Posted By: AnnieMac
My Letter Published Today - 18/05/2017 21:08
i had this letter published today in my local paper. I thought you might like to see it...
A General Election is looming and Theresa May is expecting to increase her majority. I would just like to point out a few things that will happen if the Tories win this election.
Homelessness will continue to increase. I don't know about you, but I am appalled at the numbers of homeless people in our towns and cities.
Our state schools will continue to be badly underfunded. The education system is in crisis, and it's entirely due to lack of money. Parents are being asked to set up a monthly direct debit to help schools to survive.
Our young people will continue to struggle to pay off enormous debts from having the audacity to be bright and hard-working and wanting to go to University.
Our beloved NHS which is being deliberately underfunded so that we think it can't ever work, will be replaced with a broken up, sold-off system where private companies profit. In America this has meant lining the pockets of unscrupulous corporations which have free rein to overcharge for vital medication and procedures.
The sick, the disabled, and the dying will continue to be subject to genocide by stealth. The so-called welfare "reforms" have resulted in these already unfortunate people having their lives reduced to a kind of hell on earth. People are committing suicide in droves, and our media is ignoring this scandal so you probably don't even know about it. 50,000 disabled people have lost their mobility cars. How are they supposed to get to work? The United Nations has investigated the Tories' treatment of the disabled and has concluded that their human rights are being violated.
Public services such as children's centres, libraries, old folk's homes, they will all be underfunded or closed altogether. Everything that can be, will be privatised. And we can see from our railway system how efficient privatisation makes things!
Big corporations (hello Vodafone) will continue to be allowed to get away with paying hardly any corporation tax. Ensuring they pay up would raise £BILLIONS more than robbing people on welfare of the pittance they get.
Zero hours contracts, which mean people don't know from one week to the next what their wages will be, will continue to be the employment method of choice for exploitative companies. They result in people having to claim benefits on top of their wages, so the tax payer is indirectly subsidising these employers and helping them to make huge profits at the expense of job security. Wages for everyone have been stagnating and not keeping up with the cost of living. Nurses are having to use food banks!
Child poverty will continue to rise, foodbank use will continue to go through the roof, pensions will remain a pittance. The benefits sanctions system is cruel and inhumane and results in people having literally NOTHING to live on for sometimes months at a time.
Sustainable, clean energy has lost all its subsidies while we pay through the roof for gas and electricity that harms the environment.
Police services and fire services will continue to face cuts. More people are dying now in fires than ever before.
But at least the Tories have a good record regarding the country's finances, right? Wrong! The national debt has gone up not down, in spite of austerity. So we are all suffering for nothing!
I could go on - do you want to bring back fox hunting? Theresa May does.
We are told that Labour want to take us back to the 1970s. Well, the Tories seem to want to go back to the 1870s!
If you believe our media is free and unbiased you probably think Jeremy Corbyn is the devil incarnate but please, before you decide he is not worthy to be Prime Minister, take a look at his speeches on YouTube, and find out what the man actually has to say. You may find that in reality he makes a lot of sense.
Thank you for reading my letter.