It's moving towards a kind of Daily Mail fantasy land, in which there are peedos and brown-skinned terrorists everywhere, simultaneously wanting to live their lives taking advantage of the country, and also destroy it.
I see my tax bill going down, knowing that the few hundred quid extra I have per year (which is basically lost in the financial noise for me - meaningless) means that somewhere someone who really needed that money or the service it paid for is now being fucked over. I don't even know who; Cameron and chums (I go sailing sometimes with a chap who used to share a house with Dave Cameron; apparently he was a self-entitled tosser then as well) are fucking poor people over on my behalf, presumably thinking that this is what I want. Or maybe they don't even think it's what I want; maybe they're on some bizarre Randian kick, living in the Westminster bubble in which poor people simply don't deserve any help, and this is some kind of moral crusade from their messed-up Westminster bubble. The benefit to me; zero. The cost to the people at the bottom; devastating.
I see our "leaders" acting as absolute cowards; these are the people who should be inspiring us, but instead they rush to surrender our freedoms as fast as they can. Again, presumably because the Daily Mail tells them that this is what we want. The other lot aren't any better. Remember when Harman wanted to introduce compulsory ID cards? She had a long record of voting in favour of more government power and fewer civil liberties. Intellectual and moral cowards, the lot of them.
This is what I struggle with. Are they evil, blind, or both? The Conservatives are firmly in power now. Labour, the Lib Dems and even UKIP have been neutered. Corbyn is not going to lead Labour to victory in 2020.
You would think that they could relax. They no longer need to pander to the tabloids. If they liked, they could dismantle the media and rebuild it in their image. They could build a gigantic statue of Theresa May. They could go to war. The potential for evil doings is endless.
Instead they spend their time fucking over disabled people. I mean... why? What's in it for them?
While there has been a lot of bad news in this area, and a lot of nonsensical lawmaking, there has also been a lot of internet hysteria over very little.
We have problems. It's not a police state (yet) any more than the US or other western nations.
> "So we can probably expect a Tory gov for a long time. Not that Blairs labour were much better..."
I beg to differ. I was no fan of Blair, but the current Tory government is absolutely blatant in its disregard for public service. Here's the latest example, from earlier today...
"Heartless Iain Duncan Smith today claimed people thanked him for taking their benefits away.
He was accused of "losing the plot" after making a string of increasingly bizarre claims about his department's cruel benefit sanctions regime.
The Tory Work and Pensions secretary said 75% of people who have had their benefits stopped under his department's cruel sanctions regime said it helped them "focus and get on."
A spokesperson for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was not immediately able to back up Mr Duncan Smith's claim.
But the sister of ex-soldier David Clapson, who died starving and penniless after having his benefits stopped said: "I don't think my brother said it had helped him get on.""
P.S. I know the Mirror isn't the best news source, but in this case the evidence is pretty clear.
