When Keir Starmer and other western leaders, all other western leaders claim there is no money for supporting the poor, they’re citing their preference, not the reality.
The Labour Tory Party government is basically doing everything a right wing, neoliberal government is doing, cutting support for poor and sick people, and giving more to the wealthy and the powerful. The scrapping of the universal winter fuel allowance, the recent assault on disabled rights and refusing to implement a wealth tax is just a tiny bit of that.
They claim there is no money for the poor and ill and infirm people, but that is easily fixed by stopping socialism for the rich and the massive funding of the military. This is a matter of priorities, and the establishment priorities are clear.
Major parts of the UK population have fallen into destitution and poverty during the recent decade or so. Various UK Tory governments including the latest Labour Tory Party government are spearheading the development, but the rest of Europe is following their lead. People are kept in deliberate poverty, and those in charge keep making it worse, refusing to do what would be easy steps to improve the situation.
Growing old and/or infirm should not be a threatening experience, but in today's brutal western society it is.
All people in the western countries should get it, should realize that their establishment is a sinister network of fascists. It is long overdue.
Yes, there is no limit to the true depravity of the ruling class. They would do anything, and I mean anything, to stay in power. Anyone putting any faith in their humanity is dangerously naive.
When I say "true depravity" by the way, it has nothing to do with sexual acts, but with their beyond cruel acts of oppression.
Watching those leaders in the last five years has really brought the point home to me. They are clearly the worst of us, and can easily and unfavorably be compared to the bully in the sandbox. The top of the list of horrors is their very creation of the Ukraine war, and pushing it to the brink of WW3. The support of the zionist genocide in Palestine is even worse. No wonder they treat their own population like shit, like dirt under their heal.
One inevitable conclusion from a long life:
There are no redeeming circumstances in the western countries. While the leaders of other countries actually care about their citizens, western leaders don't. Both in obvious and concealed ways, they're a bunch of irredeemable Nazis.
The western establishment and its stooges keep presenting their nightmarish fantasy as truth. They are far more out there than any fictional story.
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I used to believe that western countries were no better, no worse than other countries. Establishment stooges saw even that as a radical viewpoint.
They could not stomach it when anyone criticized their perceived paradise.
Anyway, I have long since changed my mind. Western countries are far worse.
So totally on the nail I observe from Central America. Some years back I predicted that, post Brexit, the UK would become a de-facto Slave Island. It's happening. Brexit effectively trapped the people. Thanks as always for your very prescient articles.
Good to read your substack posts