Misanthrope
Mage
- Oct 23, 2018
- 557
I feel like in this country I am living through a quiet indirect genocide. Brought about by punitive policies that I saw drive my clients to suicide and made my inbox look like some Kafka nightmare of bureaucratic cruelty that fit the textbook definition of psychological torture. I am seeing front-line charities that don't tow the party line being strangled of funding and literally being told to shut up or else. The hardship and the horror eats at my thoughts constantly. I can't get it out of my head. Universal credit will likely kill even more people, and I suspect Brexit in whatever absurd form it ends up in will do further damage and cement the demise of the NHS. So we can gain the toxic American insurance model. Pushed by disability denial factories that have already been sued against. But are already essentially buying UK policy with their generous campaign support and lucrative future job offers...
I am sick of policies of chronically under-funding mental health services. Under-funding social care provision to the point people are left stewing in their own shit. Of cutting a host of supportive programs that had demonstrable efficacy in keeping people out of a hospital environment and led to consistently improved quality of life outcomes. I saw those outcomes damn it! How is that not a cost saving if you want to just look at it economically? It is so short-sighted! As short-sighted as switching off street lights to save money, resulting in more car accidents and assaults and rapes on workers coming home from night shifts.
There is only one such decent program left in my area and it is only available once a week and has a waiting list time of about eight fucking months! Not surprising as they let half the staff go so can only handle a reduced number of clients.
It is quite telling when people are setting themselves on fire in jobcentres and council offices out of sheer desperation. Is it reported meaningfully in the mainstream media like a Tibetan monk setting himself ablaze in protest to decry a rotten regime… No of course not. It is also telling the DWP got briefing materials on how to handle the suicidal.
It is rage inducing to see the UN report on extreme poverty and human rights in the UK be whitewashed as too political, and being unpleasant in tone, and simply disagreed with. That is not a goddamn counter-argument to any of the points raised. If this was a child's debate club you would have lost. The fact societal issues are reduced to this level because it runs counter to an entrenched ideology makes me think Spongebob could do a better fucking job at bringing about some intelligence and humanity!
I feel like we are going back to the dickens era straight out of Jack London's People of the Abyss. Dominic Raab is even on record saying he wanted to bring back work houses for the poor.
I am left with so much helplessness and impotent hatred I don't know what to do with it sometimes.
Oh well, I guess I have Borderlands 2 and can shoot bandits in the face with corrosive weapons as a method to stop thinking about my former dead clients and the horrifying future prospect of homelessness while sick. As well as the high chance of reductions in my own care budget. Leaving me to have to deal with my own vomit.
Is it any wonder catching the bus is on my mind?
I am sick of policies of chronically under-funding mental health services. Under-funding social care provision to the point people are left stewing in their own shit. Of cutting a host of supportive programs that had demonstrable efficacy in keeping people out of a hospital environment and led to consistently improved quality of life outcomes. I saw those outcomes damn it! How is that not a cost saving if you want to just look at it economically? It is so short-sighted! As short-sighted as switching off street lights to save money, resulting in more car accidents and assaults and rapes on workers coming home from night shifts.
There is only one such decent program left in my area and it is only available once a week and has a waiting list time of about eight fucking months! Not surprising as they let half the staff go so can only handle a reduced number of clients.
It is quite telling when people are setting themselves on fire in jobcentres and council offices out of sheer desperation. Is it reported meaningfully in the mainstream media like a Tibetan monk setting himself ablaze in protest to decry a rotten regime… No of course not. It is also telling the DWP got briefing materials on how to handle the suicidal.
It is rage inducing to see the UN report on extreme poverty and human rights in the UK be whitewashed as too political, and being unpleasant in tone, and simply disagreed with. That is not a goddamn counter-argument to any of the points raised. If this was a child's debate club you would have lost. The fact societal issues are reduced to this level because it runs counter to an entrenched ideology makes me think Spongebob could do a better fucking job at bringing about some intelligence and humanity!
I feel like we are going back to the dickens era straight out of Jack London's People of the Abyss. Dominic Raab is even on record saying he wanted to bring back work houses for the poor.
I am left with so much helplessness and impotent hatred I don't know what to do with it sometimes.
Oh well, I guess I have Borderlands 2 and can shoot bandits in the face with corrosive weapons as a method to stop thinking about my former dead clients and the horrifying future prospect of homelessness while sick. As well as the high chance of reductions in my own care budget. Leaving me to have to deal with my own vomit.
Is it any wonder catching the bus is on my mind?
