I am 100% up for that, although I’m a bit worried about the Tories cutting our winter fuel allowance and letting us freeze to death.
But really, for any of my non-UK followers – the UK has just discovered that we’ve somehow re-elected Margaret Thatcher. The Conservative party, led by David ‘Hamface’ Cameron, are a bunch of right wing Etonians, whose political interests mostly focus on giving tax breaks to the highest earners within society, selling off social housing so that there aren’t enough social housing properties to meet the demand (and pretending that this is due to immigrants) and then punishing people who still live in social housing for being forced to live in larger properties than they need. He also enjoys long walks on the beach and demonising the lower economic classes by pretending that benefit fraud is the biggest threat to the UK public purse, when it’s actually tax evasion. They also removed the cap on tuition fees for universities whilst failing to provide adequate funding to ensure that students from less economically advantaged backgrounds could go to university, essentially turning universities into a privilege for the middle classes.
His big idea for helping the UK out of its economic recession was austerity, meaning that he planned on cutting public sector all across the board to save money, reduce spending and thus – theoretically – help economic growth. The problem with austerity is that it doesn’t bloody work. All the figures show that while there was a small growth when austerity was first implemented, it’s no longer helping the economy. All it’s done is increase the levels of poverty within the UK, necessitating a rise in 51% of people who are forced to use food banks just to have enough food to last the week, because their benefit / welfare allowance has been cut by so much that they can’t afford to buy the necessities.
For the record, here’s our previous and indeed future Prime Minister making the speech on austerity, the name of the policy which has meant that public sector financing has been cut, the moment he announced that he’d be slashing public funding all across the board and reducing benefits:
and here’s the people he announced it to:
So yeah, I think it’s pretty fair to say that it’s a great time to be upper-middle class in Britain right now, and a pretty terrible time to be anything else.
