Rant 124 3/5/12 Subject: Voting

Rant number 124


Today I went round the corner to vote. To be honest - as the polling station is a literal stones throw from my house (despite this, they still struggled to find it - planks) this did not involve extensive effort on my part.

If it had however, I would still have gone to vote. People fought long and hard to get the right to vote for everyone equally (except for children, but who cares what they think anyway?) People died for this fundamental right and it would be a horrible and disgusting mark of disrespect to forgo my right to vote.

The thing is though that our democracy has come off of the rails, veered off of the side of the aqueduct and landed in a stagnant swamp.

The swamp I am referring to of course is the 3 parties:
Conservatives) Self serving upper class twits, out of touch. Couldn't give a flying fuck about you, your family, or anyone outside of their circle.

New Labour) Also self serving upper class twits, even more out of touch. Couldn't give a flying fuck about you either, but better at pretending.

The Liberal Democrats) The ginger haired step child of the top 3. Handed a bone by the Conservatives last election. Would sell their own grandmother to cannibals for half a sniff at a bit of power (they proved this already.)  Couldn't really give a shit about you either, but would happily give you a hug while they pick your pocket.

This choice then, is no fucking choice at all.

I voted Lib Dems last election - because I really thought they couldn't make things any worse than Labour or the Conservatives already had. I thought it was time to give them a chance - a bite at the apple. They then stuck two fingers up at me, and climbed into bed with the blues - it will be a chilly day in hell before I vote for them fuckers again.

Getting back to the choices then, there were these three, and the green party.

The Greens are one of those parties which are all about a principal - that's what they will never win - politics and principals don't mix! I agree with a lot of what they stand for, but I'm a realist. The power never lies with people who try and save the world. The money men would never allow it.

None the less, my vote went that way - where else could it go?

At least they stand for something - a thing that politics is all too lacking these days.

Rant over.

Rant 77 - 17/3/12 Subject: Tax breaks for the super-rich

Rant number 77


We are going to get screwed - good and proper!

I am not a conservative. I disagree with almost everything they stand for and - although I didn't do it in any way deliberately, I kind of voted for them...

You see, I voted for the Liberal Democrats (like many other people.) I'd had enough of Labour fucking it up, I hate the Tories - so my thinking was 'at least let someone else have a chance to screw us over.'

What happened though? The parliament got hung and the idiots within the Lib-Dem's showed their true colours (blue) and sided with the bastards.

Hasn't it worked out well for them!? fucking imbeciles.

The reason I hate the Tories is because of the equality they seem to stand for. Old Money, Public school, toffishness and insular policies are high on their list of fundamental principles.

Since they came into power then, they've been doing their very best to protect the old rich, bankers bonuses and increase taxes for the normal folk. Business as usual then.

Which brings me to my point. The proposal that the chancellor may be removing the 50p tax bracket.

To be on this tax bracket, you will need to be earning in excess of £150,000 - meaning that you will be taking home in your bank account £75,000 pounds a year. Just in case any of you were wondering, this is a lot more than I currently earn in 4 years.

Yeah, because those are the people who are struggling!

They're not favoring the rich by proposing this though. Not at all

In this same budget, they are talking about increasing the fuel duty by another 3 pence and, no doubt fucking us normal folk over in any way possible. Remember that this is also the same government who are pushing up the retirement age & robbing from the public sector pension pot. 

Its not fair, and its not acceptable.

Maybe its time that we all did something about it. Not the unions, not just the public centre - but all of us.

And properly. 

Let me make myself clear! - I'm not talking about childish rioting and thieving, like the scum-bags last summer - all that does is increase the class divide. 

No, what I'm talking about is a serious campaign of statements. 

How about all of us, the Internet generation inform them by sensibly written letter that we do not approve. There are a lot of us, we are generally sensible, articulate and have learnt that words have power in the right hands.

OUR HANDS.

Share this rant and ask people to read it if you agree with what I say. Maybe it really is time for action.

Rant over.