Month: January 2019

I do not care if you like Corbyn or not, if you voted stay or leave, if you have a quid or a million, if you are a biker or chav.

We cannot live any longer under this Government. The Tories – Conservatives are the biggest threat to freedom, to rights, to your wealth, your home, your family and yes your life.

Dont look at others and think that you are immune to poverty, illness, homelessness, disability, or hate. You are not. You may feel comfortable now but when it goes arse up for you its going to be too late to moan.

If there is an election and you do not vote Labour because the media tells you not to then you deserve all you will get.

The EU is not the biggest issue today, the threat of mobilising the army against us by our prime minister is!

Wake up please if you are not already angry!

Jonesy
http://www.thejonesy.com

Every single person I know on disability are on it for genuine reason.

Everyone of them deal with challenges daily that others would not cope with.

Everyone of them is living under constant fear and threat of SANCTION by corrupt legislation and cruel practices implemented by the DWP, Job Centre Plus and private companies such as ATOS (now called Independent Assessment Service) and Capita – both who profiteer on lies, dishonesty, fraud and doctored reports.

The people who work for these departments and companies are morally akin to concentration camp guards, they are paid to cause as much fear and misery as possible. There is no excuse for it.

Folk with disabilities are dying each day through their practices, some through the stress effecting their conditions, some through services being withdrawn and so many including folk I know through suicide due to either the loss of benefits or the pressure and (yes using the word again) fear installed by these vile organisations. I myself am all too often so close to that path.

Being disabled or ill is not a crime. People to not choose to live upon benefits, before I became ill I had a career where I had self worth, and pride, I loved my job, it was how I identified myself and in many ways an accomplishment so many believed impossible for me.

I helped people and changed lives, I was not great with money but had a good wage and so that was not an issue.

I worked all over the UK often commuting a 150 miles or more on top of my working day.
My role was everything to me.

Then illness struck. Multiple chronic conditions, some I had lived and coped with for years but then new ones too, it overwhelmed and stole my ability to work.
I lost people I saw as friends, a relationship, a home, and more than anything else myself.

I was still a parent but could not expect my kids to respect me. Even now I hide so many effects of my illnesses from them.
These thoughts are not rational in some ways, i would never judge anyone else due to their disability, but we are far harder upon ourselves.

Even now it feels impossible for me to have any respect or understanding of myself, yet would happily and truthfully inform someone else in the same circumstances that they have worth.

I write about my experiences because I can do so with authority, without fiction or supposition. Not for pity or self indulgence.
I want folk to understand how illness strips us, then society shuns us, and the state tries to destroy us.

Why do we feel unworthy of life? Because we are taught exactly that. We are treated as fraudsters, made to feel like we are not allowed to live, that on our good days – days where we are not pain free but can pretend to be – we enjoy life. Where if we are ill we cannot go out, we cannot undertake any hobbies, sports, pastimes for fear of being called fakers.

People diagnose us not with medical expertise or knowledge, but by gossip, hearsay and their preconceived ideas of what disability should look like.

My illness means I cannot plan ahead, do not know how I will physically, emotionally or mentally until the day. I have to cancel meeting friends and attending appointments with little or no notice. Can wake feeling ok but then spiral without warning. Because of this I have been struck off from my dentist, mid treatment and now will lose teeth. I have been taken off treatment lists at hospital and even though am on consultant led medication have no consultant monitoring me. I have lost friendships because folk cannot see me ok one day and then understand how I can be so ill the next.

I even have no relationship with close family members anymore because they cannot understand or come to terms with the nature of my conditions.

Being disabled with any condition is hard beyond words. There are fare braver folk out there than me dealing with far worse. I still do have days where I can pretend, and live a little rather than just exist. Dreaming is more the case than planning now
Being ill is frustrating, depressing, it causes anger, self loathing, depression and anxiety. But add the cruel way the state and society treats those with disability and it becomes a true living hell. Paranoia sweeps into the mix because not only does the cruel state judge us, but many of you do too.

You happily snigger and pass judgement, entertain yourselves with Jeremy Kyle, Benefits Britain, Beat the Bailiffs and all that trash TV that is designed to dehumanise the vulnerable, but then make yourselves feel righteous by giving some homeless person the fries out of your Maccie D’s that you were gonna chuck anyway.

I hope when I say ‘you’ I am being general and that you reading this do not fall into that loathsome category.

I truly hope some of the ‘You’s’ reading this will open your eyes and see people with disabilities and chronic illness as humans, as equals and as people to stand by and not pity or loath.

I hope you open your eyes to the evil that is the current regime.
And I truly hope ‘You’ personally never have to experience the lives so many of us currently lead.

Jonesy

We see the horrors endured across the world and become hardened to them. When we talk of millions or even thousands dead our minds shut off to the horror.

We have all listened to the news of some huge disaster, watched the pictures of it, but have only cried when it has focused upon a single child or even pet dog.
Everyone knows the name Anne Frank but can you name all the other children, jewish, black, disabled, homeless, orphaned that were hunted and killed by the Nazis? I cannot. Can you relate to the thousands on families the wedding rings mark the destruction of? Not me.
We talk about the Holocaust in Germany, but other countries were also complicit in this one Holocaust, our own country has been responsible for similar horrors. We were responsible for millions of deaths over hundreds of years in India, Africa, America, Australia, Asia, China, infact in two thirds of our world.
We now are letting the horror grab hold across our world once again. The rise of fascism, of hate of the xenophobic right wing political movements is leading to more death and cruelty.
Even now we are allowing our own government, our rulers to be complicit it the deaths of thousands due to the greed of our establishment. No longer is imperialism the driving force, it is simple greed. And why do they get away with it? Because they are expert at distraction, at lies and at turning blame onto the vulnerable.
So yes let us remember the Holocaust of then, of before and of now, and work to stop future ones. Actions not just ideals!
Jonesy

It is not a case of government making councils prioritise services due to shortfalls, its due to the MP’s spouses, families and friends profiteering from our money.

AUSTERITY is a lie, it was initially imposed to prop up the Establishments losses on shares from their gambling with our money. We then paid them to enable them to straight away regain their huge bonuses, then ever since it has been used to hide the effects of wholesale asset stripping by these same shareholders to profiteer from our public owned services, property and yes health service.
All this is at the expense of the poor, the needy, the vulnerable but also anyone that considers themselves middle or working class.
We have kids going without meals, or text books, no social workers to protect children or vulnerable adults, no housing, no support, no advice services, no legal aid, no policing, limited ambulance services, no libraries, the list is endless.
This is not about lack of money available, it is about profit and greed.
This is the truth as I see it, feel free to prove otherwise.
Jonesy Jones

Ok the Tories are the political wing of the Establishment. The press their propaganda. The far right their puppets.

The Establishment are our enemy. Our one true enemy. Not Muslims, not benefit claimants, not the sick or disabled, not transgender, not Jewish folk, not Black or White people, not the Russians nor Chinese.
Yemen, Iraq, Iran Syria or Afghanistan are not about to attack or invade us.
The only god the Establishment truly worship is materialistic greed. We mean nothing to them. They have no compassion for you, no love for the people or even their nations. Patriotism is there way of keeping us as their drones, a tool to divert us away from their corruption, cruelty and murder.
The legal system does not seek to protect us, it is designed to keep us in our place and ensure the Establishment retain power.
Every successful revolution has involved ridding the judiciary. Sometimes in extremely harsh ways.
The EU sadly is currently just another string to the Establishment bow and itself needs changing.
Sadly every time we try to legally and democratically effect change we are thwarted through corruptive and often illegal ways without any consequence to the law breakers.
Currently our Conservative government are threatening to suppress any civil disobedience or civil uprising by using the army against our own citizens. Any government using these tactics cannot truly be a part of a democratic system. You need to start asking just why they are making these threats.
Now we have had marches and demos. Tens and even hundreds of thousands of the people on the streets demonstrating their frustration and ire at the corrupt actions and policy of this government and their greed worshipping masters. Sadly those actions of the masses are either not reported or misreported. They are then ignored.
We all likely have signed petitions on and off line without any recognition or change being facilitated.
We have voted in elections where ballots have been lost or miscounted. Usually by companies owned by members of the Conservative Party. Other votes where those able to vote are bribed by huge sums of money as in the DUP or by peerages, holidays or jobs as directors within the private sector.
This is not democracy. This is proof democracy has now completely failed.
The countless crimes committed by members of this government are ignored by the police and the CPS, the judges are a part of the problem, as the anti fracking demonstrators being imprisoned by a judge with self interests in the case clearly proves. Eventually their conviction was re-looked at but no action taken against the fraudulant actions of the judge involved.
I could write a book of the likely crimes being committed daily by the government, the establishment and all of their underlings. We are expected to trust the police to protect us, and to support them in their plight of under resourcing and under funding, yet they do not protect us, they do not investigate crimes against us, they only seem to be interested in protecting the assets of their Establishment masters.
Again we need to remember Democracy in the UK has failed. When democracy fails dictators rise from its ashes. In our world there are a few vying for that honor.
So if democracy truly has failed what next? Well we can wait and hope for them to allow Labour in its current socialist led nation to grasp power, by hoping that any election is likely to be run fairly or we can learn from recent past and see it will not be fair and will never be democratic. At the very least expect boundary changes, votes discounted or removed from swathes of society and likely ignored or altered by those paid to count them.
The United Nations has twice condemned this Government for cruelty and breaches to human rights, the response of Cabinet members was to laugh and accuse the UN of fabrication.
So what can we do?
Well my personal view is not wait any longer. We need to take the initiative. We need to take this country for the many not the few. To ensure an end to their corruptive cruel, wicked, greedy and vile regime. To make all of them accountable, from the MP’s and billionaires in control, their press puppets, to their evil bureaucrats in the various departments responsible for cruelty and state imposed murder such as the DWP, Job Centres and the like (Just following orders is no defense).
This accountability needs to happen now. State killing off of the vulnerable must not and will not continue any longer.
If you are employed in these roles and are reading this then open your eyes and leave now. Use your knowledge to blow the lid upon the cruel and corrupt policy and hose who continue to implement it.
We need an end to this government now. We need to stop their greedy corrupt practice.
I am not in anyway advocating violence or physical harm to anyone, I am fighting to end that. I do think blocking their avenues to profiteering however is something to consider.
Again not advocating breaking moral or ethical law, but this needs to end. We have an entire nation of brains and resources. Let’s start using them. We can out think and out fight those that believe they are better than us, that think they have a right to rule us. Let’s show them how wrong they are.
Jonesy

Now I am only a human being. No more or less important than any other, no more or less intelligent than you or anyone you know.

I am not able to tell you what to do nor would I want to. I would hope if you are my friend that you have morality, respect, loyalty, empathy and caring as your core values.
I am a socialist and a republican purely because I cannot stand by and let greed, corruption, cruelty and hate be the ethics my children learn to live with and accept.
I wish no harm on anyone but though would like to see myself as a pacifist I carry too much anger and frustration. I would fight to my last breath to make a better world for my kids and yours.
At the moment all i can do is continue to support and vote for Labour whilst they are an option. If we get to a point where they no longer either stand upon the honest principles we as a party currently hold or become a non viable option due to the further breakdown in what we consider democracy then maybe the day of my martial fight will truly come.
So as I say cannot tell you what to do, but only explain my thoughts and intentions.
I will not stand by and watch my fellow humans kill themselves, get murdered or subjected to cruelty and torture by a state that is supposed to act in our names, not for their own self interest, power and greed.
Your friend
Jonesy
Dog of Socialism

I need to break away from life at this moment.

Tonight almost flooded bathroom as forgot taps on, almost poured milk in bin rather than tea, put hot water in cordial twice, pain all day. Bed day mostly.

On tues Atos. That is making me quite suicidal to be honest.
Then a speeding ticket, loss of faith in humanity, both nationally and personally.

I have managed to survive with little money, because done very little, however I kinda feel out of control of life.
Yep probably being seen as moaning by a few. If you don’t like it bog off then. I actually don’t care much if pissing folk off right now. Not even that sure why still on here.
I know mostly little things but the atos crap is stopping me seeing any future. The other shit is now building up. Not sure where the last straw is but currently it seems so very close.
Looking around my home and I no longer see possessions, memories or cherished things, just hurdles and hinderence.

I am no longer able to relax, to feel belonging, just pain, upset and ire. A grey wall building. Cannot sleep at night but shattered all day. No clear thoughts. Can’t really do conversation without getting confused, frustrated and irritable. Continuously feeling like screaming louder and louder til lungs burst but no energy to even whimper.

Resisting urges to …… Well resisting.

This is my world as I type. Will tomorrow be a new day, another day, a last day? Truly I have no idea.

No written for pity, nor for attention just clarity.

No hugs please, no concern, just please realise how bad our country truly is right now. How cruel the state are being. And again I am not the worst off, many of them already have gone.

Jonesy

Something to ponder…….

We live on an island. We were born or moved here. We do not own even a percentage of it unless we are farmers, corporations or the rich. (Usually they are the same).
We have no freedom, cctv covers more of the UK than not, yet it rarely catches criminal behaviour against us, why? Doesn’t really make sense.
Everything we write or even say likely is monitored in some way. We use certain key words and it sets wheels in motion, not only online but possibly through our phones and even smart tv’s.
We are taught to blame those different to ourselves, to become bullies towards the vulnerable, to hate through colour, religion, ability, sexuality or even the way we dress.
We are lied to constantly, despite being brought up to value a truth we never receive.
We are told we live in democracy but wouldn’t that mean we were given the information we need to make a truly ‘informed decision’ rather than being fed loaded propaganda full of untruth and distraction. Does a political party owned company counting our votes provide democracy? Is it democratic to ensure the poorest in society cannot vote?
When we as a populace become disgruntled we are threatened by our own government, if we are disabled we are reported by those employed to protect us then sanctioned by a department that should ensure our financial safety.
We have a system that attempts to cull the vulnerable and sick by removing their ability to feed themselves and dependents, to heat their homes and often retain a roof over their heads.
We have lawmakers that introduce laws for them to profiteer from but remove legislation our forebears fought and died to put in place to ensure our freedom and rights to life.
We live in a small group of nations that form the UK with historical borders only now printed upon maps, with their own customs and practice being eroded. These countries that make up the UK are governed and controlled by the same people despite what the residents believe.
Most of those politicians across all parties seem to be bribed, bought out and rewarded by those with the money and power to do so. They seem to accept holidays, cars, property and other gifts not only from the rich within our borders but wealthy individuals and governments abroad.
When they are caught out suddenly there will be a chemical attack in the home counties, a terrorist bomb in a city, a drone attack upon an airport, a bus ramming in a town or an invasion of one of our ‘protectorates’. Something for us to fucus our anger on, to ensure we forget their wrongdoing.
We have a society of mistrust not because we are born to be suspicious of other cultures, beliefs or ways of life but because we are indoctrinated to do so throughout our lives. We are brought up to be gullible, aggressive against each other and only loyal to those with more than ourselves.
We live in our insular world where it is more shocking to call someone a name than to kill off huge swathes of our society with cruel policies or murder millions abroad to profiteer from the weapons we sell to tyrannical regimes, or even use our own forces to attack with.
We have a country that declares organisations terrorists in one breath and allies in the next.
In the UK we have a corrupt, cruel and vile government. We have the most dishonest politicians in the world. What is worse we sadly accept it, we see so many still defending these horrific excuses for leaders. They are allowed by us, our consent to continue their rape of our society. Yet we will still gladly sit in a pub and blame someone else for their actions.
We outnumber these vile creatures, they should be scared of our responses, but they no longer are, they do not even hide their corruption. They know we now are the goldfish of the world, we have our three minute memory and only get angry at those we are told to be angry at.
How will history remember u? A country of lemmings?
Jonesy
Dog of Socialism

Please read all of this.

Well some of you that watched i Daniel Blake for the first time last night may be thinking it cannot be that bad. Let me tell you though reality for many is far worse.
The film concentrates on how they put hurdles for him getting money to live on. It showed his desperation at an uncaring system. It told the truth. However, the film can only go so far.
For those of us with illness or disability, if we win the fight to get benefits, which means almost automatically having to ask for a statutory reconsideration after our initial claim has been refused for no apparent reason beyond what the DWP worker had for breakfast. Then having to put up with either being called in for a medical assessment, at a centre miles away, with no adequate parking, or maybe a home visit if you are lucky usually with someone with no clear qualification, a person who is master at making you feel listened to, and that they have empathy for you, but because of the way they achieve pay and bonuses will not only stab you in the back but blatantly lie on their report.
You are observed from the moment you get out of the car until you get back in the car. If you have anxiety you will be put in a waiting room full of people. If you use a chair or crutches your appointment will be on first floor or above. If no lift you will be told you have to get up stairs. If a lift and you use it you are seen as admitting you are able to get down the stairs in case of fire. Yes this sounds ridiculous but sadly true.
Then after your claim is again rejected because of lies and tricks you have to go to tribunal. By this time many have dropped their claims or killed themselves.
Tribunal is not pleasant with three people judging you. One a magistrate or judge, another a health official and another form social care possibly. (Was in my case).
They ask you demeaning questions and you feel like you are defending your honesty and even your life, which you are.
I was lucky and won the tribunal.
Then it gets worse. For because of Tories imposing cuts, because of tv like twat Kyle and Benefits Britain your friends, family and neighbours believe they have the right to judge you.
Many so called friends distance from you and soon begin to openly call you with their judgements. If you have a good day you either feel too paranoid at being watched to go out and live or are threatened with being reported (often actually reported).
You cannot live beyond day to day not only because of illness but because you are constantly under threat of sanction. All your choices and decisions as to any future path you are able and want to take are stripped from you. You panic that your money will stop at any time with no explanation or warning.
Every knock at the door, every letter causes you not only stress but real fear. Anxiety, a very real and horrible condition On its own creeps in as a secondary condition, more as a result of the fear of the state than the circumstance of your illness.
You fear checking your bank account because by now you have no savings and outgoings are often more than income.
Then you get a form through the post to fill in going over your illnesses. You are scared to death of it. Again suicide becomes a viable option, but with help you fill it in.
You then hear nothing for months but out of the blue receive this text;

This is a message from Independent Assessment Services. We have appointments available in your area over the next 7 days in an assessment centre, please call us on 0800 188 4880 if you are available. Kind Regards, Independent Assessment Services.

You have had no other notification of assessment. Now you feel terror, frustration and yes anger. My response was shaking with a fury I have never felt and wanting to petrol bomb their offices, to stab any assessor in their neck! I am not violent but at that moment, given all they have done I truly believe if had been fit enough I would have done it. Luckily I am not fit and once rationality took over I calmed down.
I am now awaiting assessment (with no intent to harm the assessor). Every day between now and the date I wake up wanting to die. I go to bed wanting to die. I take meds and wish with all my being that I had that choice. Insulin in hand every day!
I feel I cannot leave my home, i cannot invest in my home or even my future. I am tetchy with people, pushing away many that care (partly for fear of their pain if I do take a hand in my own destiny).
I do not sleep properly but then too much. I shake uncontrollably without warning. I either don’t eat or eat too much. I forget so much from appointments to turning the cooker off.
This is my life. Without this current stress my bad days are existing and my life is a limbo, but now it feels far worse, when I can feel.
If i meet with friends I feel unable to join in conversation or babble utter crap.
I know if this assessor lies I have the whole fight all over again. Sadly if that is the case I will not survive. I will not be here.
That is my ‘I Daniel Blake’ and I am one of the lucky ones.

Ok so no reporting on government corruption, no discussion how a service the Tories sold off for a pittance now provides worse service and higher fares whilst its share holders (mainly conservatives I guess) make billions in profits.

Do folk not get that privatisation is a huge con. That selling public services off does not benefit us at all. Does not create competition, but promotes monopolies. Huge mega companies all interwoven with the same folk on their boards of directors.
Who bought shares in BT? How many of you still have them? Not many for most are held by ‘holding companies’ not real companies just profiteering scum.

We are still feeling the murderous and cruel effects of austerity, another huge con by the ‘con’servatives. These profiteering scum gambling our money, lose our money, we pay it back but they then tale the profits they would have had if not lost it all. We then die on the streets and blame the vulnerable for causing austerity.

Fecking wake up folks. We are all humans but the rich and powerful thing they are better earthlings that the rest of us. They see us as cattle to manipulate, torture and yes kill. Our lives are worthless to them yes so many of us perpetuate their control by worshiping their celebrity and praising their power.

This has to stop. This is not how the world should be or needs to be.
Lives are lost every minute of every day through greed, famine brought on by greed, war where greed profits, cruelty for fun and greed. We have probably the most corrupt government in the world and accept it! Even the Italians now laugh at us, and they had Silvio Berlusconi.

We cannot keep turning a blind eye to this. History will remember us as the biggest marks in history, a nation of fools conned out of everything. If you do not directly suffer now, you children and grandchildren definitely will.
Jonesy