A laugh a minute
The Sunday and Saturday Telegraph are always a joy to read these days, the lack of self awareness, the denials of reality, the sad fantasies about what is achievable, the cause of the country’s problems and the way ahead.
At the moment the government and its commentariat supporters are desperately trying to whip up a storm of indignation about those who are too ill to work, with the obvious solution that their benefits should be cut further. Because the way to get the ill back to work is to increase their levels of malnutrition.
Nowhere in the articles I read was there any acknowledgement that if you run down the HNS so that millions are waiting years for treatment, it shows up in the jobless figures. Nor, that if you don’t give people enough benefits to feed themselves or their children then they will develop long term health problems. Nor that if you force down wages and protections at work you end up with an underclass of people with severe anxiety and depression and other mental problems.
No, apparently they are all just lazy shirkers, enabled by woke doctors who sign them off work at the drop of a hat.
Oh, and the obvious solution is a “real” Tory government, unlike the last 14 years which have apparently been nothing but a left wing farce with policies that Labour would support.
Seriously?
Austerity, Brexit, trickle-down economics, benefits slashed, unions constrained, the NHS starved of funds, Trussenomics; all Labour policies?
The last one, Trussenomics, is the real worry because these nutters not just want to try it again, they truly believe it is the ONLY way ahead.
I suppose if you have had 14 years to run free and experiment on a whole country with your ideologically driven madness and you now see the results all around you, then a true believer has to believe that it was betrayed or undermined on purpose.
But that means you have to ignore the hungry children and the desperate parents, the pot holes and the bankrupt councils, the crumbling schools and the food banks and really think what we need is more of the same.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media
HNS the healthy national service?
Jeez, Jonty, you have a wonderful way of putting things - that makes everything so fucking depressing. Impossible to disagree but stated so starkly it’s one hell of a dismal picture. Keep up the good work!