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so im in public services that have been decimated over recent years- however I was also pro Brexit. bear with me …… I didn't vote tory
im a front line police officer. its absolutely shite. morale at an all time low and its now just policing by numbers. hitting targets is more important than doing a decent job, and numbers are so low there is very little chance of doing a decent job .
I won an award a few months ago - for my commitment to victim care. and that's why I joined - because I DO care.
many many of my colleagues voted tory yesterday . I get why but as a mother to a disabled child there was no way I could follow suit.
police see the worst of the worst - and what we see a lot is Romanian/Latvian shoplifting gangs. polish knife fights. I am not by any means racist - that label was what stopped the Rotherham child abuse scandal - fear of being called racist when speaking and seeing the truth - no one should have carte blanche to commit crime while hiding behind a race card. no one.
but im so dismayed that Brexit has been the issue that meant most of my colleagues , my friends, my family, voted tory yesterday.
I think they are sheep. blinkered by one issue. I live in what was until yesterday a labour safe seat. not any more.
im dismayed people didn't look at the bigger picture. I did, I voted labour. im staying quiet on FB as id be slated. but as a mother of a special needs child im so sad - my friend - in the same boat - voted tory solely because of Brexit.
I researched. and the manifesto of labour was what I stood for and I stand by that. even now.
its done - yes I was sick as anyone of the Brexit impasse - but it wasn't worth handing power to trumps little brother was it?
whatever will be will be now I guess. no hard feelings. Brexit now needs to happen, but I genuinely feel bojo was appealing to the lowest common denominator .
my son emigrated 4 years ago. he wont come home now as his wife would not be welcomed here.