13 years of failure

The Conservative and Union Party has been in power, either in coalition or exclusive power since May 2010. What we see now is either the success of failure of 13 years of Government.

Nothing is better in the UK today than it was a decade ago.

If you think otherwise, then I ask you to add a comment to this post.

Only slightly positive thing is that Cameron made same-sex marriage legal.

One thing.

Brexit.

200,000 COVID deaths

Billions upon billions of pounds of taxpayer money spent via "VIP" routes to friends, family and chums.

The NHS in crisis.

40% deliberate underfunding of the Justice system, courts closed, laweyers and barrister fleeing the sector.

And immigration.

Tony Benn once said that how a Government treated refugees shows how it would treat its own citizens if it thought it could get away with it. Regugees are the most desperate of people, the ones Christian Faith tells us we should be Good Samaritans for.

Since 2002, ten pieces of anti-immigration legislation has been created and nine of them passed into law. The tenth was announced yesterday. None of the previous nine has had any effect. Each one makes something that was against the law previously be more aginst it now.

Truth is, as with most right wing Governments, cruelty is the point.

The issue with the small boats could be solved in a week: process claims in France, agree a return policy to replace the Dublin agreement which lapsed thanks to Brexit, and all valid claims would stay, and those without merit returned.

No issue at all.

But with no legal route to the UK to claim asylum, they have to take what there is, and making the most desperate people, even those who helped UK Forces in theatres of conflict who were promised to be cared for and brought to the UK, only have the small boats route to get here.

The Government could stop it my the weekend, but choose not to, rather make refugees suffer so they can weaponise it in a culture war to appeal to the racists and headbangers.