The Cost of Tory Crisis

It’s taking lives, again

For those not from the UK, a Tory is basically a conservative. They’re a watered-down version of a Republican. And I’m not here for a political debate. If you’re a Tory and you believe in everything they’ve been doing recently, you’re a bad person. It is that simple. If you’re on board with the Tories, you’re on board with:

Children going to bed hungry

Parents starving themselves so their children can eat

The systematic privatisation of the NHS

Violence against refugees

Attempts to deny the rights of trans people

Abolishing the right to protest

Attempting to abolish the right to strike

Massive tax breaks for the super-wealthy

People being forced to choose between food and rent

And so on.

No Empathy

Suella Braverman is human garbage, a vile piece of hypocritical scum who would turn her back on people in their hour of need. Rishi Sunak has a swinging brick in place of a heart and doesn’t care one single bit about children being hungry. Jacob-Rees-Mogg fully admitted that the party had been gerrymandering. And that’s without mentioning that walking hessian sack of gonorrhoea, Boris Johnson.

Now, I know things aren’t as bad as they are in the USA, people aren’t being shot en masse every single day. And they aren’t as bad as other places where war rages on. But I’m still allowed to be mad as hell about it.

I wrote about a woman pushed to the brink of suicide in my story here:

It Happened Again…..and Again

Yesterday, another young woman was pushed to the same brink, only she jumped. Thankfully, she didn’t die. She did suffer severe injuries to her legs. But the point is, she jumped. She was trying to end her life.

As I was hanging out the washing (laundry) this morning, I heard a lot of sirens, so I went upstairs to my bedroom to see what I could see. Firefighters, police, ambulance, and a police helicopter. The same as yesterday.

My neighbour came round to let me know how her golden retriever’s third lot of chemo went. And if you’re interested, it went well, and she’s showing some good signs.

“Did you hear all that racket earlier? There’s another woman on the bridge, the one by Tesco, our Ellen was in the train station, and she saw it all. They got her down again, thank god.”

Three women in less than two weeks. Now I know suicide rates are astronomical. Someone kills themselves every 40 seconds around the world. So, naturally, they need help, but there’s a Tory-shaped problem.

It takes 95% of people 18 weeks to see a mental health professional. A GP will declare them either urgent or non-urgent. Not a counsellor, not a therapist, a GP. No disrespect to GPs they’re doing their best with what they’ve been lumbered with, at the moment. But the thing about non-urgent mental health problems is they can become urgent in the blink of an eye. Some deteriorations in mental health are gradual some are alarmingly rapid.

So to have to wait 18 weeks due to Tory budget cuts clearly puts lives at risk. Do they care? No. They don’t care that they’re making the world a much worse place as long as their little world is okay. As long as their kids aren’t hungry, and as long as their relatives aren’t jumping off bridges.

He Starved to Death

Even after people like 57-year-old Errol Graham (in the main picture) starved to death because his benefits had been cut, they still don’t care. Graham was found dead in his home by bailiffs, they had been sent to evict him because he hadn’t paid his rent for seven months. He weighed four and a half stone (30kg/66lbs)

What kind of heartless monsters know that they did that and shrug, saying, “Oh well.” Just reading it makes me want to vomit with rage and sadness.

You Can’t Blame Covid, Blame the Response to it.

When I volunteered for the foodbank, the general manager, David, would often get asked what caused the massive increase in foodbank usage. Was it Covid? He would always reply with, “No, it was the Tories. They will let people starve to death quite happily.”