I'm not quite a frothing berserker but I am getting rather cross with our government messing with the good stuff.

[KateMiddIeton]

Just off the top of my head:

• Student fees
• Public sector workers terms and conditions (otherwise known as moving the goal posts after the match has started)
• Women (Report on Fawcett legal challenge result here)
• Sure Start
• NHS
• Erosion of employment rights
• Removal of EMA
• Removal of universal child benefit
• Unfair changes to DLA
• Unfair changes to ESA assessment

I am getting more and more fed up that these decisions are being made to take away some of the things we should be most proud of and that took years to be achieved.

This thread is a safe haven for some ranting as I know some of us are feeling sick and tired of it all.

It's not dead, it's just sleeping
(like our revolutionary workers' movement)

I'm in too, but still too soon post partum to get get worked up. Will hang round here though.

found you!

haven't got the energy to read it all yet i'm afraid. frothed myself into exhaustion.

can i just say though IF THE TORIES GET IN AGAIN WE"RE FUCKED!! AND I"M LEAVING THE COUNTRY IF NOT THE PLANET.

the amount of damage that can't be undone that they'll do in one term is terrifying enough. we were finally beginning to recover from the last time they were in ransacking the cupboards and raffling off everything we owned.

one thing that did warm my heart slightly today was someone who voted tory APOLOGISING for their fucking idiocy and promising never to do it again!!!

i can't believe they suckered people who thought they were middle class and on their team into voting for them. i despair.

I think the trouble is SAF none of us voted for this.

they are certainly fast movers I'll give 'em that...

May I just pop in this little snippet that seems to have been lost in today's abysmal news.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15927344

£37,000

Words fail me.

That is outrageous Pandora.

Yup.

And our government think this is perfectly ok.

And people are suffering.

The problem is that there isn't an effective opposition.

The Lib Dems finally showed what they stand for - a seat on the front bench. And Labour will have to go through a period in the wilderness to distance themselves from Tony and Gordon. And Milliband is less electable that the lovechild of Neil Kinnock and Michael Foot.

I frothed all over twitter earlier. This evening I just feel sad. Really, really fucking sad.

37 grand? For that piece of shit?

What they need to do is get somebody in to the Treasury who has a family income of just above the threshold to get help. That person can then go through the accounts and go wtf? where appropriate because this lot have got no perspective. None.

They need someone who meal plans, doesn't stick it all on the plastic, who budgets every day of every year to make ends meet and doesn't buy things they can't afford. The sort of person who would sell the car or the house rather than their children's education or their granny's healthcare.

I'm in with this set of frothers !

Is anyone else looking at that portrait and thinking of the film The Dark Crystal?

I thought that when we had the General Election, we (as in us good ol' British public) sent a clear message that we didn't want any of those nominated to run the country ?

Yes, I understand that the Tories had the majority, and the coalition was formed, blah blah blah, but I think we felt that we didn't want any of the parties to form a government.

It annoys me intensely when I hear DC talking and say "this is what people voted for" NO WE DIDN'T !

We didn't want any of you !

I completely agree with Mildly. There is no effective opposition, Miliband has no appeal at all.

Googles

Meh. The painting is something that is always done. And the government will be quite happy to shove the spotlight onto him - he was never their choice for Speaker and they don't get on.

I am beyond angry too. How the fuck has this happened, public sector workers on £6.50 an hour who spend their week caring for the older members of our society (coincidence that most are women) being shafted while the politicians drink their subsidised wine in their subsidised bars.

Could they not have had a photo done instead? Much cheaper.

Whether it's always done or not, it's a fucking insult to spend that amount of PUBLIC money on something so frivolous and pointless.

Let them pay for it out of party funds or personal funds, but not OUR money.

Grrrr.....

we have to get past this idea of giving a shit about the personality of the leader. it's a party - there are many seats and votes within it.

essentially there are two ways to vote in this country - neither is a wonderful party or full of wonderful people we trust but one stands for a very big us (not just the self identifying working class but now the middle class too who are also small fry to be stamped on) and the other stand stands for their little elite club.

Surely, while we are all in this together he could have had a canvas done at Boots ? (or another reputable photo-canvas-type-place)

i honestly don't think it matters if you like labour or not anyone with half a brain or conscience has to vote for them next time just to avoid these evil bastards getting their fingers in the till again.

we are all in this together? Are we really, cos it doesnt feel like that to me. It feels a bit hopeless. But I'm so knackered after my 60 hour bastard working week that all I can be bothered to do is get raged on an internet forum.