Oh Come All Ye Faithful, Frothy and Triumphant! Oh Come Lefties, Come Ye to anti ConDem-nay-tion!

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Fed up of the ConDems robbing the poorest and most vulnerable blind? Sympathetic to the squeezed middle? Have you eyes that can see the horrors that await the dismantling of our welfare state and all that is great and good in UK?

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This is our 4th thread now!

Absolutely agree with Custy

Why are the Tories better at it? becuase theya re led by sometone who worked in PR for ITV I presume, that's his only real skill after all

I feel despised. I want to work, I carefor my boys, I study

yet to this world I am worthless

Because we are a blip. Us baby boomers with our post war consensus kindness are a blip. We will go down in history as that fifty year blip at the end of the 20th century when tired after two WWs we all decided to love each other for a bit.

And then it all wore off and got selfish and nasty again. Or "normal," depending on your POV.

Of course part of the problem is that the "media" and I'm talking specifically here about the printed press and vastly skewed towards keeping the status quo.

The Murdochs, Dacres and Desmonds have a VESTED INTEREST in keeping the big businesses rich - of course! Why would they want to publicise the shit that's happening? It's utterly contrary to their own agenda's.

And the younger generations have forgotten what it was like. No one learns from history.

Big article yesterday(?) in the grauniad on just that, the 1% working for the interests of the rest of the 1%.

X posted.

Peachy. You are absolutely the opposite of worthless.

Don't be daft Peachy. What you gonna do? Lie down and accept their view with a resigned smile and a kick me here badge?

Labour are scared that no one cares about the poor etc any more. they are too scared to campaign on behalf of the dispossessed. They want power. Look at Clegg. A wee sniff of power and they all bend over.

I'm going to try and get something written up about losing the media battle and how clueless people who WILL be affected seem to be today.

BUT! I think I'm going to out myself fairly effectively if I write it under partyspanner - so if I write it and send it to someone else would you mind posting it for me and saying something like "written by a guest contributer" or summat?

I am not a baby boomer, I am apparently generation x.

But even my longest term friends, people who sympathise with us on a one to oen level, spout this shite on a generalised basis.

The new trules when analysed suggest that i9nstitutionalisation is something we are moving back towards- several of those new WRB reforms point towards that as a route: compulsory workfare, reductions in childcare payments etc.

But- and this is the big but- none of that matters until there are jobs. It's 4 months until I have childcre to go back to work but my city ahs lost voer a thousand jobs this month. I may be a product of the eighties and hardy when applying for work in a recession but I can't apply for what isn't available.

But I am glad I am in wales in most ways: there's less of the DM crap from most people I find, presumably as they;ve watched Merthr and the local sttel industry. MPs and AMs here at least Get It.

Hully course I am bloody not! I don't atually think I am capable of it LOL. I frequently go into meetings with the boys saying 'I will just listen' and end up gobbing off.

But it does hurt, of course it does.

Just got to hope about the power and leccy as DH is in the lighting design field! That WOULD be us scuppered. Mind, he's ace with an old genny set (carnival skill) so might be in demand...

you don't stand for the poor
you don't stand for the workers

are you just standing for the sake of getting power one day? SHAME ON YOU. SHAME -ON- YOU

Well said Custy. I've tweeted the Graniad CIF wrt the big society using the #frothers and #workfareisslavery. Plus I've tweeted a link to the TMC blog post about workfare using the same hashtags.

Shirley
You can mail it to me and I will post it, crediting a "Guest Blogger"

Or set up a Frothy gmail address with Pseudonym that cannot be linked to you.

I would offer but I can't make anything work so it would be a waste of time...

i want to move away from england.

would anyone recommend scotland or wales? am i right in thinking HE is free in scotland so my son might have a chance of an education? and are prescriptions free?

sorry random q.

Peachy, can DH start experimenting with low energy lighting and solar? Might give him a USP right now among clients delighted to save power costs?

Santa HE is free here in Scotland (at the moment - fingers Xed it stays that way!). The current Scottish government has a lot of excellent policies in place - free prescriptions, free school dinners, small class sizes etc. My concern is where the money is coming from to implement them, and how long they can be maintained.

A massive plus is the tiny insignificant presence the Tories have up here - Thatcher is still a swear word, and memories are long. That and the fact that it's beautiful up here.

Tianc they've done laods fo that as part of his degree so absolutely it is something he can branch into if needed.

Santa we moved from England a few (8 now!) years back and yes I do recommend it. Depending on where you are of course and employment levels for that area but HE is better catered for here (if not up to Scotlans'd level), free prescriptions etc. We will probably end up going back to Somerset at some stage but are very settled here (close to newport). Plus England is 25 minutes away, and of course housing (but also wages unless you commute over bridge as many do) cheaper

Gin YY to lack of Tory MPs; one of the big worries if we had to move is David Davis's constituency is 200m

Right. I can't write straight stuff so I have written a pome, but I want someone to read it first...

we have a theme song LMAO

i just wanted to say i'm really sorry for not being much help. am going through a meds change and tbh i'm bouncing off the walls at the minute with panic attacks and wanting to curl up in a ball and cry but not being able to stop pacing and freaking long enough. way tmi but hey people might as well know what these 'invisible' 'dole-bludging' disabilities are like to live with.

i hope to be back on track soon and really will write a blog post - just want to apologise because i've contributed so little to all this and it really does matter. i also want to say a massive thank you to all the people who don't even find themselves in situations like this but can empathise and care about those of us who do. it's reassuring just to know that not everyone thinks i'm a piece of scum who should be left to starve as punishment for not living up to societies expectations.

thank you!

and i hope they publish every suicide letter written in the next year or so.

From Cradle to Grave - The Welfare State

Shirley
I have touched on a few of your points, and will link up to your post when you have it done.

Santa
((hugs)) I am sorry that the added stress is making things worse for you. If it is too much for you to be frothy, take a break.

Peachy
We should embed that video on the blog.

Can one of you techy types have a look at the formatting on that last post. I cannot seem to get the blue bits off the top and there are a few other little things.