"The Government are committed to tackling child poverty."
This tweet articulates a simple statistic.
Number of foodbanks in the UK:— Hasan Patel 🌹 (@CorbynistaTeen) December 29, 2019
2004 - 1
2008 - 22
2011 - 100
2012 - 252
2019 - 2,030 (1.6m food parcels)
It doesn’t have to be this way. That’s why I’ll continue fighting. You should too.
Foodbanks have increased since 2004, and the need has grown more rapidly since 2010. Low wages and benefit changes including sanctions are the driving factors in this enlargement of need. A huge escalation has occurred in 2020. Foodbanks and their growth are a signal that ordinary folk care about each other, and that the Ruling class care little for the lowest income class, the most economically vulnerable.
The UK, allied to the US Military Giant, invaded another Sovereign State, Iraq in 2003 on the pretext of a lie. Foodbank use started to grow after that.
Billions of UK Taxpayers funds have been wasted in UK/US sponsored bloodletting ever since. Where has all the money gone? It did not go to workers. It did not go to veterans. It did not go to the British people. It did not go to the British children. Some shareholders and CEOs made a lot of money out of this.
Foodbanks and Warfare.
Both are wholly avoidable phenomena. Both are the results of bad Government policy.
Poverty has been deliberately exacerbated by this run of Caring Conservative Governments since 2010.
It is also true, to be fair, that neither New Labour nor Conservative and Unionist or indeed Conservative - Liberal Democrat Coalition governments have ever had a policy of Abolishing Poverty, which is, to my mind, the only sound, socially adept, humane and logical policy stance possible in a 21st Century Democracy.
To allow poverty to persist is a deliberate cruelty.
Reducing poverty merely maintains poverty, and that is a political choice that serves the owners, the Oligarchies, who make profits from low wages and who use poverty and destitution as behavioural nudges, whips that allow them to dominate the working population. Maintaining poverty harms the people as a whole.
The Minimum Wage is a very bad joke, a lie, a deceit. It is an act of cruelty.
This is an abuse dynamic and it is also masked by a key Christian ideological dynamic, one which underlies Capitalism.
"The poor you will always have with you" Matthew 26:11 is a core teaching of Christianity, we are told.
Jesus said so, it is written. There is, of course, no prima facie evidence He did say this. But it has been written so. And he was not the only one. It is previously mentioned in Deuteronomy.
"England is a Christian Nation" said Theresa May. She did say that. It is recorded in Hansard. There is no record in Hansard of any British Prime Minister proposing a policy of abolishing poverty. The Bible and Hansard are in accord, they are congruent. The poor you will always have with you.
For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.
The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you will not always have Me.
The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me."
And in the hands of the Merchant Puritan, whose sponsorship built great Churches, invented Racism, provided Colonial conquest with a cover story, that teaching became Wealth is God's sign of approval, Poverty is His sign of disapproval, and therefore Poverty is obviously a personal flaw, a sin of the poor, rather than the structural imposition that it really is.
Colston's Charity assuages guilt without correcting the problem.
Sir Edward Colston's statue stood the test of time, only because successive generations venerated his philanthropy over honesty in History.
Prosperity Gospel and New Age Abundance ideology are variations of the same toxic thinking. The arrogance and delusion of the billionaire class, the beautiful people, is that they believe that are innately superior to the ordinary folk, and that their innate superiority is why they are so wealthy.
Burning £50 notes in front of homeless rough sleepers. Spaffing £53 million on a paper bridge to nowhere. Spaffing £12 million on an already unworkable contact tracing app, when a free and entirely functional version was already available and on offer. Someone trousered a lot of cash for nothing. Value for money?
A very public school boy aptitude, and such teachings were also aimed at the patriotic working class who were urged to move up the property ladder, who were conned into servicing debt (£1.8 trillion as we write today, and rising) to gain wealth, to convince them of their own worthiness, to assert their innate superiority, and to underpin the inferiority of those who are forced to endure poverty, or who come to this country to do the essential but low paid work. People who are then blamed for 'stealing our jobs'.
The 'comedic' abuse of Little Britain, and 'edutainments' such as 'Benefits Street' and others serve to embed that discrimination, disguised as culture, into the patriotic consciousness. Shop for Britain.
Laughing at, rather than with, the vulnerable. Very British.
Iain Duncan Smith opposes Universal Basic Income as one method to assist the working population through the worst of the Corona Virus epidemic on the basis that it will work as a disincentive to work.
Treasury officials claim that furlough has become an addiction.
Boris Johnson hopes the virus will go away, urges that we get back to work before it is eliminated from the population.
He means 'we the workers' given that his personal work rate is minimal for someone in his position.
He also has the happy arrogance of assumed immunity. The Reaper passed him by. I am glad of that for his sake, and for the sake of his fiance and new child. That does not mean I am glad he is in office. How could this be, knowing what he is participating in, understanding the harm it is causing?
Gavin Williamson tried to bully parents, students and teachings by shaming them with the distress his Governments policies are creating for many people, as emotional blackmail.
Ministers have misled, lied and gaslighted the public.
Observing this one is drawn to the conclusion that this is indeed an abusive relationship dynamic, posing as a system of Democratic Governance.
150,000 excess deaths over a decade.
60,000 excess deaths over a 4 month first wave of an epidemic.
All wholly avoidable, all caused by UK Government policy.
An abuse dynamic if ever I have seen one.
This begs the question, what on earth is happening within the UK? Why is this being allowed to continue? Who is responsible for this?
Corona Virus Policy variations, Evidence, Belief and Opinion.
The worlds best researchers in epidemiology, public health science and health and social care are an international, supra national collective of serious minded, open minded people whose entire focus is evidence based.
New Zealand Government studied the work and the experience of that community with regards to COVID19, and they took action based on that evidence and experience.
The New Zealander people are now free of the virus - it is not being transmitted person to person within the population - apart from two British residents who imported it as they were allowed entry to see a dying parent, and who are now in treatment and isolation, along with c.300 people they might have infected - and New Zealand economy is strong. It took the New Zealanders, Government and people together, 11 weeks to achieve this happy state. They remain vigilant.
The UK Government chose a different path. Deliberately. Just as they continue to choose not to abolish poverty. Just as they chose to invade Iraq.
They chose to game the virus to rerig the economy in Shock Doctrine fashion. The policy is obviously not based on evidence, rather it is based on a belief, an opinion. But what belief, what opinion?
That choice has caused 60,000+ excess deaths in 4 months.
The policy decisions of the UK Government have caused a whole other bunch of problems that have exacerbated the situation.
Deliberate choices.
PPE shortages, sending patients back into care homes, permitting care workers to move from facility to facility, no provision of Fever Hospitals, focus on home made contact trace apps when there already were apps up and running and offered for free, in Europe, repetitive patterns of wasteful expenditure that did not stop the spread, rather each new policy decision guaranteed the spread, in toto imposing shut down without much effort to stop the spread or to provide fullest support to the people going through the shut down, easing their pre-existing burdens, lying all the time, even going as far as gaslighting the public.
The UK Government and it's sponsors - Robert Mercer, Arron Banks, right wing Hedge Funders, Cambridge Analytica et al - have been very carefully blaming those problems on the virus and the people, there has been a dedicated online campaign across many platforms to whisper in people's ears this narrative of the Hoax, the Chinese Virus, the Flu, the NWO across New Ager, Alt-right and Christian networks of influence.
All designed to groom vulnerable and gullible targets into breaking the stay home, stay safe protocol so that they can be blamed for any resurgent peaks. And of course, being arrogant, the believers are falling for the play.
It takes humility to stand on evidence, to eschew opinion and belief.
The arrogance of the the believers and the opinionated walking hand in hand with the callous cruelty of the Establishment whilst they believe, crying "Freedom!" and "Take Back Control!" that they are resisting the Establishment.
Satire or Irony are inadequate to this horrific situation.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
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