Spread this like wildfire. Just a collection of tweets and images from #toriesoutnow. We are facing a media blackout of this at the moment so let people know.
Even twitter has joined in the censorship the hash tag #ToriesOutNow has been trending for hours but has been removed from the front page and replaced by #londonprotest which is effectively stripping away the political message behind these protests and diminishing the efforts.
Quick reminder that this is the Human Rights Act that Theresa May wants to get rid of. The revolution will not be televised. #ToriesOutNow #mediablackout #thecutwebleed
It’s a beautiful day. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and I feel like vomiting.
Results are still coming in, but the Tories are returning 304 seats, and with 37 still to return, it looks like a dead cert that they’ll get at least a strong-ish minority government.
And this scares the shit out of me. I don’t understand it. I don’t understand how anyone could look at the last five years and go “yes, more of that, please.” I don’t understand how they can actually have GAINED seats from both Labour and Lib Dems. And I don’t understand what the hell we’re going to do now.
Let me be clear: I am not opposing this on a purely ideological basis. I am not scared of abstract legislation. I am scared of this regime killing the people I care about. I am a disabled, queer student who comes from a low-income area, and while I am lucky enough to be middle-class and have family I can fall back on, way too many of the people I know do not have that.
Let me be clear: The current austerity measures are a joke. They disproportionately affect the poor, the elderly, and the disabled. The Tory aim is what the Tory aim has always been: class warfare and the privatisation of enterprise. Thatcher never died, kids. Not while Thatcherism’s alive and well.
Let me be clear: Every public service attacked by the Tory manifesto is one we need. We need the NHS. Believe me, as someone who has multiple neurological, physical, and mental conditions; believe me also as someone whose ambition is to work in the NHS. We need proper state education. Believe me as someone who attended an underfunded school, one whose grades fell after it became an academy. We need full benefits and a living wage. Believe me as someone who has too many friends struggling to live. These aren’t things we want, they’re things we need. They’re what makes us a society rather than just a bunch of people stuck in the same shitty country. They’re fundamental necessities of life, and they’re being undercut at every turn by an urban, Westminster-centric view which ignores the poor and the vulnerable. (And, for the record, one of the things that makes me sickest is that I even need to say this: we need the winter fuel allowance. People die of cold from not being able to afford fuel now, jesus wept)
Let me be clear: This government is not going to get better. This isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. This kind of class warfare is the modus operandi of the Conservative Party, and we’ve just condemned ourselves to half a decade more of it. And people will suffer. Our culture will suffer. People will die. And given the circles I move in, a good number of those people will be my friends, or friends of my friends. I am one of the lucky ones. And I am struggling. As a student, as a disabled person, as a human being in this society, I am struggling.
Checking the results again. 621 returned. Tories with 310.
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.
this looks like something out of a film but this was legit how this was announced holy shit I never realised how pretentiously awesome British traditions were
david cameron sits in his office. he’s a very serious man. he’s trying to write a very serious speech about the very serious issue of the working class sponging from food banks, but it is very difficult to concentrate when water is dripping ceaselessly from the ceiling. there is no leak upstairs and no burst pipe, but still it pours in. it’s knee deep now. he looks at the tattoo-like message that appeared on his arm overnight. for every hungry mouth, another drop will fall. thatcher’s ghost drifts in again and snickers with glee. i do love the rain, she says. david doesn’t know how to swim.
nick clegg looks in the mirror and the reflection of david cameron moves with him. little yellow canary birds fall dead from the trees wherever he goes. all his ties are blue now, and when he goes to buy a particularly fetching mustard one, that turns blue too. he can’t remember if he went to cambridge or oxford. his wife grows tired of having to wade through tiny avian corpses wherever she goes, but still they mount up.
every room in ed milliband’s house is now a kitchen. he’s not sure how this happened. he started off with one, then built another for the nanny to use, of course- then-? he doesn’t recall. he doesn’t know how he amassed so many kitchens but now the press are starting to ask questions. why did you have 7 ovens delivered last week? why do you need 5 fridges?? are you opening a restaurant?? he doesn’t know how to say that he now sleeps on the breakfast bar and sponge baths himself via the kitchen sink. no matter what he orders from ocado, all that gets delivered are bacon sandwiches.
IMMIGRANTS!!! shrieks nigel farage. IMMIGRANTS IN MY FUCKING KITCHEN!!!!.EATING MY FOOD! PULLING MY HOUSE APART TO FIND SOMEWHERE TO LIVE!! he is frothing at the mouth in rage and has on a very snazzy pair of purple underpants. each bum cheek has a gold pound sign on it. his wife sighs into her breakfast. IMMIGRANTS IN MY HOUSE!!! he hollers again, and she looks where he is pointing. a tiny stream of ants are scuttling across the kitchen floor. yes, dear she says, and escorts him to sit on the sofa. he has become so racist that anything not produced within a 10 mile radius of him is repelled. their home is very sparse.
Found the best gothic post, everyone can go home now.
It will never cease to amuse me that UKIP seem to have got their colour scheme from the Standing At The Back Dressed Stupidly And Looking Stupid Party from Blackadder.
if any of my non-uk followers were wondering what the deal with UKIP is, here is a handy 7-point guide to get you started into this wonderland of racist classist bullshit
this post has been getting a lot of notes if anyone wants to know what the fuss is about this is a reasonable starting point what with the elections coming up and all
May 1 2014 – Nigel Farage, leader of the racist UK Independence Party gets egged.
The man who threw the egg was holding a placard which said: “UKIP… sad, scared, old men”. He was put into a patrol car by police and driven away.
The protester, who gave his name as Fred from Nottingham, said he had carried out the attack because he did not agree with UKIP’s policies.
He told the BBC: “Egg-throwing is a well established form of political protest in this country. I saw the guys outside the town hall about 10 minutes ago. I went to Tesco, bought some eggs.”
look at the fucking girl behind them though
“Egg-throwing is a well established form of political protest in this country”
I didn’t realise it was true until I saw it written down. It really is.
Is this weird for people in other countries or do you guys all throw eggs at politicians too? I can remember seeing politicians get egged on TV since I was a kid. There’s totally a research project in this.
In America we just kill the people that we don’t like
Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP and Leanne Wood of Plaid Cymru shouting down Nigel Farage is the only thing that gives me hope for British politics in the future
So glad someone GIF’d this
It’s also important to point out that what Farage said simply isn’t true.
According to Public Health England, which collects and analyses HIV statistics, 62% of people newly infected with the virus in 2012 were born in the UK. There are almost 100,000 people living with HIV in Britain.
Of the 53,000 heterosexuals with HIV, according to Public Health England, 11,000 were African-born men and 20,700 African-born women. Levels of HIV infection in these migrant groups are lower than in their country of origin.
Nor is there evidence that visitors come to the UK purely to get HIV treatment. Few of those later diagnosed as HIV accessed testing as soon as they arrived in the UK, according to the National Aids Trust, suggesting that they did not know of their status.
A House of Commons report on HIV in 2005 found that HIV-positive migrants tended not to turn to the NHS until the disease was well advanced, usually years after they entered the UK. This, it said “would not be the expected behaviour of a cynical ‘health tourist’ who had come to the country solely to access free services”.
Until relatively recently visitors to the UK from outside the European Economic Area could be charged for HIV treatment, an anomaly to established practice that anyone with an infectious disease should be able to access NHS treatment for free.
A rule change in October 2012 extended the right to free HIV treatment to all overseas visitors regardless of nationality, including asylum-seekers, students and tourists, bringing HIV into line with diseases such as meningitis, tuberculosis, cholera, food poisoning, and malaria.
The change was defended by the coalition on the grounds that it was essential to protect public health and prevent the spread of HIV. Free treatment would encourage testing, reduce levels of late diagnosis and the spread of infection, and cost the taxpayer less in the long run.
Despite opposition from a small group of Conservative backbench MPs, the move had widespread mainstream political support. Lord Fowler, who was Margaret Thatcher’s health secretary in the 1980s, described the case for change as “overwhelming in human terms”.
