Well, the NHS bill will pass and the one thing that made me proud of the UK will be dismembered. A brief moment in human history where people decided to put their shared humanity above profit is over.
My reaction to this in itself has not been of anger - just depression. Depressed that the ideology of greed has won out, again. Depressed that all the evidence relating to efficacy and efficiency has been ignored by our lords and masters so that they can impose this ideology on everyone else, again. (And make a tidy profit, naturally). Depressed that the vast majority of my fellow citizens couldn't give a shit, again.
What has made me angry is that all of this is being forced upon younger people by a group that enjoyed all the benefits of the things that they are gleefully taking away from us. They had the free and comprehensive healthcare; they had the free education from nursery to post-graduate level; they had the rail system that had reasonable fares; they had the postal service that cost the same and gave the same service regardless of who you were or on what far-flung island you may have lived; they had the police service and forensic service that was dedicated to public service and not profit; they had a public library, whatever town they came from; they had a welfare safety-net that treated them somewhat like human-beings and not as defective work-drones to be vilified and abused; they had a pension system that would protect them from penury in old-age. All of this they had and all of this they have or will take away from those that have had the misfortune to have been born after them. They are loathsome.
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