I don’t often post political
statements on social media. This is because social media has become a cesspit
of childish dummy-spitting for topics like politics. I also find people get trapped in continually posting political opinions and only getting
themselves more wound up than anything else. Social media seems to have become
a place to force opinions on others with the wall of non-personal contact, or
to troll for the sole purpose of degrading others. However, we face a crisis in
our society and I want to say my little piece at this volatile time.
Politics has changed in the
last decade or two. It used to be that you could get away with a little lie
here and there, and the rest of the lies behind the scenes. We have a situation
now where it’s okay to lie straight to our faces and there be no consequences.
The NHS bus situation and promises of funding is a clear example. The NHS is
being underfunded when promises were made to invest. How can we as a people let
this stand? The conservative party have made cuts in all fundamental areas, and stomped on the principles that good people have fought for over the last 400
years.
Our country has done so many horrific things in the past: use of opium
in china, unprecedented horrors in Africa, and subjugation of its own people in
poverty and ignorance, to name but a few. That said, as a whole the good people
have been doing their best to change our countries future so it isn’t like the
past. The hard work to change the terrible past of the British Empire is being
destroyed by self serving, cold hearted and cruel people. They care nothing for
the people around them. They do a little bit of good, thinking it justifies the
neglect they practice almost everywhere else. They don’t see the pains of the
hard working people of this country. The teachers, nurses, police, fire
fighters, care workers, doctors, and many more need our support. They need less
hours and better wages for the incredible sacrifices they make on a daily
bases. Without these hard working people our country would collapse. It is
collapsing. People are actually dying of stress related mental health
struggles, mostly caused by being overworked and not getting the right help
when ill.
I was lucky enough to be saved
by nurses four years ago when I had a mental and physical health breakdown. However, with
the cutbacks now, and the neglect of support for mental health within this
country, I believe I wouldn’t make it if I suffered now as I did then. I nearly
didn’t make it then. The current environment is increasingly being filled by
criminally related mental health patients, which needs its own support facilities,
not the ones for those with non-criminal related mental health struggles. It’s
likely I wouldn’t be given access to the facilities I got in 2015 due to
the incredible high demand at this time. My mental health was so bad I would
have killed myself without the support I had. I would have died and not be here
to write this. Let that sink in for a moment as I try not to cry while writing
this. There are people right now who are dying because they don’t have the
support they need. This is because cutbacks are being made in all the wrong
places.
The current state of our
country is horrible at the grassroots level. There needs to be a dramatic
change. We need to get back to a socially responsible society. We need those in
positions of power to show love and kindness towards the less financially fortunate.
We don’t need to give much in relative terms to support our fellow human
beings. We need to move away from the ‘them vs us’ mentality when it comes to those
in poverty. Families are relying on foodbanks to survive. It’s fucked up. The
selfish, and a lot of the rich (not all obviously), cloud themselves in a, ‘I
work hard and they don’t,’ attitude. It’s deluded. Anyone who has worked in the
above service type jobs has worked as hard, if not way harder, than most people
in this country. The government is meant
to be for the people. We need to vote for those who desire the best for the
grassroot people and families. Without this we are going to find ourselves in
an even more brutal and self serving environment in the coming years. We need
to change things now before we get too far down this destructive path.
I will not tell you which party
you should vote for as that is wrong on many levels in my opinion. I simply beg
you to consider what I’ve said and open your hearts to love and happiness, not
fleeting financial selfishness. The government has the money to support its
people, but it has let bankers, financiers, politicians and big companies walk all over the
common people. Money is important, but we have been lied to. The money is there
to create the jobs, and fund our community’s most important positions. That’s
why we get taxed. If the money isn’t there then it’s being used for other
things it shouldn’t be. Please make sure you realise that when you make your
choice.
