I have ranted about this before, but it is a rant I can endlessly repeat and so will. Not that it will do any good...
To say I am disillusioned would be an understatement. It goes from disillusioned to having the same reaction as if I was watching a Westminster pedophile having their way with a crying four-year-old. While being kept behind clear bulletproof plastic, forced to watch as other MP's take photos on their smartphones that the already hard done taxpayer paid for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_paedophile_dossier
I have so many integral issues with it. From first past the post systems meaning new parties with fresh ideas more reflective of the youth don't even get a chance to breathe. To gerrymandering to skew outcomes reducing the mathematical weight of your vote into pointlessness. To stuffing the lords full of cronies who barely show up and when they do seem to sleep. To party whips making sure the entire party votes the same way, even if it means local constituents will suffer and their platforms for selection in the first place get disregarded. To not answering a fucking question, or citing sources. Or acting like they are on the set of a pantomime, with jeering, booing and heckling as standard.
Disgust is a better descriptor. However, even that is not strong enough! What word is there for policies that have driven my best friend to suicide, killed numerous numbers of my former clients? Left existing clients with nowhere to go. Are busy shutting down A&E's and libraries. What word is there for a system that is indirectly killing the disabled and creating a climate of terror? On a scale, they refuse to even measure. Which allows them the convenience of saying there is no correlation and the disabled are engaged in scaremongering. Whose odious policies form my own trigger point for suicide? Even the terminally ill are winding up homeless for fuck sake!
The UN has condemned this government multiple times for its callous disregard of vulnerable demographics.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ial-rapporteur-benefits-callous-a8636901.html
The governments response was honestly painful to watch, did they address any of the points raised. Laughably no, instead they took issue with the tone and accused the UN of being 'too political.'
Revulsion is not a strong enough word either. Skyrocketing rates of food bank usage. Posed in front of like opening a new one is a good thing! Children coming to school so starved that breakfast clubs are starting to become common and dickens era maladies are returning!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-43611527
https://www.theguardian.com/society...en-disproportionately-need-hospital-treatment
No, I am not disillusioned I am instead at a frothing state of rage. A rage that comes from having worked alongside it and seeing what amounts to a tribalistic playground rife with bigotry and privilege that only serves themselves.
I am left utterly horrified that this is the state of politics and that we accept it as normal. In any other job if your boss asks you a question and you instead talk around the question never answering it. That boss would get sick of you eventually and fire you for someone who can answer a fucking question, and quote some damn figures!
At the end of the day, we are meant to be the boss of these people, they work for us. But the truth of it is we are a mere annoyance who have to be pandered to every 4 years. Empty promises, equally empty hope and no accountability.
