Who are we? who are you? who am I?

How can we define ourselves? we use nationality, age, gender, religion, culture, employment. education, ability, class, colour, weight, height, language, eye colour, hair colour, we may use our status of being a parent, a son, a daughter, an orphan, a sibling, an aunt, uncle a grandparent, a citizen, we may see ourselves as richer poorer due to material wealth, or maybe its love, friendship and loyalty that are the true riches. The home or lack of it is usually used as a social indicator, as is the car we drive.

Others may use all these examples to define us, but also see us as humble, arrogant, wise, foolish, happy, sad, brave, cowardly, meek or even wild.

Maybe though what truly define sus is far more elusive? Maybe it is more about the experiences we gathered on our voyage to this point in history, possibly the decisions already made or about to be made?

So who am I? well yes I am a white British male, I am a father, I am overweight, I am living with chronic illness, I was a social worker, I am a socialist, I am a biker, I have friends, I am social, I speak only one language fluently (this one), I am a son, a brother. My hair was blonde but now mousey brown with grey, my eyes are still blue. I’m six foot tall and in my very early fifties as I write this.

My future plans changed when I got ill and had to retire from my career. I was earning good money and loved my job, at that time if asked to define myself it would have been at the top of my list. The past few years have been challenging and at best unsettled, at worst, well let us say touch and go.

I lived and worked all over the UK as a social worker, but now spend 80 – 90% of my time in my little disabled bungalow. I do still have occasional good days and do get out upon those, that is when I see myself as living rather than just existing.

So given all the above I am sure some folk would describe me as arrogant, foolish, a snowflake, a wuss, a scrounger, fat, and many other derogatory terms, in fact I know a few that do just that. Others see me differently, thankfully, I see myself somewhere in the middle. I am a human being, not perfect and completely fallible.

There are some people I see as I see myself, some I have a little less respect for but the vast majority I believe have huge potential to be far better than me. You may well be one of them

What I really respect in people is morality, being ethical, challenging discrimination and hate. I do not care what you drive, the clothes you wear, whether you live in a mansion or a tent, Your phone doesn’t impress me, nor does the name on your handbag. The people I am drawn to may have nothing or everything materially, but they will share whatever they do have to alleviate the pain and anguish of others.

You can be whoever you are with me. You can laugh with me, cry upon me, shout or scream at me. If you need me I will try to be there, as I know many of you would be for me.

My class is human.

So whether you are a biker, or rapper, whether you have kids or not, whether you have scars, stretch marks or a few ripples like me, you have the potential to be my friend. You will not be judged ever as harshly as I judge myself, You need no airs and graces, you need only be yourself.

If you want to better yourself, do so by being humane, not for stretching out into the void for lavishes you never will likely receive.

Live life for you, your family and those you love, the only person that has the right to criticise you is you, and then it will likely be too harsh.

 

Jonesy

 

Ok folk saying the Brexit vote was done, the people have spoken! Yep the people did vote and the vote was for Brexit. However, the information or rather misinformation we were provided with by those we were meant to trust was not just flawed but blatant lies. It was all actually supposed to be a simple publicity campaign for Cameron and his flunky government.
No one expected people to vote for leaving the EU, in fact not even those leading the leave campaign, Boris and Farage wanted a vote to leave. They only were leading the campaign for their own self promotion.
So given we were fed lies, more lies and more damn lies realistically we were not in a position to make any informed choice.
We know the laws regarding elections, laws not rules, were broken, yet those truly responsible were not even properly challenged never mind investigated or charged, such is the farce of the British legal system. These liars, cheats and fraudsters truly are above any laws of this country.
So a vote for leave happened, based upon fantasy. Then we have Theresa the Traitor May stepping in when Piggy Cameron ran away to sun himself wrapped in hundreds of thousands of £50 notes from his ‘offshore’ bank accounts.
Now Theresa and her corrupt money obsessed husband decide to make the most of this Brexit situation, not for us, the folk of the country, but for themselves and the shareholders in Mr May’s list of companies.
So first thing she decides to do is end the UK’s compliance with EU legislation on human and workers rights, thus enabling corporations, businesses and companies (such as those owned and controlled by Brian – oops wrong Mr May, business) to slash conditions for those employed and yes housed by them.
Then given her new position she can ally with tyrannical regimes that will buy weapons (guess who supplies these? Yep hubby May).
She is supposed to be negotiating for a tactical retreat of the UK from the EU, however she makes such a hash of it that even the heads of the other EU countries decide to ignore her and tell the British folk that if they want as individuals we can stay EU members.
Now back to this Brexit vote, well yes we voted for Brexit, yes a few folk still believe the lies we were told, a few still think the British, or more likely the English are superior to the rest of Europe, but now the truth has seeped into the heads of many that voted leave they have suddenly realised they were duped (not to be confused with Theresa being DUPed).
Now we vote in new governments every few years in the UK. Sadly of late folks have been fed more lies and propaganda by all the main media in Britain, so the Tories have been able to strip our economy bare, but even given this there is still the prospect a change of government could reverse most of the theft they have committed against us.
The Brexit vote however offers no opportunity to fix the errors their lies have caused. Once we leave it will be final. No going back.
Now some folk still see the forecasts of the crash of the pound, runs on banks, no trade abroad meaning few exports or imports, and economical along with physical isolation as scare mongering, maybe they are, but if not life is about to get very difficult for us.
Already British citizens are dying under the auspices that the fabricated ‘austerity’ brings. (Yet more fraud from these Tory thieves). If the forecasts prove true hundreds of thousands killed by this government will become likely counted with six zero’s. Can we live with thats? Clearly some of us won’t.
So what to do? Do we go blindly into the abyss because the stubborn say ‘the people have voted’ or do we recognise that the vote was firstly not legally binding, and secondly not democratic due to lies, fraud and untruths?
Do we accept such a dangerous path based upon the corrupt self promotion of a few greedy politicians? Or do we recognise that the cost to employment, diversity, rights, and quality of life is too much?
You tell me, but do not tell me ‘the people have voted’ for a vote based purely upon fantasy and lies is not a democratic vote in any reality.

Jonesy

Dog of Socialism

http://www.thejonesy.com

People bandy around this word justice all too often. We assume because we are a ‘free Western Country’ that we have justice. We in the UK have had our legal system for centuries so surely that indicates that we live in a society that values justice.

Our courts are almost as grand as our churches and often much bigger. We have the servants and dealers of justice, lawyers, barristers and judges. We have the world oldest police force to investigate crimes and protect us all? All this surely must mean we live in a just society?

Anyone can apply to the courts can’t they? We live in a democracy do we not? And if so surely that promotes choice and a collective consensus so that is just?

No man or woman is above the law, we know this because from being children we are taught it through school, college, university, and by our parents that believe it. It must be true?

Sadly my view has changed, I through life experience, through working in the courts, through having to apply to the courts, through working closely with the police, having to call upon them, and being upon the end of their tactics of controlling those that dare stand up against injustice, who has campaigned for change using democratic ‘rights’, who has seen those rights, eroded, stolen, ignored and sadly smashed by the police, the courts and yes the government have long since realised we live in a society where justice does not exist.

Now I live my life within the law as much as possible, but often it now seems more existing than living.

Ok here are the issues that I as a simple human being, a citizen living within the United Kingdom of Great Britain, The Commonwealth, and Protectorates see them.

The laws:

We live in a society where though we have no written constitution we have a system where there is more legislation governing and restricting us than that of any other country upon this planet. The laws we live by are split into various categories such as, statute law, case law, civil, criminal, contract, by-law, orders, the list goes on. No one lawyer, judge or law maker can pretend to know or even understand all the legislation we live under.

Some laws make sense, some really don’t. We have laws dating back to the Magna-Carta in the days of King John, his Barons and his child bride, and we have legislation likely only ratified yesterday.

Not all laws are relevant to today’s society but unless they are removed from statute they can possibly still be used.

It is for these reasons we have specialists in law, and the phrase ‘anyone representing themselves has a fool for a client’ holds true.

Now up until fairly recently we here in…….well you know where, had access to these lawyers through a system of legal aid. This meant for the most part the less wealthy in society could be represented in court by a specialist lawyer. That they could bring cases or defend themselves against those seeking to cause them harm, damage or loss. It meant that often an individual could for many reasons access some protection from injustice.

Now however under the guise of ‘Austerity’ we have very limited legal aid left, we cannot access it for most cases of litigation and it is only there for defence in criminal and some cases of public law.

This means the majority have no legal access to support in cases of debt, defamation, assault, hate crime, failings of statutory bodies, councils or government.

People lose homes, families, belongings and lives through this.

We also are living in the only nation where you can be convicted without trial. Fixed penalty notices and cautions are seen as admissions of guilt and recorded as such.

We have police forces which we know all to well are underfunded but also have stagnated. The best of officers often pushed out in favour of to be frank, lazy, violent bullies. This becomes more apparent daily as people readily now video incidents and we get to see how these uniformed thugs act.

The police it now has been disclosed failed to investigate a million crimes. I personally have been thrice a victim of assault due to disability and received no support and can state have been treated with contempt by Derbyshire police upon each occasion. We are told to report crime, yet in doing so just subject ourselves to ridicule, scorn and apathy.

So given my experiences and the experiences of others with the police and courts I to be brutally honest now have no trust in justice in the legal sense. I have seen the ongoing rise in fascism, hate, cruelty and corruption, so have no faith that there is such a thing as social justice either. The fact that the Government is still in the hands of a party that has lied to, thieved off, killed, disowned, disenfranchised & deported so many of our own folk, have murdered people here and abroad in the name of greed, corruption and power, have aligned with and supported tyrannical and yes inhuman regimes, that have been investigated and criticised twice by the United Nations for inhuman treatment of the most vulnerable in our society, means to me that we have no democracy therefore no democratic justice.

Now you will form your own opinions. Those that cannot let go of the lifetime of propaganda they have been fed will never agree with me. Hopefully some folk with their eyes open will.

What we can do to change this? Well this is an answer I do not have, people will I am sure just comment ‘vote Jeremy in’ or JC4PM, which I do believe would facilitate change, but sadly my belief in any semblance of democracy has waned and I am becoming more certain the Establishment will never let this happen.

Is revolution the answer? Maybe one day, but will it be ever possible? With current opinions, apathy and splits, with division and the I am alright Jack view held by many, I do not think it will be soon. Each day that passes under this unjust system more of us, our friends, family and neighbours will suffer and yes die.

We we see justice before its too late? I hope with all my heart and soul  we do so.

Jonesy

Dog of Socialism

http://www.thejonesy.com

I was born a male, not a choice, I try to be a good humane human. That is a choice. I live my life the best I can. I know her post was not directed at me as an individual but included me, and that is what offended, that and her friends comment about all ‘free men’ being abusers and rapists. If you believe such shite, firstly I am truly sorry that something or someone has hurt you that severely, but remind you it was not me, was not the majority of men, that we do not all abuse others, we do not all rape or oppress or control others. Most of us live our lives in the best way possible for us. We are all products of our past, of experience, upbringing, and most of us recognise good from bad most of the time.
I have feelings, I laugh and yes cry. I feel happy and sad. Loved and alone. Popular and isolated. Confident and afraid. I am human. A person. A son. A brother. A dad. A friend. A teacher. A student.
I am fallible, stupid, foolish yet can do right, can make right choices and can show wisdom. I am human.
I am no better than you, and likely no worse.
I make mistakes often, but thats my persona, not my gender.
I am like you formed by society and it imprisons us. It tells us what it expects and like you it attempts to force me to comply. I often don’t. I often rebel. I am human.
I choose to be called Jonesy for that defines and describes me in ways Simon does not.
I am weak, yet also strong. I bleed as do we all in our own ways. I am human.
I will not apologise for things outside of my control, for things I could not choose. I will apologise when I err, for err I will. I am human.
I am me, I am right, I am wrong, I am rich in the best ways as a dad, a relation, a friend, I am poor in the materialistic sense but thats ok. I am Jonesy. I am here. I am human.

Jonesy

“I think people will feel a difference because they will know that for the first time in decades it is the UK government that is deciding who can come into the country,”
Theresa May in interview with BBC. The curtains hiding the truth dropping daily.
So Brexit is not about immigration and pandering to the far right then Theresa?
With this statement, along with her attempts to remove the Human Rights Act, Windrush, Grenfell and her governments continued attacks upon the disabled, poor and displaced within our society, who can fail to see the same path being trod as was cut into the annals of history by Adolf Hitler’s National Socialists, Mussolini’s Fascists and all the Axis nations of WW2. Remember she quoted ‘Mein Kampf’ with her ‘strong and stable’ catchphrase.
And yet I am certain this hypocrite will lay a reef at the cenotaph to remember those that died fighting such horrors as she not only advocates but promotes and enacts.
We truly need to stop these vile cruel criminals against humanity. It might sound like I am being dramatic but I am certain I am not.
People might not be being imprisoned for speaking out yet, but soon we likely will be. No legal aid means we have no legal defence.
She has it seems got the Parachute Regiment training to quell civil uprising. Her government own the BBC.
People need to wake up to it now.
We need to put a stop to this wicked, corrupt government and their establishment backers.
Think on it.

Jonesy Jones
Dog of Socialism

So its pointing towards more cuts to local government services in the name of the con which is ‘austerity’. Let’s think about this. What is local government, as a pose to government? Well local services such as bins, roads, lollipop people, education, teachers, dinner supervisors, police, fire brigades, planning, housing, adult and yes children’s social services come under the financial banner of ‘local government’.
Now saying that, central government, Theresa the Traitor and Co, they are supposed to supplement the money we pay to local government through council tax from the money raised by all the other taxes we pay to them. From car tax, income tax to VAT and capital gains tax.
The councils used to control the way money was spread out through the services but now they also have to pay private companies due to government forcing them to privatise bins, road services, housing, and many other services. That means however much money the council budget is cut by they still have to finance them, including bus companies that run tendered services, those routes that they say they cannot profit by.
This means the services we need that are not privatised such as social care and most of education (not academies) have their monies cut.
Now some of you know, before illness hit me I was a social worker and manager in child protection, and i worked all over England and Wales. I cannot work anymore in the field but keep up to date with colleagues, legislation changes and issues.
When I managed teams you were expected to have several years experience on the front line. Newly qualified workers were given protected case loads until they had more experience and were not allowed to undertake Section 47 (child protection) enquiries until they had gained the experience and skills.
Due to cuts however experienced workers were given higher and more challenging caseloads, they deal with the most horrific issues in society and if front line often walk into situations alone which the ‘brave police’ would need assign several officers armed and armoured, to attend the same address. They see the most heart wrenching cases, experience emotions you cannot help but take home with you. This is not anywhere near as bad as the horrors experienced by the victims of abuse, but it is all day every day of their working life. Their job is to protect the most vulnerable in our society, and yes sometimes they fail, sometimes they make mistakes, sometimes they to be frank are naff at their jobs but generally they are not, generally they go the extra mile. The role of child protection social worker is not 9-5 and rarely allows for a social life.
Sadly the experienced of us often end up like me becoming too ill to work, or becoming so fed up and stressed they don’t want to work in the field anymore. This has led to newly qualified workers, straight from uni, after only a few months being promoted to senior practitioners and then managers. This is ridiculously dangerous. They end up with huge unmanageable case loads, no resources and no support. They are constantly under threat of having their registration publicly removed or worse.
The get limited of often no supervision and due to the cuts can no longer rely on support from other agencies including the police.
This then becomes a horrific situation for children and families that are living with abuse, kids at significant risk of harm through neglect, physical abuse. Sexual abuse or as with all abuse emotional harm.
Families being split apart instead of supported, children being taken into a care system not fit for purpose. Parents and children living in abject poverty due to austerity and the effects of universal credit and zero hour contracts.
The NSPCC adverts are not even close to what these folk go through.
This is only an example of the true effects of the lie that is austerity, us the people of the UK bailing out bankers after they gambled with our money. They were back on full bonuses within weeks but ten years down the line we the poor are still paying whilst they and the Tories profiteer.
That is Austerity.
This needs to stop now! We need to stop it. Time to rid the Tories, end establishment control and take our country and our lives back.

Jonesy
Dog of Socialism

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National pride in the UK today or indeed the past is ridiculous. We are a laughing stock throughout the world. The British establishment has forever treated all it sees as lesser, the poor, sick, other cultures, races and nations with arrogant contempt. They still see themselves as the leaders of a modern Rome, as demi gods to the rest of the populace.
The Britain of the films and your 70’s/80’s/90’s school history lessons never existed. The British people do have a strength of character when needed. Most people are polite and care about their friends and families. The majority still would help any stranger in a crisis. But we are not a kind nation. We are and for thousands of years, way beyond any humans lifespan, so always have been made up of different races, cultures and beliefs. Britain was never really the ‘white, Christian bastion’ we were led to believe in school or the media, and boy am I glad we weren’t.
Sadly in the late 40’s and fifties the Establishment began to house the workers from the West Indies in Ghetto’s. Place them in the more run down parts of our industrial cities. These were men and their families that Enoch Powell and his cronies transported to Britain to fill the workforce gaps caused by the killing of so many men in world war 2.
Now remember up until this mass immigration women were working alongside men in industry, in business and were gaining recognition and rights at what for the Establishment (male dominated) was an alarming rate. This was not acceptable to Enoch and his masters. So instead they brought over migrant workers from our Empire (remember we ruled the Empire with sword and gun as ‘Saviours to the Savages’ and ‘Civilising the uncivilised’ – the common believe and supposed morality of the day), these workers were brought over with the promise of great wealth, housing and equality. That never happened. These human beings were treated as slaves, yes they were paid, but a fraction of the pay a white worker would receive for the same role. They were paid less than the women, who they replaced, and who were already being paid far less than the men, and as for equality? They were treated with contempt by those they worked for and sadly even those they worked with.
Now remember even prior to this Britain was a multicultural society but was no stranger to ghettos. When industry meant farm workers moved into factories from the countryside to work in mills they were placed in getto’s. The Jewish populace were living in what were seen as ghetto’s. The poor always have been placed together out of sight of the wealthy.
So then technical advances in manufacturing meant we did not need as many workers, the queen inherited the throne and after the publicising of images of concentration and death camps (a British idea used prior to WWII throughout the Empire but especially in the Crimea) it was decided that the idea of Empire being ruled by threats and violence was no longer one that would be tolerated. Ghandi was the popular freedom fighter and his non violent protests were something the British Establishment had no understanding of and could not counter. This was the real reason Queen Liz announced an end to the Empire and a new age of ‘Commonwealth’, a sort of EU but made up of states and countries we had conquered. And Liz got to remain head of state of those countries too for the most part.
Then in the 1970’s the Establishment (those with the real power and money, including Queen Liz and her hangers on) realise that firstly the West Indian and African workers are not only earning real wages because their ‘bosses’ value them but are now doing jobs they thought only the ‘white workers’ capable of. This scared Enoch, for he truly believed the white man was at the top, and that he and his class were at the top of them. So what he then did, the man that encouraged and cajoled the mass migration, was spout the hate filled rivers of blood speech. He realised he couldn’t force these folk with their kids now being born, raised and educated to go back to whence they came, he knew many had formed friendships with his ‘white countrymen’ so he now sought to demonise them. Cause rifts and hoped this would bring about them leaving Britain. It did not work. It did inflame bigotry and feed racism, but these men although were living in ghettos were working alongside the white workers, they were members of the unions, they had support. They were not forced out. The ghetto’s do still exist within inner cities but that has been slowly changing. We who fight against hate have been making a difference to attitudes. Youth culture has embraced black music and fashion from jazz, to reggae and now rap and hip hop, people do not generally fear folk due to the colour of their skin (yes sadly still many do). Now still in the late 60’s & 70’s the Establishment realised that closer ties with Europe meant more opportunity to make money for them. So the ‘common market’ was born. This was only ever really to boost Britain’s dwindling trade and open borders for import and export, from its inception it was a capitalist venture. What is Capitalism, its is purely profiteering from those poorer than yourselves. Making the rich richer. Capitalism is finite, it can only exist so long, until the rich own everything. It is monopoly on a world scale, where the bankers always cheat (and don’t we know that). Then comes the 80’s, Thatcher an nasty product of capitalism, who married into the Establishment, realised by breaking the unions she could then remove the rights of the migrant workers even further but also profiteer from removing the rights of all workers. The miners strike and other industrial disputes were forced by the Establishment deliberately sparking them off. The police and yes if you consider Orgreve were drafted in to quell demonstrations by brutality and force. This response had not been used since the days of Peterloo. The media already was controlled by the wealthy, and rags like the Sun fully bought in to her wickedness. When people seemed to begin to see through her tactics and communities started standing together sher distracted a nation by a fabricated war thousands of miles away. A war she could have prevented months earlier but instead cost human lives.
This is not conspiracy theory, it is sadly very much the truth, though often hidden by jingoism.
Thatchers policies destroyed not only unions but communities and families.
Out of sight though the EU was being born. The Establishment still believed it to be just a common market, but some very clever humane folk had been elected in from all the countries involved. These new politicians were almost ignored by the Establishment world wide. They were out of sight bringing in a new alliance. One with power to legislate for all the countries involved. Through this we ended up with the Working Time Directive, Workers rights, Driving hours, open borders, and yes human rights too. There was daft legislation such as straight cucumbers and shape of bananas but most was in place to protect us.
Then the unthinkable happened. The wall between Eastern Communist Europe and the west was torn down. Suddenly poorer nations were joining the EU. Their workers were now free to travel to Britain to work. This again made the Establishment happy because they could profiteer from an even cheaper workforce with no family ties to the UK. Someone else to exploit. But soon this backfired, because these workers were used to working together. They believed in family and community. They were paid less but worked longer. They only bought essentials here and sent money back to their home countries. The establishment could not deal with this. So now through a campaign of lies, propaganda, threats and deceit we are leaving the EU. The Tory’s (Political arm of the Establishment) first act was to announce an end to the Human Rights Act and then comes the Windrush scandal. Sending those families that came and settled in the UK back to the countries their forebears came from. Children born and raised in the UK as British citizens being forced to migrate to a country they have never known and have no ties to. If this was happening to you how would you feel?
So what diversions have the Tories used to distract us? Terrorism? Demonising Islam? They use terrorism as a weapon, inciting fear. Guess who arms these so called terrorists? The British Establishment.
There is far more to all of this, too much to write here without boring you all to death, but it is a truth, the truth as I understand it from years of working within different communities within the UK, of standing by my belief and morality, years of demonstrating, of being on the picket lines, of being a socialist.
So take away what you want from my words, but please think on it, decide upon your own truth and then act upon it.
We cannot afford to be bystanders anymore. Our children’s future depends on our actions now.
Jonesy Jones
Dog of Socialism

I won’t publish a photo of the effects of our selling weapons to Saudi or supporting Israel upon men, women, children and families.

Is the pic of planes more acceptable than the bodies of babies with their lungs ripped apart by bombs designed to set your organs on fire? Or 6yr olds with stumps for limbs? 10yr olds bled out from head injuries, 12 year olds weighing less than a two yr old in the UK due to malnutrition and starvation, with disease and poisoning thrown in. 16yr olds decapitated, 18yr olds burnt to death by phosphorous. That is reality in Yemen and Palestine tonight, yesterday and tomorrow.
I won’t post a pic of these as may offend your sensibility, so will paint the effects of any war, especially a one sided genocide as Yemen or Palestine with my words as my canvas.

You can close your eyes and see that father mourning the deaths of his wife, children and parents, whilst sitting covered in dust amid the rubble which is all that remains of his family home.

The mother cradling her dead baby as if it were still able to suckle from her wasted dried up and cracked teet, the lack of milk no longer a matter to the no longer living infant.

A family dog tearing at the flesh of its dead owner in desperation and hunger.

I could go on all night but never truly come close to the truly unimaginable horrors the victims of Saudi, of Israel, of the US & of yes us, the people of the UK, who allow our government to collude with those states engaged in genocide, to supply them arms, included weapons we are not supposed to use due to them being internationally outlawed, and to train and support their military, even in other regions invading their lands ourselves in the US alleged ‘war on terror’.

So as you sip you coffee tonight think of those dying in the name of greed, of power, of religion, of discrimination. Picture their faces, and remember we own their fate.

Jonesy

Dog of Socialism

Mirror Politics (not our friends) are sharing a photo of an ex tory councillor who is claiming disability (well according to Mirror Politics) and been snapped carrying a folding table. My response to the comments on their post is thus:

Before you jump out of your chairs with ire on this, yep the fool is a Tory but you are not his doctor. I am not either. I do not know his medical history! I do know I have several chronic illness’ that mean most of the time I am in pain, am exhausted, cannot get out of house and yes would have difficulty washing hair. I then get a few (very few days) of respite where even I can to a degree almost forget I am ill. Still have pain but with effort can function as if not. On those days I do what I can to ‘live’ and yes shop (carry shopping in), sort my home out and if I can help others. I do not know this blokes situation, but to have a go without doing is beyond daft. Yep he is an arse for being a tory, but stop being judgemental for him being ill unless you truly know all the facts. And yes it is the tories that made being ill tantamount to being a criminal, but maybe this one has learnt a lesson in politics. Easy to criticise and jump on bandwagon but maybe think first?

The thing is I don’t care who the bloke is, demonising and judging someone without living in their shoes is at best unhelpful but in reality oppressive and not just perpetuating but encouraging the vilification of the most vulnerable in society.
The Tory establishment themselves are accomplished masters at this. The feed the public constant propaganda to do just that, with ‘Benefits Britain’ and that vile muppet Kyle!
People are ill and cannot work for many reasons. Chronic illness is often hidden, for me I have occasional better spells that mean folks see me as functioning, but then like of late being housebound and yes bed bound, unable to even cook or dress properly.
I hate not working, I want to be doing something productive. I did not give up the career I loved to wither away in this existence. I constantly strive to get back to what I do best, but cannot. In fact dare not even try, for if I fail I lose what little I have now. Because that is how the system works, (fails us).
Remember the government allows surveillance of this but not of abusers of children, not of fraudsters ripping us all off for millions in taxes.
The DWP discounts medical evidence every day and to be honest I think the courts are loaded against us. How do you explain to a judge sitting upon his ivory tower how your veins are filled with lava and ice at the same time. That one morning you can manage to stand to have a wee yet another you cannot even sit straight upon your toilet seat?
So please don’t judge someone off a picture. Whoever they are. Disability and illness cannot always be seen. People do genuinely want to do what they can when they can. And remember the main stream press not only collude with those wanting to oppress us all, but have to make mountains out of mole hills just to sell their pathetic words. This was not journalism, it was in my opinion unsubstantiated drivel.
Jonesy.