"Nobody ever gave me anything, I worked for it all"

Next time some rightwing numpty shitposts this bullshit, perhaps you'd like to remind them that they have been given ALL of the following, without which they could not possibly be where they are today.

• A safe clinical environment within which their mother gave birth to them
• Immunisation from the some of the deadliest diseases
• Lifelong healthcare and support
• Education until the age of 16 with the opportunity to go further
• National and local public transport 
• Public roads
• Public pavements and streetlighting
• Sanitation and clean drinking water
• National power grid
• National gas infrastructure
• Clean beaches and rivers
• Access to sports of all kinds
• Extensive legislation to enhance and protect the human and employment rights of their parents and themselves

And much, much more.
Nobody gave you anything? Give your head a wobble!

A Labour government has never achieved anything?

AKA "All governments are useless and don't do anything except look after themselves".
Next time you hear this, remind Sammy Shitpost that the previous Labour government gave us the following:

1. Civil Partnership
2. The Human Rights Act
3. Freedom of Information act
4. Disability Rights Commission
5. Enhanced employment rights
6. 2009 Autism Act
7. The Electoral Commission
8. Department For International Development
9. Banned foxhunting
10. £2bn Communities Program
11. Rural Development Program
12. Free bus passes for over 60's
13. Banned cluster bombs
14. Ban on new grammar schools
15. Banned cosmetic testing on animals
16. Free breast cancer screening
17. Started Crossrail
18. Minimum wage and the low pay commission and tax credits
19. 18% increase in wages
20. Largest drop in relative poverty including 900,000 pensioners
21. Doubled funding of education
22. 42,400 extra teachers
23. Sure start
24. Reduced operation waiting times for 240,000 people to almost 0
25. Record low waiting times for A&E
26. Waiting times overall down to a max of 18 weeks (lowest ever)
27. Decreased homelessness by 73%
28. Free eye tests for over 60's
29. Free TV licences for over 75's
30. Extended opening times for GP practices
31. Free prescriptions for cancer patients
32. Free part time nursery places for every 3-4 yr old
33. Reduced school class sizes
34. 93,000 more 11 yr-olds achieving numeracy each year
35. Increased annual leave to 28 days minimum
36. Increased child benefit by over 26%
37. Put £20bn into improving social housing
38. Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 1960s
39. 10 years' continuous economic growth
40. Heart disease deaths down by 150,000
41. Removed minimum donation limit from Gift Aid
42. Reduced NHS waiting lists overall by over 500,000
43. Oversaw rise in school leavers with 5 good GCSEs from 45% to 76%
44. Brought in young person's job guarantee, pension credit
45. Doubled registered childcare spaces
46. Points based immigration
47. Equalised the age of consent
48. Halved the number of nukes
49. Free school fruit and milk
50. Free entry to galleries and museums
51. Wrote off up to 100% debt for poorest countries
52. Doubled apprenticeships
53. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75%
54. 44,000 extra doctors
55. 89,000 extra nurses
56. 16,000 extra police officers
57. Paternity leave
58. Raised legal age of buying cigarettes to 18
59. Banned tobacco advertising in magazines, newspapers and billboards
60. Introduced the Smoking Ban

And more!

The Tories are trying to kill us all

Grenfell Tower was bad enough. But there's all this:

Almost 600 “additional” suicides could be related to the Government’s Work Capability Assessments, according to a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/11/16/dwp-suicides-assessments-research_n_8577038.html

30,000 premature deaths linked to fuel poverty and lack of social care.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/nhs-cuts-excess-deaths-30000-study-research-royal-society-medicine-london-school-hygiene-martin-a7585001.html

A study published in the British Medical Journal found that for each additional 10,000 people re-assessed, there were an extra 6 suicides, 2,700 additional reports of mental health problems and an additional 7020 antidepressant items prescribed.

https://medium.com/@adamdawkins/this-general-election-is-a-matter-of-life-and-death-eab9c8358bea

Statistics released by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) revealed that during the period December 2011 and February 2014 2,380 people died after their claim for employment and support allowance (ESA) ended because a work capability assessment (WCA) found they were found fit for work.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/27/thousands-died-after-fit-for-work-assessment-dwp-figures

Additionally:

The NHS lost 7301 acute hospital beds since 2010. The Red Cross called it a humanitarian crisis. 20 A&E departments are set to close over the next 2 years, though the state of the government may put a stop to that.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-hunt-urged-stop-hiding-9581260

Altogether 15,000 NHS beds have been lost in the last 6 years.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/20/nhs-breaking-point-now-norm-says-bma-bed-reductions-revealed/

Mental health care cuts in England 'to total £4.5m'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/mental-health-nhs-funding-cut-millions-five-england-regions-1-billion-spent-2021-scarborough-walsall-a7700476.html
Since I wrote this is it has come to light that 120,000 needless deaths have been caused by NHS cuts and austerity,
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND
NEEDLESS
DEATHS
I wrote last year that people were dying at the rate of 80 per month over and above the normal death rates we expect to see in the UK, and that based on current estimates, by Jan 2018 or 2019 *at the very latest*, Tory policies would have killed more UK citizens than died in the UK during the WHOLE of WW2 as a result of the blitz and other Nazi action.
67,200 civilians died in the UK during WW2 but today's numbers make my original estimate look wildly optimistic.

The Tories have now killed nearly DOUBLE the number of UK citizens than the Nazis killed in the UK during the whole of WW2.

Just let that sink in for a minute.

Journalists and Pundits and #GrenfellTower

Peston: "One reason why the Grenfell tragedy has shaken so many of us is because it exposes so much of what's wrong with the way this place has been run for years.....  It shames us all." (Peston's Post here)

Sorry, Robert, I like you better than most of them but it didn't need this to expose what's wrong with the way the country has been run for so many years. 

This was NOT necessary. It was NOT needed. Not by us, not by anyone with eyes in their head. 

The fact that it took this horrible, awful, dreadful event to shake you lot out of your self satisfied little huddle is not just shaming, it's a national disgrace. You lot are there to do the research, find the facts and speak truth to power, and instead you lap up the power and speak truth to no-one. Ashamed? You should take a year off and have a long hard look at yourselves - in private. 

Tens of thousands - hundreds of thousands of us - have been banging on about this for YEARS. 

All you journalists and commentators and pundits in your cozy little bubble - media complicit with politicians churning out the government approved version of reality, cheerfully and smugly legitimising and enabling it all. You are every bit as responsible as the politicians for this disaster. 

The supreme irony is that you dismissed us out of hand as being "in a bubble shouting into a social media echo chamber" when it was you lot all along. When our "bubble" turns out to have encompassed hundreds of thousands on behalf of - as the election has shown - millions, it's not called a bubble, it's called "the country". You few thousand in the Westminster/media compact were the ones in a bubble, and it has well and truly burst. 

And now you've got the brass balls to attempt to reclaim the narrative and mainsplain it all back to us. Bollocks, mate. Bollocks. 

We don't need your opinion, your analysis, your contrived "disaster voice" for the camera or your crocodile tears for a human tragedy that you and your chums are responsible for.

Alan Davis on The Last Leg

It beggars belief that some half-pissed millionaire "metropolitan elite" privileged Tory boy can come on a show like The Last Leg - which used to have some integrity, and incidentally used to be pretty funny - and tell the 650,000-strong Labour membership (the ones that democratically elected, and then RE- elected Jeremy Corbyn, anyway), and the wider population who for the first time in a decade or more no longer feel disenfranchised by the political landscape of millionaire and billionaires like Osborne, Mandelson and Blair, that they have no right to a voice, no right to political representation, no right to choose their representative, and all because that one person has issues with who they perceive Jeremy Corbyn to be (as if the leadership of The Labour Party has, or should have, anything to do with personality in the first place: it's the policy, stupid).

So thank you, Alan Davis, for putting us all straight there. We'll just go back to marching in our millions against an unjustified war for oil that you probably think was a jolly good wheeze (since you hate Corbyn so much and he's almost the only surviving politician who spoke against it) and have our rights and benefits stripped from us and continue to pay our taxes with no representation.

Cheers. Don't expect me to allow your face on my telly again any time soon though.

And as for The Last Leg - I expect they'll have Katie Hopkins and Kelvin McKenzie on next, so we can be told we've no right to keep going on about Hillsborough or seek justice over Orgreave. 

I know they justify this stuff with "hey, we're a comedy show, it's all just a big laugh" but really - this is a show which started its life during the Paralympics, FOR the Paralympics, as it were - hosted by people with disabilities - which has gone on to give disabled people a voice, visibility, credibility and so on, and used to stand for something, unless I'm very much mistaken.

For that show to use cheap personal abuse to continue the utterly unjustifiable hounding of Jeremy Corbyn from office when they know full well that in the last 7 years

• Thousands of people have died from benefit sanctions; 
• All disabled people specifically have had £30 a week cut from their already meagre incomes; 
• Some people now have to have baths naked in a paddling pool in the front room because their houses have been taken away; 
• People have been made homeless or driven to ruin over the hated "bedroom tax"
• Thousands of disabled people have lost their jobs, and effectively their whole lives, having had their mobility vehicles stripped from them;
• Thousands more stand to lose their homes altogether now that landlords have a free reign to charge anything they like for homes that do not even have to be fit for human habitation but housing benefit is severely capped. 
• The disabled of this country are being shoved off a cliff edge by the same millionaires that are, and vote for, the Tory party. Millionaires like Alan Davis.

Have some fucking integrity with your "comedy", mate. Jeez.

Workhouses For The Disabled Just Got One Step Closer

Step One:
Make sure everyone has their motability vehicle taken away.

Step Two:
Declare everyone "fit for work".


Step Three:
Corral everyone into "care homes".   <---- We Are Here

Step Four:
Because no-one has any transport and the "care home" is miles from anywhere, bring the work to them.


Step Five:
Make being "allowed" to stay in the "care home" dependent on doing the work you are told to do, regardless of your ability or will.


Step Six:
Make sure your friends in the media call this anything BUT an enforced slave labour workhouse.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/25/disabled-people-disabilities-health-care-homes?CMP=share_btn_tw

Your government hates you and wants you to die.

I'm starting to believe that somewhere in the late 2000's the Tory think tanks decided that the population of the uk needed to be cut by around 5-20% if there were to be any chance of enslaving the rest of us for their personal profit and pocketing every last red cent, and for the last 6 years we've been seeing the start of the cull.

Look at the Red North posts, the state of the NHS, the suicides, the tens of thousands of deaths attributable to "austerity" of the old, the homeless… look at all the available evidence and tell me I'm wrong. 

Please.

Since this written it has come to light that NHS cuts and austerity are being blamed for 120,000 needless deaths.

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND.

NEEDLESS.

DEATHS.

This is reported on social media everywhere at the moment and also in the MSM like the HateMail (to whom I will not link).

When I wrote this originally people were dying needlessly at the rate of about 8o a month.

Based on this - the premature deaths of over 9,500 welfare claimants and 27,000 "extra" deaths among the elderly - I estimated that by the end of winter 2017 or *at best* 2018 the Tories would have killed more UK citizens that the Nazis did in the whole of WW2 - a mere 67,200.

Today's report makes that look WILDLY optimistic. They have already surpassed the death toll of the blitz and the bombings of Coventry and elsewhere by nearly double.