Friday 2 December 2022

The Grimest Of December Advent Calendars

Liz Truss will go down as one of the worst British Prime Ministers in living memory and when you bear in mind that living memory includes Boris Johnson then that is no mean feat but since 2010 and David Cameron landing his size nines on the Downing Street doorstep, then the Conservatives have been terrible in almost everything they have done, the largest network food banks in the UK, the Trussell Trust, had 35 food banks handing out food parcels in 2010 and at the end of 2021 operated 1400 with a further 1,172 independent food banks which is an alarming stat in the 6th richest nation in the world.
The jewel in the British crown was always our NHS but serious underfunding every year since the Conservatives got into power and the barking insanity which was Brexit and Liz Truss right wing ideological economic disaster now means that the National Health Service is in the worst state it has ever been although to my mind that has always been the Conservative plan in preparation for Privatising it.
Along with the NHS, many of our institutions are failing which is why we are facing a December of strikes, an appalling advent calendar of a strike every day throughout the month from Nurses, Junior Doctors, the Rail Industry, Bus Drivers, National Highways employees, Airport baggage handlers, Teachers, Driving examiners, Border Force staff, DVLA employees, delivery drivers and brewers.
Political incompetence, economic ineptitude and a grotesque indifference to the people they ruled over for over a decade has led us to where we are today and Britain not only deserves better, it should be taken for granted that our Government, and it is worth repeating we are the 6th richest nation on the planet, would   
not be in a situation where it's citizens are literally facing a question of heating or eating.
With such a huge poll lead, it is expected Labour and Keir Starmer will take over the reins in 2024 and we can only hope that they get the ship off the rocks that the ideological Conservatives has planted us so if nothing else, we have discovered what a right wing ideology looks like and it looks very much like a huge queue for food parcels, protests and large swathes of the country downing tools to demand better pay and conditions.

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