Reform: Mental Note, when time comes...
Lets not get fooled twice, shall we?
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There is no excuse for being fooled by Reform they are very clear about who they are.
Which is the best party to vote for to get disability rights taken seriously?1 -
How many were cheering when labour dethroned the conservatives, do you still have that excitement. I personally believe the name may change, the party colour may change but the puppet masters remain, Reform may be a necessary evil for now but until we get to a point, by we I mean humanity as a whole, when we realise we need a gov to just run the country, nothing else and we can run our own lives and stop giving these power hungry psychopaths our permission to do as they like we will always suffer the consequences of their decisions, while they bare no blame or consequence, it's of our own making.
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Sadly, people will be fooled. Even some disabled people will be fooled by the rhetoric.
It's happening in America right now where people voted for the headline policies without reading the manifesto. There are two ongoing situations being publicised via independent media: #FAFO and "I never thought the leopards would eat MY face!"
Those situations perfectly capture the ignorance of those who allowed their racism, homophobia, ablism, misogyny, transphobia, xenophobia, and general all round bigotry free rein in the ballot box.
They also capture the reality of how the policies they demanded be enacted on others are now being enacted on them.
Anyone saying Farage and his band of deplorables are a necessary evil on a temporary basis is, at best, mistaken.
Once they have power they will never willingly relinquish it.
If you believe as an ordinary Joe/Joanne you are powerless now, just please have a look at America through the lens of what independent media remains to see what a authoritarian / dictatorship regime looks like and its impact on those who actively voted for it.
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I think its very dangerous to say Reform is a necessary evil. I can understand them as a protest vote so soon after the proposed changes to welfaresystem but surely there is time to come up with something better before the next general election.
If Reform ever get into actual power the results will be truly terrifying.2 -
No way that's why important to email labour mps and say if they stops cuts we will vote for them
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I know many people in US and they are very happy with the Trump Presidency , exactly what they wanted and what they voted for .
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There is no party to vote for , they hate disabled people .
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as always we are left no option just like the last election, cons were crazy, reform last minute started on about conscription, it only left labour, we are manipulated in whom we can vote for every time, which is why I said, until we learn not to vote in our next slave master, we will have the same ****.
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Unfortunately, our political system now follows the money. Not only is there no party for the poorest and disabled to vote for, there is no party for the majority anymore. The political system is like the society we now have, focussing on the wealthy and the middle class from a very top-down perspective. This has been purposeful since Thatcher and Reagan. The establishment wants to claw back what they lost since the end of the 2nd WW, and they have been doing this bit by bit and by leaps and bounds since the late 1970s.
Privatisation has put the wealth and power back into the hands of the wealthy and powerful and the results can be seen in the rundown of infrastructure, social and council services, the constant rise in prices of everything and the stagnation of wages for most people. Equally, the push to the right politically and the MSM giving us lies that the greed and injustice everywhere is somehow unavoidable and inevitable when it isn't, it is a choice being made by politicians backed by the wealthy.
A 3rd of a million people died off in the last round of austerity and if that isn't a genocide of sorts I don't know what is. I can do nothing about that but I can and will write and talk about it everywhere I can. I suggest you all do the same but that's your choice. The prophets of old spoke against evil in high places. I'm a Christian and I feel compelled to do this. I prefer to side with those at the bottom end of society and not those at the top.
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I'm an atheist and I agree with @Timbo_Guitar .
I will always side with the underdog, the downtrodden, the abused, and the weak.
I have always done so, not through religious teaching, rather through the teaching by my parents/extended family of the values all religions claim to represent: the brotherhood of man.
As we say in Scotland "We're aw Jock Tamson's bairns." Our National Poet captured that belief in his song '‘A Man's a Man for A' That’ as far back as 1795.
It works for me, my family, and my friends.
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