Caring conservatism

I try not to bring too much politics into my writing, I mean its a way to turn half your reader off right away, but since the election stuff has happened which shows that leopards really don't change their spots, and those in power treat us like idiots, because we let them.

If you believe the red tops of what used to be Fleet Street, you would have thought that our glorious leader, the ham-faced Camoron, had eliminated poverty, homelessness and ill health. That is what they thundered on Thursday after his closing speech. Only, his actions really did not back up his words.

Instead of eliminating poverty, they have redefined it, to massage the figures.

They have drastically reduced the amount of cases that legal aid can be used on, thus eliminating the recourse for justice to the very poorest.

Cutting tax credits to the poorest working people, reducing their annual income by up to a thousand pounds, because clearly paying them less will make them work harder or go for that job as CEO of ICI they are qualified for.

The 'bedroom tax'

The right to buy being extended, thus firther inflating the housing bubble making even larger numbers of the poorest will never get on the 'housing ladder'

Selling of the profitable bits of the NHS, and the rest of it being subjected the 'the internal market' diverting finds from healthcare into legal costs.

Trying to abolish judicial review, thus meaning government will not be subject to the laws they pass

Tax cuts for the rich

And so on.

And finally, when did we as a society get so selfish? A week ago I heard that the NHS is to stop universal free hearing aids to the deaf. And I heard an e mail read out of the radio where someone said, in all honesty, I pay for reading glasses, so why shouldn't the deaf buy their own hearing aids?

This is where we have stopped caring about others, see the faults in ourselves in others, excusing us from doing the decent thing because we are selfish bastards. I truly despair.

And the leader of the opposition is demonised for suggesting we should be more caring and that the rich should support the poor, the strong look after the weak. Saying that the political argument of the left has been lost, the only choice now are shades of blue. Bugger that.

There is no such thing as trickle down economics; never was

We will not enrich the poor by paying them less in benefits.

The very people who should be exposing this are in on the act; the press, the bloody BBC. Soon the truth will be their truth, if ever it was any different. Wake up sheeple.