UK austerity has inflicted 'great misery' on citizens, UN says

[dessiato]

Interesting article.
UK austerity has inflicted 'great misery' on citizens, UN says

I don't suppose the government will give a toss though. They're blind to anything that might be against their short sighted policies.

 

[Pickman's model]

Un in stating the bleeding obvious shocker

 

[maomao]

Interesting article.
UK austerity has inflicted 'great misery' on citizens, UN says

I don't suppose the government will give a toss though. They're blind to anything that might be against their short sighted policies.

They will give a toss. They will be very pleased. This was always their aim.

 

[DotCommunist]

Lat time the UN sent special rappouteur here, some years back that person spoke up about the state of it all, only to be labelled a marxist blood drinking witch in the Mail. It sticks with me because it was one of those this 'well fuck me, the bar is lower than I had thought' moments.

 

[editor]

It's made me so fucking angry. And although the UN are toothless, it's good to hear them tell the world how badly this government - and capitalism - is treating its citizens.

 

[Poi E]

The UN has been hitting the UK for some time over austerity, the rights of the disabled, hate crime...

 

[DotCommunist]

someone on the twitterbox pointed out that this is the first time since 31 that a government has deliberately impoverished the poorest. Told us they were going to do it, cheered when voting it through. I'm not sure if that 31 date is correct tho, they tell me thatchers lot gouged the shit out of ordinary people too

 

[maomao]

someone on the twitterbox pointed out that this is the first time since 31 that a government has deliberately impoverished the poorest. Told us they were going to do it, cheered when voting it through. I'm not sure if that 31 date is correct tho, they tell me thatchers lot gouged the shit out of ordinary people too

Thatch fucked the working class but the benefits system grew massively under her because she was more interested in destroying any vestige of collective organisation than in robbing paupers for their last few coppers. Not that it wasn't always part of the plan just that she didn't get to the endgame.

 

[stavros]

Krishnan GM was getting fairly indignant on C4 News with the junior minister who kept parroting the "more people in work than ever" party line.

 

[dessiato]

Krishnan GM was getting fairly indignant on C4 News with the junior minister who kept parroting the "more people in work than ever" party line.

It's the way that those in need are treated that's a true measure of the government's attitude. And if people in work are still living in poverty, needing food banks etc. then there's something very seriously wrong.

 

[Shechemite]

The UN has been hitting the UK for some time over austerity, the rights of the disabled, hate crime...

Indeed

UN panel criticises UK failure to uphold disabled people's rights

 

[dessiato]

Why on earth do we keep voting for these bastard's? What's wrong with the electorate? Are they so blinkered they can't see what's happening, or do they just not give a fucking?

This makes me so angry.

 

[maomao]

Why on earth do we keep voting for these bastard's?

Do we? Only 29% of the electorate voted Tory at the last election.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Why on earth do these bastards keep voting for these bastard's?

ffy

 

[dessiato]

Do we? Only 29% of the electorate voted Tory at the last election.

But they still get in. They still fuck us over. And people still vote for them.

 

[Edie]

I think I’m becoming an extremist in my old age because reading this made me want to kill them.

 

[Pickman's model]

I think I’m becoming an extremist in my old age because reading this made me want to kill them.

the south atlantic canal network will deal with this situation and make grytviken the venice of the south atlantic

 

[Edie]

the south atlantic canal network will deal with this situation and make grytviken the venice of the south atlantic

I have literally no idea what you’re talking about

 

[Pickman's model]

I have literally no idea what you’re talking about

very simple - the former people who make you angry will be transported to south georgia to dig canals, while some of them will work on a bridge to argentina

 

[Edie]

very simple - the former people who make you angry will be transported to south georgia to dig canals, while some of them will work on a bridge to argentina

Not necessarily disagreeing, but isn’t that quite a complicated solution compared to just killing them?

 

[Pickman's model]

Not necessarily disagreeing, but isn’t that quite a complicated solution compared to just killing them?

we could just kill them. but where would the fun be in that?

 

[existentialist]

Lat time the UN sent special rappouteur here, some years back that person spoke up about the state of it all, only to be labelled a marxist blood drinking witch in the Mail. It sticks with me because it was one of those this 'well fuck me, the bar is lower than I had thought' moments.

I notice this time that they sent a white, British (presumably?) lawyer. It will be a bit harder for the gutter press to character-assassinate this one. Hard, but undoubtedly not impossible.

 

[Pickman's model]

I notice this time that they sent a white, British (presumably?) lawyer. It will be a bit harder for the gutter press to character-assassinate this one. Hard, but undoubtedly not impossible.

you cannot hope to bribe or twist
(thank god!) the british journalist
but seeing what they'll do
unbribed there's no occasion to

 

[redsquirrel]

Why on earth do we keep voting for these bastard's? What's wrong with the electorate? Are they so blinkered they can't see what's happening, or do they just not give a fucking?

This makes me so angry.

So you did you vote for then? In 2017, 2015, 2010?

Who were people supposed to vote for in 2010 and 2015 if they opposed austerity? (Leaving for the moment that what is called austerity on this thread is merely the latest incarnation of a politics that has been dominant since the late 70s)

 

[Edie]

It’s wrong to think that anyway, about killing them. I’d guess on the whole they’re probably decent people, and they genuinely think they’re doing the right thing? I don’t know anymore tbh.

 

[Pickman's model]

It’s wrong to think that anyway, about killing them. I’d guess on the whole they’re probably decent people, and they genuinely think they’re doing the right thing? I don’t know anymore tbh.

deep down they're decent people so i eagerly anticipate them being wrapped in a shroud, a big rock by their feet, and being consigned to the bottom of the south sandwich trench

not too fussed if life is extinct before they enter the water

 

[Poi E]

That would be the decent thing.

 

[Pickman's model]

It’s wrong to think that anyway, about killing them. I’d guess on the whole they’re probably decent people, and they genuinely think they’re doing the right thing? I don’t know anymore tbh.

further to my previous post, the road to hell is paved with good intentions

 

[DotCommunist]

It’s wrong to think that anyway, about killing them. I’d guess on the whole they’re probably decent people, and they genuinely think they’re doing the right thing? I don’t know anymore tbh.

I don't think they are. We just literally matter less to them, our lives are irrelevant nuisances. And when you listen to the likes of senior tories they are an actual menace, they really hate us. They look at the lives of the working poor in indonesia and wonder why they can't gouge us like that anymore- look at how genuinely angry they get when the slightest thing goes our way.

In the end though I don't suppose it matters day to day (unless we're interested in working out these peoples psychology in order to better work against it), a dangerous dog is a dangerous dog.

 

[Pickman's model]

I don't think they are. We just literally matter less to them, our lives are irrelevant nuisances. And when you listen to the likes of senior tories they are an actual menace, they really hate us. They look at the lives of the working poor in indonesia and wonder why they can't gouge us like that anymore- look at how genuinely angry they get when the slightest thing goes our way.

In the end though I don't suppose it matters, a dangerous dog is a dangerous dog.

not when it's drowned in the deepest part of the south atlantic or dies for the national interest building the grytviken - buenos aires friendship bridge