

                In Youth Services

The bedrock of society

                Is gradually

                                Dissolved

The emaciated carcass

                Is paraded

                                For sale.

Opher – 3.3.2022

Steadily, over the course of these last twelve years, the Tories have been dismantling the public services, running them down, depriving them of cash and selling them off piece by piece for profit.

Tax cuts and bungs for the wealthy. Life is all about profits. There are the haves and the have nots. Only money-makers are worthy. Everyone else is a parasite.

Private health care. Private dentistry. Private education. Private security.

Those who can afford it receive the best of care.

Those without the cash…………………..

Spelling – Protecting the language!

Rules are rules (except when they apply to Tories!)

Running Down the NHS – Omicron!!

Chris Riddell sums it up. When you’ve spent twelve years running down public services, cutting education and the NHS, selling it off to the Yanks, creating artificial ‘Hostile Environments’ that drive competent nurses, teachers and carers away, then experience an entirely predictable (yes the Pandemic was predicted!) crisis you need a thorough kicking in the polls.

The Tories have devastated the NHS. What is left is valiantly straining every sinew to deal with the Omicron and is being overwhelmed!!

Who do we blame???

The NHS – Just a reminder – Safe In Their Hands.

Tory Cuts.

Tory cuts – but with the addition of a single n it describes them perfectly.

Headteachers march on Downing Street to protest Tory Education cuts!

In an unprecedented move Headteachers from all over the country are marching on Downing Street to protest the terrible effects of continual Tory Cuts.

If I was still working I’d certainly be marching with them!

An 8% cut in the funding for each child has resulted in larger class sizes, a loss of support staff and cuts in teaching staff. The affect on schools is major.

Tory Lies try to obfuscate. They claim they are spending more on education. Yes they are but inflation means than in real terms there are big cuts! On top of that a lot of the budget is being wasted on silly Tory stupidities – like Free Schools, Grammar Schools, Religious Schools and Academies.

We’ve already had teachers pay and pensions slashed and their workload increased dramatically. They are leaving in droves.

Education is the future of our country. To shortchange our kids is appalling.

Do the Tories only care about the Public Schools and the elite? Or are they willing to give kids from poor backgrounds a fair chance?

This current protest really shows the strength of feeling. This is no union action. This is a spontaneous action from grassroots Headteachers.

They have had enough of Tory decimation of public services!

They know how bad things have got!

They think our kids are worth better!

Education is in crisis!

Corbyn is Right!! What we need is nationalisation of the Railways, Greater equality and caps on pay for the fat-cats and proper funding of public services – Nurses, Teachers and Social Workers!

This Tory government is getting away with murder! They are making the poorest pay for the austerity, creating austerity through a poorly performing economy and generating inequality through tax breaks for the rich.

The railways, NHS and Schools are a mess. Underfunding and creeping privatisation are a scandal.

The national debt is out of control and has never been bigger.

The rich have never had it so good!

They are out of their depth with Brexit and being run by a minority of the most heinous politicians – Fox, Rees Mogg, Davies and Duncan Smith.

Something has to happen!