Back To The Beginning 3: Uplift For Some, No Lift For Many

It looks like, while the £20 uplift has been extended for another 6 months, legacy claimants are again shafted. This has made me extremely angry; it is a real injustice. Completely arbitrary political bullshit; the Tories at their cruellest. Again. I'll be ok, it's not life or death for me. It is for some, for many struggling invisibly against not only the pandemic but the indifference of the callous ruling, monied, class. Sunak doesn't care, he's a fantastically wealthy banker married to a billionaire. He's also ignorant of how our economy really works. But that isn't a justification for extending the uplift; parity at the very least is important. This is just sickening.

This is a man, a performing clown, who will tell you that hard work matters. It doesn't. Sure, by all means, work, but what they mean is work longer. Everyone thinks they work hard, while everyone thinks their neighbour doesn't. That's divide and rule. That's Brexit Broken Britain. We live our lives surrounded in false ideology, like a religion. Nobody questions it. They fear the economy will somehow collapse like pulling the thread of a fragile rug.

They tell you that, if you do work hard you'll get the big rewards. You don't. This is demonstrated every day in every country. If people only had to work hard, nurses would be living in mansions not bankers. They aren't. Sure some people get the reward, but it's as if pot luck. Besides capitalists don't want you working hard. That implies working more efficiently - getting more done in less time. They want more out of you in terms of surplus value. All they want is more production. That's all that matters to them. That's all Sunak cares about.

Do you want to live like that? Then, when a crisis comes, be on the wrong side of the Tories and who they value in society. It is an odd decision to pretend to care about some claimants. I can only assume the decision to exclude legacy claimants is simply one of expediency: it's cheaper to pay some rather than all. I can't imagine it motivates people to apply nor do I believe that's what they want. They'd rather no one claimed anything, but for all I know there's perhaps a more sinister purpose. Besides all the advice I've seen (from not-Tory sources knowledgeable on welfare) is don't apply - or at least don't move over unless you have to because Universal Credit is still a shit show. Though of course what choice do potential claimants have? I can't believe this is an inducement.

So there we are; the disabled are once again the invisible. Forgotten and ignored at a time when they need the government (if we must have one, even this one) the most. Who stands for us? No one. We really are on our own in this society. The hand of support, compassionate conservatism (they have to put the qualifier in because there is nothing intrinsically compassionate about conservatism), pushes you away. All for the sake of twenty bloody quid.