Playing the System

If tabloid newspapers and government propaganda are to be believed, and by so many people it is, then a massive black hole in government spending lies at fault with those in our society who refuse to get an honest job to earn an honest wage. I'm not sure what they mean by an "honest wage" (the system is corrupt) but with so much of it floating around then 'Honesty' should replace the 'Pound' as the next currency come 2014 leaving politicians financially and morally bankrupt (*BA-DOOM CHA*!).

Master of puns though I am I must be serious for a few moments. I have something to confess that I don't find easy to say . . . aside from the numerous holes in the logic (and mathematics of trying to force more people into fewer jobs will work and racism and homophobia and encouragement of sociopath behaviour) I am genuinely pained to admit this but, well - the right-wingers are . . . right. For the first time. 

Even this clock is correct twice a day. That's twice more then the Tories have been correct about anything else.

Correct at least in that we have serious situation in this country regarding State handouts. Thank God that George Osborne has finally grown a back bone, now we can get this country back on track. We've developed a culture where a family can live comfortably on these handouts and not need to work. It has been recently revealed to me that a SINGLE family is currently costing the British tax payer 32.2 MILLION POUNDS a year and have no shame in their expense. This particular family do not work for a living wage, pay no taxes, contribute nothing to society at large, live a life of luxury off state money and LOVE to flash it around, spend hundreds of thousands a year socialising and travelling to foreign countries (justifying these as essential), breed to perpetuate their life-style of privilege and get given a mansion to accommodate them all in the most expensive city in England. The tabloids call these people "Benefit Scroungers" but commonly they're known as the "Royals'.

"...and then he said the "Royals". It was HYSTERICAL!"

But seriously, why are they still here?

Meanwhile, in the muddy surf fields below Buckingham palace's 'wave-to-the-peseants' morale balcony the average "honest" worked and hard taxed members of our society are continuously feeling the screws being tightened on their finances. Stress levels are high as are the suicide rates. So damaged are the working classes this unwavering attack on their life-styles (because for some mad reason the Government wants to protect the current gambling nature of the western banking system, white washing any media coverage of countries who have counted their debt as illegal or purely a private sector matter) the working classes are turning on those who rely on state handouts to survive as class-war propaganda takes it's effect.

I know that the established system is a tough mistress to challenge but historically courage and comrad spirit has been what it's taken to do some thing about our problems. Yet rather then drag themselves up and further away from the borderline of poverty by fighting back economic oppression it appears more people would rather see the most vulnerable suffer to new lows. Rather then push back up against the state they would rather kick those who are already down. Deluded that by pushing the bar further down they have a greater standard of living (proportional) to those who are jobless, ignoring the history and purpose of the system they are attacking - TO STOP WORKERS WHO ARE OUT OF WORK STARVING, THEIR FAMILIES SUFFERING OR TURNING CRIMINAL TO SURVIVE. Because it doesn't just happen to the lazy or single moms or people who want to play the system. It can and will happen at some point to everyone. Gone are the days of leaving your job in the morning an having another by afternoon. I'm sure they won't be quite so hostile when they find themselves queueing for their first jobseekers booklet.

1979 Tory propaganda . . .



. . . is now a parody of itself.

George Osborne recently declared that state benefits for the sick would continue to be cut and jobseekers payments would be frozen below inflation levels for the next three years. A few days ago I read a news story of how thousands of working families now rely on food banks to survive. The next story broke my heart. A woman in her 50's walked 20 miles to reach her nearest food bank. Her feet were raw and in agony.

It is with this agony in mind that I'd like to sarcastially congratulate the latest Scrounger - I mean, Royal, Kate Middleton, on achieving the utterly unremarkable task of getting pregnant. Who would have thought it huh? A young and newly wed straight couple have unprotected sex and then expect a child. It's a bloody miracle. Truly a unique and wonderful force of nature and goodness in the world. And during an economic down-turn too! It's almost as if they can afford to have one because they don't have money troubles. Tabloid and broadsheet newspapers united in the celebration of Kate Middleton's new S.T.I. The Daily Mail outdid themselves with a thirteen page spread of how the Royals have perpetuated the cycle of gaining state handouts by breeding of the last twenty years but I don't think others saw the same point I saw.

Women get pregnant all the time. In fact I'll bet you fifty quid that your own mother was pregnant once (and I'll bet you double she'll testify that it was all your dad's fault). Some women are pregnant without realising it. Even men get pregnant these days. Everybody is doing it.

But not everybody has unicorns or born under a double rainbow. Sorry Kate but north Korea's got you beat.

Finally the Commonwealth have taken the extra step of changing the rule of succession so that, regardless of gender, the kid can be third in line to the throne. Possibly the fastest law change I've ever seen. We as a nation celebrate and encourage these scroungers to continue breeding by becoming hysterical when they get married and spawn everywhere. At least it's decent to see so many countries working so swiftly and tirelessly together to eradicate gender inequalities, even if it's only beneficial for one person. One unborn super-privileged rich person, I suppose.