Voting Labour or Green today, this is my third General Election and I suspect once again my vote will go to waste as it has done both times prior.
The fact that May looks set to win is about as depressing as I can possibly imagine. Why people consistently vote against their needs is always beyond me. Exactly at what moment have the Conservatives proven themselves worthy to be in government over the last 7 years or so?
- Practically Doubled the National Debt (£958bn in 2010 is now £1.7? Trillion in 2017)
- Nearly broke up the United Kingdom
- Gave us the EU referendum, just to keep a few back benchers happy. Robbing Generations of everything the EU offers.
- Cut Public Services over and over again
- Bedroom Tax
- The demoralizing and hounding of our Disabled
- Popularizing Zero Hour Contracts, leaving so many with no stable income.
- Privatizing the NHS, while also leaving the system in tatters and open to attack despite warnings.
- Missed every single Immigration target they have set by a HUGE MARGIN
But then I hear you say well at least they can handle Brexit better than Labour, because they are stable and sensible and May is a bloody difficult woman?
- She has already given up the Single Market before negotiations
- She has already given up the Customs Union before negotiations
- She wants Free Trade with the rest of the world but not the biggest Trade partner we (and the biggest in the world) already have!?
Basically she has already made this about as easy as she can by giving up mostly everything of value. But it's okay because No Deal is Better than a Bad Deal? cue obnoxious cheer from idiots. Anything different to what we currently have is a BAD DEAL, no if's or buts it just is. So a No Deal might as well be the equivalent of aiming the reticle directly at ourselves and pushing the red button. Also I'm pretty sure No Deal is about the easiest stance you can possibly make when negotiating, it certainly requires the least amount of thought. Yay for strong and stable leadership now lets run with our tails between our legs.
Then there is the Conservative Manifesto, which I'm pretty sure has not a single positive thing in it. Who cares about hope and making things better? not when these Strong and Stable (which is a joke by this point) Conservatives can continue to make all our lives worse. Here are the main pledges in that Manifesto
- Your House will now need to pay for your Social Care, so in your time of need you'll be safe in the knowledge that the nest egg you worked your whole life for is being whittled away and put into the pockets of the government and not those you love.
- No more free meals for our Children, because you know what deserves votes more than the image of more Hungry children.
- No more Triple Lock on your pension
- Removal of Winter Fuel payments
- Promising once again to get net migration down to 100,000 despite years of failure in doing so
- Promising to Fund the NHS £8bn extra by 2023.
Okay so lets be real here 90% of that is depressing as ****. Why would anyone want to vote for this? Because of the Brexit stuff!? You can't be serious. Not only that the 10% positive stuff of NHS funding and migration to some degree is still something they absolutely cannot be trusted on. Not even abit. The NHS is in crisis under the conservatives and as I've mentioned they have missed every single migration target year on year.
Also it's perhaps worth mentioning that not a single part of it is COSTED! Yet apparently it's Labour that have a money problem not the Conservatives with their uncosted Manifesto and doubling of the National Debt and crippling of our Public Services. Seriously the idiocy of people is enough to make me get so frustrated. The Conservatives are and always will be the Nasty Party, they will never have your best interests at heart. They aren't in Government for you they are in Government for themselves and those that got them there to begin with. They are the posh boys, toffs or wannabe posh boys and toffs and couldn't relate to you and your life for a single moment.
Do you remember the Labour Government? 1997-2010? I don't know about you but the UK seemed like a much happier place back then. Sure they weren't perfect, the Iraq War was a huge mistake and the Financial Crash while not their fault happened with them in charge. But I remember being much happier back then, as was my family and the families of friends. Families weren't on Foodbanks, they weren't Taxed just because they had successfully brought up their child and they had left home i.e Bedroom Tax. The NHS wasn't in crisis, not perfect sure but certainly healthier than it is now. The streets were safer. Things were just nicer from what I recall, not quite so bleak and depressing. Parties like UKIP and their blatant racism were a joke, not serious candidates. As a Nation we thrived under Labour, as I say not everything was great but we were better for it.
Don't let fear misguide you, take a chance on hope and don't trample on your own future as well as the futures of others. A vote for the Conservatives is a vote for further misery, anger, separatism and depression. It's a vote for crippling our public services and further enlarging the gap between the have and the have not's. Don't be fooled by their scare mongering and pursuit to make sure that you don't have a bright future and neither do your kids.
Now with all that off of my chest I will spend the rest of this miserable day watching Anime before checking the exit poll and crying myself to sleep while cursing this moronic country.
