ephemerid wrote:I've been trying to catch up on some kip, but I've been crying instead.
Ed is a decent man, and he may choose to resign, but the party should refuse to accept his resignation.
Whether he decides to fall on his sword or they make him go, it would be wrong.
For me, he represents the nearest thing in Labour's upper echelons to a proper socialist.
Without him at the helm, I have no business being a member of the party.
I feel that the public, the people who have chosen to ignore what the coalition has done, are to blame.
5 years ago, they delivered a hung Parliament because they didn't trust any party to govern alone.
Back then they had no idea what the new crop of Tories were capable of.
Cameron finagled his way into power and now the public DO know what to expect.
That's what has upset me so much - they are either so stupid that they believe the crap Cameron spouts and the things they are fed by the mainstream media, or they are so selfish that they choose to ignore the dreadful things that have been done in their name.
Life is about to get a lot worse for the sick, disabled, unemployed, working poor; it will be harder still for the homeless, abused, accused, prisoners; there will be a nasty vicious mendacious administration that will take every penny and every right from the vulnerable.
When there is no more to take from the poorest, they will come for the next - we will pay for help to buy, for stoking up the housing bubble, for business to get work done for free, for private companies to profit from our NHS, our schools, our court and prisons.
There will be more austerity and the people will believe that it's necessary and sit and watch while more kids go hungry and more people get socially cleansed from the better areas; there will be more deaths and suicides and there will be no asylum for the abused or the sick.
At some point people will wake up - when their elderly are badly cared for because nothing has been done to help them, when their homes are repossessed because the interest on their loans goes up, when their jobs go and are replaced by workfare, when they can't get justice because they cannot afford to pay, when their kids can't go to uni because the fees are beyond reach, when there is no NHS to sort out the cock-ups of the private providers who will inevitably botch routine surgery - and by then it will be too late because all the services they have taken for granted for so long will not be there any more, and they will be paying more for worse and be left wondering how it happened to them.
Are they all asleep? Or are they thick? Maybe they are just utterly selfish. Whatever, they are responsible for what happens next.
And the people who will pay for that first will be people who have no hope as it is; and they, those voters, will be responsible.
I am so angry it's coming out almost like grief. I am losing my country to forces that are intent on dividing us for their own enrichment, and it makes me sick to my stomach.
Sorry,
Don't be sorry. You're making me cry again.
