Austerity
Austerity has done for me; we’ve never had it so bad.
With food banks and poverty, only the rich feel glad.
Capitalism creates inequality as the country’s wealth is drained
To off-shore tax havens oversea, as social cohesion’s strained.
The government is overseeing a system that is corrupt
The wealthy have brought it into being, slowly, not abrupt.
But they saw themselves re-elected, despite all that they have done.
Leaving the country so dejected while they cavort and have their fun.
A number directly profited from the mayhem they have sown.
They should have muzzles fitted and never be allowed out alone!
Opher – 26.2.2020
It says it all for me. We have created such inequality that in one of the richest countries on the planet we have food banks, homelessness and zero-hours workers on basic pay, while the wealthy buy yachts, penthouses and .
The USA is even worse. There is no safety net. Those that don’t make it are discarded as jetsam.
What a sad, uncaring world we are creating.
The Tories bring in austerity for the poor, fleece the public services, so that they can give tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations.
The rich get richer and the poor end up starving.
Something stinks.
Who Needs them?
Doctors and police
Nurses and teachers-
Whining gits,
Moaners and leachers.
Who needs them?
Who really cares?
We’ve got ours.
They’ve got theirs.
Opher 20.9.2018
It is the wealthy who make the laws, who run the system. They have their private schooling and private healthcare and live in their gated communities with security to keep them safe.
They resent every penny spent on public services. It’s wasted money. They screw their noses up when all those parasites whinge about their salaries or the fact that the institutions are falling to bits. Who cares? Who needs them?
Austerity for the Poor
Cuts for the nurses.
Cuts for the police.
Cuts in welfare
And those caught underneath.
Bonuses for the bankers,
The profiteers,
The greedy tycoons
And those with sharks teeth.
Not matter how they dress it up
We all know what it’s for –
Free gifts for the wealthy;
Austerity for the poor!
It doesn’t take a genius,
Or the art of prophecy.
It’s always been thus;
That’s Tory policy.
17.6.2021
The Tories were set up to look after the interests of the wealthy. That is what they have been successfully doing since 1834.
They make no end of promises, and use all manner of fear tactics and propaganda, but in the end it is always the same.
The wolf has not changed its spots and the fleece is what they do to the poor.
They cut public services, cut welfare and give tax breaks to the wealthy.
They always fail to block up the tax loopholes.
The pandemic has highlighted the policy.
They have doled out massive dollops of tax-payers money to cronies – the wealthy Tory donors – multimillion contracts, fees for fixers, massive salaries for little outcome. At the same time they have cut welfare, cut pay for teachers, police, doctors, nurses and all those on poor pay!!
Austerity for the poor – opulence for the wealthy.
The deserving and the undeserving.
The bastards!!
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I was extremely heartened to know that we have had a multimillion pound defence review. It is great that this government has sourced this review out to a private company and they, after much expenditure and investigation, have come up with some detailed findings that the government plans on implementing. After all we wouldn’t trust the government or civil servants to do that, would we?
This makes me feel a lot safer. Now I can sleep easy knowing that we are in safe hands.
The three major findings were:
It left me pondering.
I thought we were broke. We don’t have money for doctors, nurses, police, teachers or social workers. We can only afford low pay, zero hours contracts and temporary posts. We are cutting benefits from the poorest in the country.
So where is this huge sum of money coming from? Apart from the £41 billion they were a little unclear on how many more billion the rest was going to cost. Are we talking £60 billion? That would buy quite a few teachers and nurses! Where could they get such a large sum?
Are they proposing to claw it back from the bankers who last year received their big tax cuts so their bonuses do not suffer as much?
Perhaps instead of fleecing the poor they are going to use them as target practice and kill two birds with one stone?
Phew. I’m so glad I don’t have to make these difficult decisions It must worry David dreadfully. But anyway, it is good to know that the millions spent on the review was not money wasted. We have a detailed report to tell us what needs doing. I’m sure they’ll find the tens of billions somewhere.
I think the report suggested they sell off a bit of land. That should do it!
