I was speaking to a Bulgarian student today after a lecture. He was going on about how the UK is so fair with its free NHS, its fantastic education and free meals for kids. He was so taken aback by the fairness of my country.
I found myself getting uncharacteristically angry. Having been born and raised here, I find that one of the most prominent things about this country is how is keeps its poor poor and its rich rich. The poor who are caught committing benefit fraud are fined, jailed and demonised as scum, while the rich bail out their banks with the taxpayer’s money.
More than half of the House of Commons was ordered to repay a total of £1.1million to the taxpayer that they stole. MPs claimed a record £95.6 million between them in expenses in 2008 and 2009. MPs were charging the taxpayer £151,000 each in some cases, but that was quickly forgotten wasn't it?
Inflation alone has the poorest people losing on average £83 a year, and that increases for the most vulnerable; our pensioners. The banks are still handing out ridiculous bonuses to the rich, despite all the cuts that we have had to deal with because of all the bailouts. All the lying, cheating and stealing that our government does. Even the cost of the goddamn war is hundreds of billions of pounds, and that’s not including the troop’s salaries.
The education of kids in this country has also plummeted, we used to be one of the statistically highest achieving countries in the world, but we've slid considerably down that scale and we will continue to slide. Why? Because it’s easier to control a stupid flock who don’t ask too many questions.
Why has all this been swept under the rug? The brain-dead rubbish that is fettered out by the media and entertainment industry is pumping the people full of inane drivel and it’s a fantastic distraction from the real issues. The talentless, famous-for-being-famous trash that rule the minds of the people thanks to mainstream media is what gets the attention – it never fails to disgust me how little the people around me know of the corruption running ramped in our country.
Some people tell me I complain too much. That I need to ‘chill out’, while they watch their TV shows. They've been working all they, they don’t want to hear me moaning about the government again. They just want to relax and find out whose pregnant and whose getting fat.
I hate this ######6 system.