My political thoughts ...good for insomnia

 I never really got deep into politics till I became ill and unable to work. Then I started listening harder and paying more attention.

I will say this from the get-go I have NEVER or will vote for the Conservative party. I have always voted Labour, but I am NOT a Labour supporter. I am more..neutral or easier to say I follow my head in my views.

I will say Maggie Thatcher almost destroyed the country. Her vitriol against the miners was disgusting. Then the ill-thought-out and utterly disastrous Poll Tax that brought about her downfall, thanks to the riots against it.

I did like Tony Blair at the start. With "did" being the operative word. Then he went for the Nazi Party ideal with I.D Cards. Which went billions over budget and was never delivered and got crushed the first day of Cameron & Clegg's coalition. Thank goodness. But, will Dis-Truss make a run for them? Maybe.

I will say this I hate the Conservative party for their hatred of the sick, poor and disabled. It was led by one "man" Ian Goebbels Duncan-Smith. He wanted people who were sick and disabled back at work. At any cost. It was a move that would end his career and almost "Dodgy" Dave Cameron's as well. 

As the years went by more and more reports about ATOS the French company running the fit for work interviews. They got to the point they could no longer be dismissed. Cameron and Goebbels tried and tried to not have the number of suicides thanks to the way the clients were treated and forced back to work. There were even cases of forcing terminally ill people back to work. But eventually, they had to give the numbers out and they were bad. Real bad.

It even affected me. I knew I wasn't capable of doing anything. But the threat was there. When Smith went down it was joyous. But sadly we now seem to have IDS Mk II as Suella Braverman. Who's on record as saying too many people are on benefits. Or in Tory Speak: get those lazy scrounging bastards back to work. 

She'll end up the same way as IDS, with people topping themselves due to having untold pressure on them. Yes, some people DO abuse the system but not to the level that you are told by the Tory-backed media. The official numbers say fraud is 3%. Just 3% yet the Tories will tell you it's around 10% and we're all driving BMWs and taking 5 holiday's a year. Yet the truth is, from the frontline - me - we make it from payment to payment. Nothing extravagant, we simply don't have the excess to do that. 

But I don't support Labour either. Corbyn could have been a good leader. Could. had he stamped out the antisemitism from the get-go. He failed and it cost him big time at the next General Election. Starmer is really no better, to be honest. the ghost of the alleged case over his time at the CPS is looming. Of course, the Tory-backed media play it large and louder than it truly is. 

I would say I am more of not really a bleeding-heart liberal. More of a person who wants this country on its feet again, but doesn't want people to suffer for it. the fact the government have had to step in to bail out every household, and business in the country due to the vile jacks in pricing due to the spinless Ofgem is shocking, to say the least. If they hadn't done that we could have been looking at economic ruin for thousands of businesses, and possibly countless lives lost had we had a bad winter.

However, the sad fact is that people's children will be paying for this for years to come. 

I will say I laughed like crazy when people tried to get "Ding-dong the witch is dead" (from the Wizard of Oz) to number one when Maggie passed away. It didn't make it, it got to number two. 

- David