I am the reason your vote means so little today. I broke down our nation’s great infrastructure and placed it into the hands of a wealthy few; many of whom have never stepped foot anywhere near where their investment sits. This handful of people do not fear your government nor you as I’ve given them full control of your future. Your life is now and forever free to exploit by these few people whose names you’ll never know and their profits will always be safely hidden away from benefiting you in anyway.
Our aim is to help shine a light on some of the social issues that have become somewhat forgotten about in the modern society that many of us are now accustomed to. We will cover the impact these now social norms have on our quality of life including the way we are governed.
Is this constant political battle really worth our time? Over the years Capitalism has shot up all wealth and therefore power into the hands of so few yet we the people have made no major changes to the way we are governed. Make no mistake, corruption has always played it’s part in our government, they have just gotten better at hiding it from us in the modern world; away from cameras, out of files, no legal names, it’s also hard to prove when a favour really is just a favour. So what do we do now? The few who hold any power at all are clearly not using it to benefit the people, our lives are instead exploited to breaking points and our children’s futures taken before they even have a chance to make a decision for themselves. The big question is when does this end? When will enough of us break out of this artificial box we are kept in to actually make a change? When will enough of us unite? Use our own minds? and help each other out of this system that has us believe food, clean water and shelter are not an absolute right for us all. We cannot change a system from within the system itself we must stand up and say no together.
As we see another year come to an end we try to keep our thoughts positive for the New Year ahead. The past year saw living conditions crumble and crushed the dreams for many. Our “strong and stable government” had little or no stability at all and all that “levelled up” were the pockets of the billionaires who continue to profit from our misery. The magic money tree remains a dream for key workers and children yet open for banks as usual, the elderly shivering from the cold has been tolerated to allow for the record profits of energy companies. Homelessness, hospital waiting times and inflation have shot up while wages have dropped for 12 years. Sadly our government still has the audacity to blame people using food banks for our problems and uses their media to turn us against one another. Will things change this year? Perhaps we need more action and less prayer.
There is no stronger force than the people, but just how many of us have stopped to take a breath from this hamster wheel we are all on? How many have so much as dared to think about it? We are busy shouting “we need to eat”; “we have to pay our rent” and “have to survive”, sadly that is your trap. The cage door is locked right outside your wheel, had you stepped off there wouldn’t be much time before the little stability you had started to vanish. However, what if we all stepped off that wheel together? supported each other off instead of watching others fall and fail? shared our time helping one another to stand without their wheels? instead of giving all the hours of our day to the ones who exploit us all? We must disconnect our time from the nonsense and reconnect with each other in order to slowly regain our power as a people.
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Winter is weeks away but sadly nothing substantial has been done to protect our most vulnerable from this cost of living crisis. Many of us will lose loved ones due to a lack of the most basic needs such as heat, shelter, health care and perhaps even food. What’s more upsetting is the fact that this is for no other reason but to let the extremely wealthy hoard more unnecessary cash that benefits no one.
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One of our toughest challenges in this crisis is affordable accommodation, a roof over every citizens head should not be considered a luxury in any nation let alone one of the richest. Many of us without inherited wealth, parents to move in with or the luck to afford extortionate rent prices are simply left to rot in the streets as our current governments last priority has always been building homes; this helps keep property prices high and those with large property portfolios such as Tory voters, donors and the MPs themselves happy; especially as there are no caps on private rented homes, why else would they twice block a bill for homes to be made fit for human habitation? They will be happy seeing us sleeping in the snow this winter as long as we got to our jobs on time, their game is to give us as little as possible, just enough for us not to revolt while they hoard the wealth. Morals don’t benefit capitalism and hence the Tory party.
Once again the Tories have elected a fresh leader to give us all the illusion of change and restore confidence in their party. I have no doubt that over the next few weeks we shall be hearing many uplifting speeches from our new prime minister on tackling the cost of living crisis through tax cuts for the middle and upper classes and perhaps a goody bag or two for the most vulnerable. No new taxes for billionaires as their increased profits will of course “trickle down” and create more poverty wage jobs but with her plans for a boosted work ethic and “keep calm and carry on” attitude who knows we might just be able to afford to put the heating back on one day.
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