The reality of Privatisation!

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Once upon a time we all owned our water, gas, electricity, railways and post office. Then Margaret Thatcher had a great idea. She thought she could sell everything at a knock down price and pocket the money.

Once upon a time we paid for our services and the profits went to create better services or went back to us.

Once upon a time we controlled what the CEOs were paid!

Once upon a time we were in charge!

Now the companies are run by foreign investors!

Now the prices have gone through the roof.

Now, instead of investing, the money goes to overpaid CEOs and their ridiculous multimillion bonuses and foreign investors!

Thames Water is a good example. We are paying over the top to make people very rich! We get a far worse service for a lot more!

The dilemma for the new government!

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Labour has inherited a right mess here and there aren’t any easy fixes. The Tories have really broken Britain and left a terrible mess. I reckon we’re looking at a decade at least to fix this mess.

a. The Economy is flat-lining – Brexit is costing us £100 billion a year. Investment has dried up. There is no money.

b. Public Services are broken. There isn’t a public service that’s in a good shape – NHS, Schools, Prisons, Courts, Youth Service, Carers, Police, Councils – everything is in crisis. We have shortages of staff, cuts in funding, poor buildings and morale through the floor. Fourteen years of robbery; fourteen years of cuts, fourteen years of austerity, fourteen years of pay restraint (pay cuts), have brought all the services to their knees. The Tories have been systematically robbing public services to give to the wealthy – VIP lanes, CEO pay, tax loopholes, huge wastage during covid, crazy expensive covid schemes, cash for donors…… There aren’t enough Dentists, Doctors, Nurses, Teachers, Carers, Prison Officers, Police, Army or Council Workers. We have potholes, expensive crap care, an NHS on its knees, impossibility of getting a dentist or doctor’s appointment, no support staff, creaking buildings, smallest army ever…….

c. Privatised Industries Not Working – all the national industries that the Tories privatised – Gas, Electricity, Rail, Water, Post Office – are underperforming, putting prices up to ridiculous levels, and paying ridiculous salaries to CEOs and bonuses, and huge sums to investors (mostly abroad). We have sewage in the water, eye-watering bills, cost of postage at ridiculous levels, rail fares and services at ridiculous levels and employees on poor pay.

d. Worker’s Pay – pay has been squeezed – unless you happen to be a Tory donor, CEO or wealthy Tory. Pay is not keeping up with costs.

e. Cost of Living Crisis – unless you are a Tory MP (ex MP), with fingers in many pies and an income in millions, you cannot find the money for increases in food, gas, electricity, petrol, rail, water, internet, TV and life. That is why Food Banks are the only things that are working.

f. Levelling Up – whole regions of the country have been left to rot. All that bluster from Johnson was bluster and lies.

The Tories have been lining their own pockets at our expense!!

How on earth is an incoming government supposed to deal with this mess???

Never been wrong

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Never been wrong

I asked Liz Truss if she’s ever been wrong.

                                She smirked like a demented twerp

With a face like King Kong

                And slunk off to Trump

                                To sing his narcissistic song.

She said ‘I’ll be back! And it won’t be long!’

So I asked Rees-Mogg how does it feel?

                                He looked down his nose

As if looks could kill.

                And casually burnt

A hundred thousand pound bill.

Said he’d have me roasted on a public school grill!

Well the Tory Party’s over

                There’s vomit on the floor.

All the xenophobic bastards

                Have been kicked right out the door.

They’re busy stuffing hay in lofts

                So they’ll never be poor.

I look for justice

                What is it for?

Should all be held accountable?

                To settle up the score!

But there’s a great reckoning coming

                They’ll see what’s in store!

They’ll be mighty retribution

                Complete with death and gore.

I can hear the four horsemen coming

                To sing the Armageddon roar.

Opher 5.7.2024

Ousted!! Off to make their millions!

They left us with the mess!

Snouts in the trough

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Snouts in the trough

Standing in the ruins of a fourteen-year battleground;

                Smouldering public services and food banks all around.

A cost of living crisis while the wealthy dine in style

                Funnelling their excess profits to the Cayman Isles.

We’ve had VIP lanes, parties and useless PPE

                As Tory donors pocket millions with chortles of great glee.

More migrants than ever since Brexit cost us dear

                As the greedy make a killing – the reason is quite clear.

Snouts in the trough

                Snouts in the trough

Greed rules the Tories –

                All hay in the loft.

Cash for questions and ‘thinning of the herd’

                ‘Sacrifice the elderly’ from that shambolic nerd.

Lying is second nature as he rides his bus.

                Placing the economy in the hands of stupid Liz Truss.

‘All in it together’ was the lying battle cry.

                Robbing from the poor and let the aged die.

Breaking the schools, courts and the NHS.

                What cost of living crisis? They loudly profess!

Snouts in the trough

                Snouts in the trough

Greed rules the Tories –

                All hay in the loft.

Living through wage stagnation swimming through turds,

                Worst trade in a hundred years but mark my words

Corporation tax is down; the rich pay far far less

                A deficit of three trillion that ‘we’ll’ have to address.

Austerity and cuts were our reward for work

                While one hundred and fifty new billionaires process their latest perk

Multimillion pound bonuses and eye-watering salaries –

                The poor luvvies need it all to pay those high school fees.

Snouts in the trough

                Snouts in the trough

Greed rules the Tories –

                All hay in the loft.

Opher – 4.7.2024

Well today is Election Day. We’ll see if the people have been fooled again. Democracy is in the hands of the stupid, gullible and tribal.

For fourteen years the Tories have been robbing the poor and cutting public services so they could give to the rich. We’ve gone from 29 billionaires to 177 billionaires while the poor cower in the cold, not able to afford the energy and relying on food banks to stay alive.

Corporation taxes are down and oil companies are pocketing billions.

Our rivers are full of sewage while billions are siphoned off to foreign investors. Tory donors, like Lady Mone and Hancock’s landlord, pocket millions for useless PPE that has to be dumped. The VIP lanes farmed out contracts to Tories and bypassed the companies who could do the job.

Brexit is a disaster. They lied!!

Nobody is accountable.

Cameron, May and Johnson are busy earning millions while Britain is broken!

Jonathan Pie – Election Special – The Conservatives

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Play this before you vote!! 14 years of Conservative chaos, greed, ineptitude, austerity and food banks. While the rich get hugely richer!!

(1) 2024 Election Specials. 4. The Conservatives – YouTube

The Lying, Greedy, Selfish, Inept people who broke Britain!

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Drowning in their own Greed!

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The greedy, inept and corrupt are counting on complacency!

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I’m taking no chances!! I’m voting tactically! I want the greedy, corrupt and useless out of government! Oust a greedy Tory!!

The State of the Nation

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For fourteen years they’ve knocked the stuffing out of Britain!! They’ve lowered wages, put up prices, sold off the cheap housing, hocked the country, fed the wealthy, starved the poor, destroyed public services, created a cost of living crisis, disenfranchised the young, created a culture of a few winners and lots of losers, run the country for short-term greed and profit. We now run on fear and despair. The country is there just for the rich. The rest of us can work harder to give them more!

I wonder why mental illness has gone downhill?

Tories Bankrupt the Country!!

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Thirteen Years of corruption and incompetence, nasty policies and the lunacy of the far-right ERG, has bankrupt the country! We’re living in Broken Britain!!

The Tories perhaps should not have sold everything off to their wealthy chums and foreign investors? They privatised everything so the rich could get richer and we pay more! Not nothing works!

Perhaps they shouldn’t have given so much away to their rich chums through those VIP lanes, stupid contracts and absurd salaries?

Perhaps they should not have cut all our public services to the bone? Now the NHS, Schools, Councils, Police, Army, Youth Services, Libraries are all failing!!

Perhaps they shouldn’t have brought in a stupid Tory Brexit costing us £100 Billion a year so we haven’t got any money to put things right? No wonder we can’t afford our public services!

Perhaps they should have plugged all those tax scams the wealthy use to avoid paying taxes? They take their millions from bonuses and ridiculous levels of pay off-shore using semi-legal schemes and pay less taxes than a nurse!

Perhaps they shouldn’t have brought in a decade plus of austerity so that all of us have become poorer and poorer while the politicians, CEOs, bankers and investors rake in their millions?

Perhaps they shouldn’t be cutting taxes and should start addressing the ridiculous Cost of Living?

The only growth has been in the bank accounts of the wealthy- they’ve never had it so good! We’re paying for it!

Tory Party – formed by the wealthy to look after the interests of the wealthy!