There is no equality in being disabled. The moment a disabled person, who is not of independent means, who has to claim entitlements (they are not benefits, we paid National Insurance, they are simple our policy paying out) stands for election, the DWP will ensure all the money they need to live on, to survive will be stopped.
That is not equality, and lays the lie of democracy naked.
#election #disability #Sunak #cruelty #fear
We need independent candidates to win as many constituencies as possible. No whips, no blackmail, no bribes, no public school allegiances.
That truly is the only way we win freedom in the UK. They will find it far harder to discredit 650 individuals as a post to a single party and it’s very corrupt leadership. Note I did not differentiate, all the main parties, including Greens, Liberal Dems and Referendum parties are cut from same cloth. I would far rather a 650 coalition the two party one, or single party tule.
If we want to make a difference we have 5 weeks and far less to nominate each independent.
If we don’t do this now, there will be nothing to save by the next election.
I implore all free thinking moral people that can afford to do so, to stand for or even just assist in funding independent candidates in the General Election.
Forget the offshoot splintered parties with differing views, completely discount the three main parties, all of which already in my view are proven to be out of touch and corrupt,
The only way for democracy to have even the remotest chance is for there to be no one main part, for every single constituency to have local candidates whi will fight not only for the people local to them, but also for all residents of the UK.
They will not all agree, but that is so very good, because with open discussion there is a pause, a realisation that reasonable arguments with true facts need to be presented and questioned. It gives all constituents a voice. It brings devolution from any central government. It’s restricts dishonesty and bribes. It reduces the ability for any one country or culture to command the country. And it makes it far more difficult for the MSM to discredit every candidate by blanket slurs.
Of course anyone thar meets the standard may stand, but at last we may get some none career politicians that put themselves forward for the right reasons. Ensure each candidate lives in the area they stand.
It is expensive for individuals to put themselves forward but networking and other ideas may enable passionate but poverty challenged folk to stand.
Sadly no matter what we do, disabled folk with be under represented, because if they rely on their entitlement (again not bloody benefits, there is no benefit to living restricted lives), the current government and the DWP will ensure they are punished in the form of sanctions and worse.
But we truly could do this, the people are that fed up, frustrated, distrustful, disenfranchised and angry at all politicians and their parties,just might vote in a huge majority of independent MP’s of the 650 UK constituencies.
All I ask is try to avoid extremists, and most of all previous party politicians.
We could do this.
If you agree in principle, please share on all social media this idea. Sadly I only know how to use Facebook.
#politics #honesty #politicians #uk
So again Sunak pushes the UK into war, over not morality, not security, not protecting people, but over vast mineral deposits to be had.
No actual declaration but £500,000,000 he has now pledged (on top of the massive amounts of money and equipment already given), to fund the weapons for a morally suspect foreign power, this when we have not only cuts to all the services we need for people to survive, but also a crisis where children and their parents are going without food and shelter and excuses of lack of money to resource our NHS.
This government does not provide for the basic needs of our citizens but funds death abroad, pretending we are still a bloody imperialist super power still, not the poverty stricken pathetically isolated nation with likely the world’s largest divide between the extremist rich and destitute poor.
This needs to stop, we should not be awaiting a faux election to end this, especially when the country has no actual opposition to corruption, profiteering, cruelty and the theft of all our remaining nationally owned assets.
It really is the time to make the stand. Truly.
I truly believed that civilization had moved on from medieval times, that life was valued above all else. Then I reached puberty, I was at the miners demos in London, I stood against Shah on the picket lines in Warrington, I marched for peace, for fairness, for equality. I took a stand against Thatcher, Blair and all the others.
I then realised people matter nought to government, any government. Their minions lose all humanity for the sake of an employee of the week badge. Their masters reward cruelty and corruption, their role of government solely to keep us in our place.
Democracy was always flawed, never fit for purpose. Now it’s not even a pretence.
If we do not fight and yes possibly bleed, for real change, the future will be devastating for those to come.
Freedom in Britain is already a fallacy, even the very basic rights such as right to life will soon be a distant memory, unless we all act now.
#Corruption #Cruelty #rights #Humanrights
Sunak is a murdering piece of scum, but sadly his vile plans will get people with no understanding of mental health, of chronic illness or disability to vote for his evil corrupt regime.
I am fighting to remain here, but every word this cruel bastard utters makes it harder.
Strip people of support, dignity and respect and you leave us with nothing. You stole the NHS, you stole our homes, you stole our greenbelt, you stole our industry, you stole our rights, you stole our freedoms, you now will steal our homes, our food, our lives.
If I have to go, I will count. If we all have to fight with out last breath we will. My body may be weak but my resolve is strong. I have lost family to your regime. No more!
I stand against cruelty. I stand against corruption. I stand against profiteering. I stand against your wicked murderous regime.
I have been diagnosed around 8yrs. In that time I have discovered every person’s path is different, but with all too many common features. The Internet is full of so called cures and treatments, all with their own guarantees.
I have tried a few, from creams to spices, honey and sprays, liquids to tablets. To be honest for me none have worked. But that’s only my experience.
Fibromyalgia is like it is with so many others, only one of my health issues, physical and sadly developing into mental health and effecting my emotional wellbeing.
Years of pain clinic resulted in my being discharged due to no further options left for non terminal patients.
So now it’s a lonely battle.
Diet may help some but my other illnesses make that complicated.
People scream exercise, but when extreme exhaustion sets in, exercise is the last thing on my mind, reaching for my underwear in the morning is a battle enough.
When I was diagnosed, a woman running the local support group told me not to worry, after 2yrs I would manage the fibro and be back at work. Like I said, that was 8yrs ago, and I truly am not in the position she forecast.
Fibromyalgia has reduced my social circle, stripped my confidence, stolen my options in life. My family do not believe in it, my kids, now adults share their mother’s view that I am a useless disabled lazy @*#%. They have no contact with me.
Reading this you may think you journey is hopeless, but it’s not, every single one is different as I said.
I personally may have quite a few days I can manages, where I can hide my pain, pretend I am not vulnerable, even do some things I did before illness hit. Other days though, no one sees me,I become a hermit, struggling to get up in the morning pr get back into bed.
Other folk cope better, or sadly for a few, worse.
The more manageable days are the only reason I continue. For others they may adapt, they may find a relief I have not.
So do not give up hope, but if you walk (shuffle in agony) a similar path to me, you are not alone.
And never despite all the pressure from the press, the dwp and others feel any guilt for actually living, on the few days you can.
To every producer of TV or film, nationally and internationally.
Rewriting history to present the past in any country, and especially Britain or the US as being inclusive, not only strips the recognition and respect we should have and hold for all those who came before us, who fought, bled, were starved, raped, abused, were enslaved, were made to live in servitude, survive in workhouses, exist in the hellish holds of ships, be made to be “civilised” at the cost of culture, heritage, history, land, homes, families, dignity, liberty, resources and lives, but it also makes to seek light of the struggles endured to reach where we were.
This has had the horrific effect of minimising what was reality, giving opportunity for consecutive right wing governments throughout the world to strip away the human rights won in rivers of blood, to ensure our and the generations after us had better inclusive lives.
What people are not realising right now is that making a new fake history will only truly give power to those who will turn the world around until the people they see as different, weak, vulnerable or even just an obstacle, again become accepted targets, not just of ire, discrimination but of fear, subjugation, slavery, and again death.
Look at how the disabled have to be visibly restricted for members of the public to accept they are ill, how they are subjected to cruelty and yes terror through the DWP and their vile profiteering minions such as Atos, and all the others involved.
Look at how families drowning in the freezing seas are seen as a threat, their suffering acceptable and their lives expendable, despite it often being our politicians and companies run by their family and friend networks that made many of these people homeless and stateless.
Those before us, those who had little understanding of issues beyond their next meal, a local wedding, the village boundary or how to stay out of the workhouse, but that we claim did nothing but accepted discrimination, subjugation, slavery, we look to ridicule, judge and condemn, but worse than that, we now write those atrocities out of history, in order for the past to fit in with the new current narrative.
This is beyond dangerous, and in my humble opinion actually marks an end to acceptance, an end to libertarian values, and ultimately heralds a path to new extreme levels of violence, new hardships, new trenches filled with the blood of all but the powered.
If there ever is a time where the four horsemen are destined to appear, it will be following upon the burning of our past, whether it be igniting the libraries or marking all historical fact as a fantasy fiction.
So please no more of depictions of a faux inclusive acceptable past, no more making history’s true villains, the Royals, the aristocracy, the barons, the business “men”, the mill owners, the trading companies, look anything other than the cruel, murderous, predatory, misogynistic, racist, corrupt, slave owning, oppressive creatures they truly were.
Yes we want the truth, and yes no matter how vile our history actually was, we can handle the truth, for by doing so it protects our future.
I commented upon a post about the state of the roads in Derbyshire.
Their post was this;
Why don’t some pothole repairs last?
We’ve been trying to keep residents up to date with where we are with fixing potholes on our roads at the moment, and one of the most common questions we get back is why some repairs just don’t last.
We know this is the biggest frustration, and we share it. We definitely don’t want to get to know a street on first name terms.
It can be the weather, materials or the surrounding road condition which means repairs don’t last. Particularly when it’s wet or freezes, this can mean repairs don’t last as long.
Sometimes we have to do temporary repairs for safety too. Or because we’re coming back to do permanent works soon (we’ll try to put signs up to let you know this where we can).
So, we do want to do one-and-done lasting fixes or resurfacing where we can, and we’ll keep trying to improve this, but hopefully this explains why it isn’t always possible.
Cost effectiveness wise, it costs less than £60 for a pothole repair, in comparison to tens of thousands to resurface a section of road. One recent example of this is the works on Bolsover Market Place: temporary safety repairs cost less than a few hundred pounds, and the permanent resurfacing works we’ve just done cost more than £50,000.
It also takes time to design and plan in permanent resurfacing works, with the need to organise things like surveys, traffic management and checks to see where utilities equipment might be.
If you want to find out the answers to some other frequently asked questions about potholes please visit our website. The link is in the comments below.
My comment was;
They do not last because you are using poor quality companies, with disinterested workers using once outlawed techniques such as inferior surface dressing, which literally redresses the road for a camera opportunity then starts deterioration immediately. Your managers lie to councillors stating that surface dressing is a long term repair and will last a minimum of three years, and sadly they are naive enough to trust those words without further discussion or investigation
When potholes are reported, if people can get to report them, given that when there are appropriate modern apps to do so, like fix my street, you realise their reports make you liable, so ban their use. Again lying to councillors who really have no interest in keeping residents safe.
The smaller repairs you undertake are inferior, and more akin to those undertook by rogue traders in the 1970s and 80’s upon peoples driveways. Probably the same cowboy companies are often used by DCC as successful tenders do not need to meet quality standards, just be cheap.
You then argue constantly about who is responsible for the reported repairs. Reported seem to vanish in the either, and if you look at those roads in Tupton, Grassmoor, Hasland, Storforth Lane, Clay Cross and even close to your head office in County Hall, where I personally have reported potholes to Call Derbyshire #CallDerbyshire and your app, if thevreports are actually acted upon, where an entire stretch is damaged but only one hoke will be repaired …badly.
I ride a motorcycle and for us, that do, for horse riders, cyclists, pedestrians as well as in many cases car drivers, every pothole and road disrepair (and actual so called repair such as again surface dressing or resulting ridges) are a real risk to life. When I do ride now, it’s not fun, it’s constantly looking at tarmac to ensure I do not have an accident. If you doubt this I will gladly take any of your managers ir councillors out for a day around Derbyshire. #derbyshirehighways #DerbyshireCountyCouncil #derbyshire
They replied to me:
Thank you for your comments.
Surface dressing is widely recognised as a value for money solution to seal the road surface from rain water. Rain and frost are the biggest enemies of our roads as combined together they damage the surface and foundations of the road.
Some surface dressing work is contracted to suppliers who work nationally and to accredited standards.
We also check the surface dressing works and make sure contractors rectify repairs that do not meet our standards at their cost.
With 3,500 miles of roads across the county, we have to prioritise the potholes we repair, for safety and financial reasons and to minimise disruption for local road users. This means that we are unable to fix every pothole at every site.
Recent exceptional weather conditions, including last October’s Storm Babet, brought a month’s worth of rainfall in a matter of hours. On top of this, we’ve had double the usual rainfall over recent months.
We’re not alone in dealing with these issues – the weather has created pothole issues across the country.
We are currently fixing around 2,000 potholes every week.
So my subsequent response is this;
Derbyshire County Council your response in my educated and informed opinion is absolute tosh. Whoever checks the quality of work undertaken needs either retraining or dismissal. Again I make the offer to take any or all of your managers, councillors or executive officers out for a day on motorcycles to demonstrate just how deadly the roads here are, and to prove there is little or no actual quality control. We can look at areas with no repairs along with areas where your claim that quality repairs have been undertaken. I am almost 57yrs old, I have lived through many Storms, and far more extreme weather than in recent years,I have been driving and riding 40 years and have never known the roads anywhere in the UK to be as bad as Derbyshire roads currently are. We can also ask reporters from the The Mirror The Guardian Reuters and even the local Derbyshire Times , Highlight The Truth
Derbyshire County Council Derbyshire Bikers Volunteer Riders UK #derbyshirehighways Peak and District MAG #peakdistrict #peakdistrictnationalpark #northeastderbyshire #derbyshiredales #matlockbath #countyhall #ambervalley #southderbyshire #highpeak High Peak #derbyshirefireservice #eastmidlands East Midlands Ambulance Service #airambulance #dlraa
The offer of a ride out on a motorcycle is open to any anyone with a vested interest in the safety of all road users not only in Derbyshire but anywhere in the UK. We are tired of the risks we all take every single day.
We have amongst our numbers nationwide parents, their children, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews, nieces, friends, partners, and they may be tradesfolk,mikitary personnel, people employed and those unemployed, for whatever reasons, we have butchers, bakers… police officers, teachers…. I myself was a social worker ……doctors, nurses, porters, celebrities ……. the list goes on, yet it seems Derbyshire County Council, along with other council officers and managers all over the UK, and more importantly the politicians from all parties who have allowed cuts to services we pay for, show nothing but contempt for our lives, the lives of anyone using our unfit for purpose neglected roads.
This is an opportunity for those responsible to experience the risks before making glib responses from their office chairs.
I have a story to tell very soon. Its not yet complete, awaiting to find out if a happy ending or not, but already scandalous beyond reasonable expectations. It won’t be a blog, tic toc or farcebook post, when this goes public, it will be very public, and I suspect will completely ruin reputations.
Jonesy, simply a human 