āHomeā Alone
You may have heard that Boris Johnson has recently become the leader of the Conservative Party in the UK, and, as such, the Prime Minister. This wasnāt an election open to the general public; party leaders are elected by the members of that party, and itās no real surprise that the Conservative Party members like conservative candidates.
This isnāt a post about that, per se; there are plenty of other people detailing all of his failings and horrifying attitudes and behaviours. Itās just an illustration of how the political situation in this country is devolving faster and faster. I started talking about this in 2014, just a couple of years after I first got on tumblr at all, and Iāve been talking about it ever since, whenever I have the mental fortitude to do so - which, right now, isnāt often.Ā
But, hey, whatās another list of my deepest fears?Ā
I wrote a post a year or two ago with some of the things that weāre facing here, in the UK. Iāll link the entire post, but here is the most important paragraph:
āBut. I have been saying this. I said it when reports came out of the huge number of people dying within a few weeks of their disability claims being denied or revoked. I said it when a coroner went so far as to name the DWP as the cause of death on a death certificate for a disabled person. I said it when we started seeing stats of the huge proportion of cases of denied benefits that were winning at appeal or tribunal (and the huge barriers to even getting to appeal or tribunal in the first place). I said it when we heard about the suicide baiting in disability assessments. I said it when we heard that, even if you could get them, disability benefits were leaving people cold and hungry.ā
These arenāt stopping.
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