The battle for Humanity’s soul has begun…but I’m out

In 2005 I started to actively do work that would make the world a bit of a better place.  I started out helping individuals with their efforts to better themselves through education by becoming an adult learner support volunteer and, from there, became a Student Governor on the Board of Governors at my local adult college whilst bettering myself with several courses at the same establishment.

In 2009 my efforts went one step further to encompass the betterment of my local community by organising and presenting a depression awareness event that aimed to dispel the myths surrounding depression, give people a better impression of those with the condition and build a sense of community within the depressive community and beyond.  This was followed up in 2010 with a more generalised mental health awareness event which, although didn’t get the community bums-in-seats I was hoping to get, did smooth the way to inter-organisational referrals that helped a number of individuals.  I will never know how many people were truly helped by that second event because figures weren’t kept.

Back in 2009, I also became the Chair of the Thurrock Mental Health Service User and Carer Forum which had, due to the uncertainty of its support systems, was in a poor state and in the following 22 months tried to build it up into something that could sustain itself if the members wanted to do so.  I wrote a constitution and tried to run the group in such a way that maximised its effectiveness (whether I was successful I will leave others to judge).

I also became a columnist on my local news website, Your Thurrock, in 2009. Starting off with mental health and spreading to more general topics, it was only in 2010 that I set my focus on politics.  The debates between the leaders of the main parties awakened my political interest and, when the worst happened and the Tories got into power helped by the treacherous Lib Dems, I used my column to highlight the injustices that were to follow from that victory.  I highlighted the injustice of the Bedroom Tax, the lack of a true mandate for the Tories to govern and other issues but all I got was abuse from the Right-wingers who branded me, at one point, a “communist” because I’m a supporter of the welfare system and hold the bankers who caused the world banking crisis in contempt.  I got very little support from Left-wingers, who should have rallied to my defence, and what I did get was rather lacklustre.

Despite the fact that many of my columns seemed to be Left-wing, I am, in fact, non-partisan and try to remain as impartial as possible as people would have seen if Labour had re-taken power and the ferociousness with which I would have attacked Labour for any mistakes or hateful policies they tried to enact.  This was something that I didn’t have a chance to show given that I only started talking about politics in the aftermath of the Tory victory in 2010 and something that my Right-wing critics seem to ignore because it would weaken their position.

2010 was an especially busy year for me as I joined a mental health service user involvement project that sought to train service users to go out and obtain the information required by the Mental Health Commissioners of Essex to put the money where it was most needed in terms of the services it commissioned.  For the three years of the project, I and many others travelled Essex to get the information we needed to improve the services for the mental health community of Essex.  After three long years and many broken promises by the Commissioners later, the project failed spectacularly, resulting in no improvements and giving the service users who did the work in good faith a bad reputation within the mental health service user community.  We did good work and got burned for it.

In 2012/13, I became involved with a local university’s service user and carer involvement programme for their Social Work Faculty.  I did good work trying to improve the readiness of the social work students for the ‘real world’ beyond their lecture rooms and to give them the sufferer perspective on depression.  I was praised for the work I did by lecturers and students alike and then I got dumped by the programme in 2014 for daring to use an expletive in one of my sessions which was, in fact, a direct quote from a social worker about his or her own service user which led to her suicide.  A Left-wing, nanny State policy was used to stop me from participating in work that would have improved the service provided to thousands.  I was burned, discarded and left psychologically devastated at a time when I was also in the middle of a teacher training course I was taking to help me underpin the work I was doing at the university whilst also going through a divorce and in imminent danger of losing my disability benefits.

Due to the circumstances I found myself in back in 2014 with all my good work left behind me in ashes, I disappeared from public view not wanting to waste my efforts on an increasingly hostile world.  I would return to my isolation to observe Humanity’s fall from grace.

I have watched the UK get torn apart by the Tory insistence on chipping away at every fault line, pitting one group against another, until the whole edifice of UK society started to crumble.  Demonising groups of individuals is their method to make their draconian policies palatable for the gullible masses and they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.

The EU Referendum was the final nail in the coffin for the UK’s soul because it chipped away at the one fault line left that even the Tories couldn’t control and allowed the Ultra-Right-wing to get a foothold in the country.  Hate fuelled by the Tories between different groups led to a nasty campaign that has allowed race-hatred to flourish alongside hatred towards the sick, the disabled, the poor and the jobless.

Despite my decision to isolate myself from the rest of society, I did get involved in a couple of marches in London and I have spoken out through my blog but what I have done has been largely ignored so I returned to my isolation and my role as the observer of The Fall.

The Tories are now going towards the Ultra-Right despite what some commentators say and they are now more openly fascistic than they were, bolstered no doubt by the rise of the Ultra-Right forces and sentiments within certain groups.

The one glowing beacon of hope was the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party but, scared by the danger he poses to the status quo, he is being systematically attacked by elements outside his party and from within.  Corbyn may have huge support but I’m afraid that, in such a hostile environment, he may not be able to turn things around.  Without a significant miracle, the UK’s soul is already lost to the Ultra-Right.

Having been abused by the Right and burned by the Left, I now sit outside the battle and have no reason or inclination to get involved again.  Should the future of an Ultra-Right-wing UK become a reality, I will surely be one of those who will be earmarked for the UK’s version of ‘The Final Solution’ because of my depression and I will die (as this is my fondest wish since the age of 11, I don’t see this as a negative thing) and so I see no reason to fight.  If a miracle happens and Corbyn’s supporters turn the tide, I will be safe but remain depressed.  I have no stake in the future as I have no children and I will be either dead at the hands of British Nazis or safe but forever depressed so, again, no real reason to get involved in what I increasingly see as your fight as I no longer feel a part of the human race.

The problem is, the threat to Humanity’s soul has spilled out into other countries and it could have been avoided if people had learned the lessons of history.  The Ultra-Right is in ascendance and Humanity has only itself to blame.

I tried to warn people and they ignored me.  I’m not a crank who believes he can see the future; I’m a man who tries to learn the lessons of history.  I could see history being repeated and can extrapolate the future that will evolve from current events if they are not changed.

Hitler was far from an aberration as he was once thought as.  Hitler was the forerunner of the dark times ahead for Humanity.

I will rise or fall with Humanity but I have tried to do my bit to improve lives and society and failed.  The fight is yours alone now because I’m out.

The Tories - Either they were fast or they were lying

The Tories have already broken some kind of new world record but I can’t tell which one it is.

A mere two days before the General Election which tragically gave the UK a Tory (read ‘Nazi’) majority ‘government’, the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, refused to say where the £12 billion in cuts to the welfare budget would be coming from because “we would have to have done the work on it, that’s why, and we would have to have reached agreement as to exactly where those are”.  The inference being that no work had been done on where the cuts should be made in the welfare budget.

The full section of the debate is reproduced here (taken from www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/iain-duncan-smith-admits-tories-5641217):

Asked to outline specific welfare cuts, he bleated: “As soon as we have done the work and had it properly modelled then we will let everybody know what that is.”

Shadow Minister Rachel Reeves slammed his response, saying: “People have a big choice to make in two days’ time.

"But it’s very difficult to make that choice when they don’t know what the choice is.”

Mr Duncan Smith was asked why it wasn’t “relevant” to explain where the axe would fall during BBC2’s Daily Politics welfare debate.

“Because we would have to have done the work on it, that’s why, and we would have to have reached agreement as to exactly where those are,” he said.

“Everyone is very clear that after the next election, you get a Conservative government - we have already said that we will save £12billion on essentially working-age benefits.

“The work that we do on this will be done in the Spending Review, and we will announce that.”

You can see the full debate here:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=__RAYwS_Uv4

This was also the story given by virtually any Tory who was asked about the cuts to the welfare budget, cuts that will negatively affect the most vulnerable people in the UK including the disabled.

Imagine my surprise, then, when, mere hours into the new administration, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) published the Impact Assessment on the cuts to the Access to Work fund that helps people and employers cover costs of disabilities that might be a barrier to work.

Wow!  That’s some quick work.  Yes, the policy was mooted back in March but, surely, if that was one of the areas they were looking at, the voting public should have been told.  Even areas of debate regarding cuts should have been mentioned as potential areas for cuts especially a cuts to a fund like Access to Work that helps people with visual or auditory problems get into and stay in work.

It’s quite funny how the Impact Assessment, obviously commissioned by the Tories, states that “[Spending] has risen significantly over the past five years … One of the significant strategic questions we face is how to establish the right balance between the need to support as many disabled people as possible and what it is reasonable to offer individual users” whilst the Tories stated in their manifesto that although "last year alone, 140,000 disabled people found work" also says that "the jobless rate for this group remains too high.” The Tories pledged that "As part of our objective to achieve full employment, we will aim to halve the disability employment gap: we will transform policy, practice and public attitudes, so that hundreds of thousands more disabled people who can and want to be in work find employment".

Does cutting the fund to help people with visual and auditory impairments get work really help with their pledge to halve the disability employment gap?  I don’t think so.

The fact that an Impact Assessment could be published so quickly into the new administration means that work was already being done on where the cuts in the welfare budget were coming from, the Tories just didn’t want anyone to know before the election because it might have affected their chances of winning (assuming that the public had some kind of moral compass that states that it’s wrong to punish the weak).

So the world record has to be for the quickest piece of work ever done, shouldn’t it?  Or should that be for the quickest a lie has been uncovered following an election?  I can’t make my mind up on this.  Which do you think is the least naive answer?

The quotes from the Impact Assessment and the Tory manifesto were sourced from http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/hours-after-the-election-the-dwp-says-it-is-looking-to-cut-a-disabled-access-to-work-scheme-10237191.html

UK Apocalypse has begun!

When the cuts started to bite during the first couple of years of the last administration in the UK following the 2010 General Election I predicted protests and riots across the UK.  Perhaps I was naive or just underestimated the amazing amount of tolerance the Great British public seems to possess when it comes to inequality and the inevitable deep cuts that come associated with a Tory ‘Government’ when the number and scale of protests and riots was nothing near my prediction.

However, I think the Great British public have reached beyond that point when earlier today, just a day into the new Tory-only administration, London was the scene of an impromptu protest.

It turned ugly.

Police became politicised in protecting the State over protecting its citizens and violence ensued.  I don’t think that this is the end of the trouble as, even though the police should be on the side of the protesters (given that their numbers have been slashed due to Tory cuts), as protests spring up, with their reduced numbers, the fewer police will have to contend with larger and larger crowds of protesters.  Fear of the sheer weight of numbers will lead police to become ever more brutal in trying to put down protesters and the violence will surely escalate on both sides.

I hope I’m wrong but I fear my former predictions weren’t of the 2010-2015 coalition administration but of the new Tory-only 2015-2020 administration and that I may have underestimated the troubled times that are to come.

If I’m right, the UK Apocalypse has begun and it may very well end in a lot of blood.

 

For some shocking footage, IN FULL, please visit this link - http://bambuser.com/v/5499931

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