Coalition cuts and reforms take effect commencing today.
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A new world heaves into view this week with sweeping changes in the fields of welfare, justice, health and tax.
Monday
1 April
Bedroom tax introduced
Council tax benefit passes into local control
NHS commissioning changes for ever
Regulation
of financial industry changes
Monday
8 April
Benefit uprating begins
Monday 15 April
Welfare benefit cap
28
April
Universal credit introduced
The
latest list of measures which vividly expose the determination of
this government to drive people into submission and acceptance of
“one way austerity”. The objectives of these latest controls are
twofold. Firstly, to provide that the divisions within society
between sections of the ordinary people of this country are
perpetuated and if possible widened, to ensure that there is no
likelihood of any coordinated resistance to the government. Secondly,
to create the illusion that this Tory dominated coalition is managing
a situation, not of their own making (as they are swift to point out
at every opportunity) and are seeking to be “fair” to all sectors
of society.
Wake
up Britain. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Tory reality
is now what it has always been. In order to achieve its long term
vision, it is necessary to ensure that people remain divided amongst
themselves and are more worried about “benefit scroungers”,
terrorists and immigrants than recognising the real enemy. In the
background of course, the Tories and their business supporters, and
the propaganda media machine supporting them, are beavering away,
building their Laissez-faire,
(as
modified by neoconservative philosophy), utopian society where
capitalism is king, where greed is good and where the already rich
and powerful become even more rich and powerful at the expense of the
rest of society.
At
one time the Labour party and the wider labour movement, would have
resisted this Tory attack on people, and would have recognised the
assault for what it is. However, the representative
organisations
on the left are now a mere shadow of what they once were. Witness the
recent duplicity
of the Parliamentary Labour party on the so called “Poundland”
workfare vote in the House of commons.
Wake
up Britain. There are numerous MP's on both sided of the House of
Commons who
are more concerned with their own pockets and position than with
their principles. As all political parties have essentially
congregated in the “centre ground” of politics, there is little
to choose between them, except perhaps on the margins of the
arguments, and in the privacy of the polling booth, voters could be
excused for spoiling their papers.
These
are not the first examples
of oppressive legislation introduced since 2010
nor will they be the last. This latest tranche just happens to come
into effect on the same day. With the legislation passed so far which
includes effectively dismantling the NHS, privatising vast sections
of publicly owned assets, this country is fast becoming a two tier
nation with rapidly widening divisions between those who have and
those who have
not.
We can only speculate on what further steps this government will take
in order to impose its own interpretation of how British society
should be structured. There can be little doubt that Clegg, Cameron,
Duncan-Smith, Schapps and the rest are already drafting yet more
odious
measures to be inflicted upon this country.
For
as long as sectors of our people continue to dispute between them,
unemployed and unemployed, benefit claimants and non claimants, sick
and able bodied, so will this government enjoy the freedom to impose
its insidious plan to reshape British society in its own fashion.
Where
there is no collective resistance, the unacceptable face of greed and self interest shall prevail.
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