Communists probably. It amazes me that people think this Socialism can win an election in 2017. The world has moved on from this, the mines aren't open anymore. A lot of people don't consider themselves part of the proletariat. Blair was right on this issue, you can not win in the UK with this philosophy.
Cliff, the post which you have commented on was replying to my post and I'm repeating it here.
"Oh Alan - I'm really saying we - all of us - the voters, the people who are sickened to our stomach by the total shite that's churned out of Westminster year after balls-aching year, should signal to ALL faker "politicians" we've had one fucking big bellyful of "your game" because WE the ordinary Joes seem ALWAYS to get the butt of the outcome.
We need to tell the professional politicians who want to fuck with people's lives and destroy communities etc et fucking cetera "why don't you all go and play sixth form politicking and debating games where the outcomes DO NO HARM to REAL PEOPLE?
The more some "students of the game" - too many of us in all truth - re-state - that politics is a pragmatic long-view game and in so doing, prop up the far too long accepted bollocks which has become our accepted version of democracy - then such people ARE SUPPORTING the prolongation of the abusive and offensive political concept!!
Tell them to shove it until the people are given straight-talking people who will say it as it is - and NOT how these slimy con-merchants believe it has to be said.
I really gut-believe that amateur "afficionados" and serious, well-meaning interpreters of the dirty business of politicking do more bleeding harm than good. Smoke and mirrors is what we are served and I've fucking had a bellyful of it over the best part of 54 dirty stinking years."
Why Cliff does it amaze you when you only need to scan the stats for our country to see that the Tory interpretation of the success of Capitalism equates to a succession of policies that punish the people?
Stripping away OUR NHS - and it is ours as we have paid in all our lives!;
Cutting mental health funding to those who have no-one to help them.
Cutting vital support to our long-term chronic sick and disabled;
No housing provision or support unless you count cutting housing benefit payments to struggling families as "tough and necessary supporting medicine":
No social house-building provision to address the needs of a growing population;
Cutting social care funding to councils already over-burdened with an ageing population up and down the land;
Employing private agencies who are paid - and on an extremely aggressive reducing payments target-achievement basis! - for "managing" unemployment benefit claimants;
Under-funding provision for our national education - our citizens of the future!
Austerity rules the Tory minds - yet it was NEVER the fault of our people that the great banking scam imposed their swindling losses on the public purse.
Why do you leap to "communists" as being "the people" who are sick of it all? I am not a communist. My dad was a steel-worker 12 hour shifts 5 days a week with OT if he was "lucky" on a Sat morning.
However, we were all 6 of us raised to care for the well-being of others even when those others might be considered by some to be of little significanc e or "importance"to our society. We were taught to share what we possibly could to alleviate suffering. We were NEVER actively encouraged to increase anyone's suffering! We were raised to show love of community and when the hard times came, we all pitched in and did what we could for those worse off than us.
I equate my upbringing to a political education that makes me a socialist. Like my original posting above reflects, this atrocious apology for a democratic-elected government - this particular one the worst in my memory - has smarmied through a whole host of measures which have denied the great majority of our people access to a decent standard of living in artificially created "hard times". They're fond of saying we must live within our means as they unburden the extremely rich to the tune of billions of pounds of due taxation that now no longer needs to be paid. How noble!
I don't advocate an armed insurrection to change things. I advocate the premise that our people should be told the bloody truth and should demand it from their political leaders. If how we are governed doesn't deliver basic life-enhancing chances for all of our people, then crumbs from the rich man's table in the world's sixth richest nation will not plaster over the cracks that it demonstrably has failed - and is continuing to fail - our nation. It's not working. If it continues along this track, we as a people have a choice to make. We either continue meekly to suffer in silence until we are so cowed and subdued we simply throw in the towel until we shuffle off our mortal coil or we wake up and use our hard-earned electoral franchise to change it for the benefit of all not for the few.
