Well hello again! General Election soon?

It's been a while. Last time I was here Theresa May was about to become Prime Minister. 

Blimey, where to start! Brexit... Boris Johnson... Liz Truss!

How have you been?

A Gen-real Election. Vote Tory?

Can anyone, with any sense, believe what the tories are telling us?  How it's all going to get better?  It's ten years of their bloody slashing our public services that have lead to a catalogue of social ills they could have put right at any time.

I had a friend you died on an NHS waiting list under the tories.  Labour won in 1997 and fixed it.  Now we need Labour to win again to fix it again!

Or am I being stupid..?

Same old same old?

Bloody hell.  Twat David Cameron lies about Europe and the country is suckered into Brexit - a row for the Tory party which might make the whole country suffer.  Then he quits!

This Seagull has no idea what's going on either.

Having said that, I once had a pint with Bob Crow - late leader of the RMT.  He wasn't that keen on Europe's direction.  Its human rights were good, but it excluded things like favouring UK companies for work and contracts. And re-nationlisation was against Euro Rules.  I was a bit star-struck, but I wish I'd asked him more.

And now we have a new woman Prime Minister.  I hope she has a bit more compassion for real people than the last woman Prime Minister.

Surely life has got to be about more than making a profit!  Hasn't it?  I'm still looking for work.  I can't get any help from benefits either, because apparently last year I didn't pay enough NI contributions!  I wish I'd feckin' known.  And doesn't it make a mockery of all those evil stories about "Immigrants coming over here and getting benefits!"  I'm living on handouts off me girlfriend and me good mates.

And Boris?  Foreign Secretary?

Rule Britannia!

Europe. What's all that about then?

I've been away for a while from this blog.  Mainly because my driving job ended.  It was minimum wage, a 48 hour minimum working week.  But it was job, even though having to travel across town at 4 in the morning was expensive.  Three buses and a walk.

Labour has a new leader.  You can't help but think his ideas might be good.  But also that the media and 'establishment' are not going to let him loose on the country!

And what the hell is all this Europe stuff?  Seems to me like it's just a Tory party argument.  I'd heard nothing about it.  What do you think?

I'm still looking for work.  Watch this space.

Why is TV doing the Tories Dirty Work?

I can't believe what's going on with the telly recently.  Although it's getting us all talking, I suppose.

The first 'Benefits Street' on Channel Four was a lazy, predicable look at people on benefits. Scroungers and probably thieves.  I was speechless! Mebbe the besuited media loves of London have never experienced unemployment?  Do they know what it's like to try and find a job? To send out, literary hundreds of CV's and be met, usually, with a wall of silence?  At best to be offered some illegal wage cleaning job?  To not answer the door, or the phone - if it's still connected - because you know it's going to be a bailiff or some minimum wage debt collector.  To not be able to do a simple thing like meet mates down the pub, because you're too ashamed to admit you can only only really afford a couple of drinks every couple of weeks and you can't really even afford that!

I expect the privileged silver-spooned patronising tory cabinet to not get it.  We're all scroungers.  But from the TV industry that gave us 'Cathy Come Home' in the 60's this sort of narrow-minded propaganda is outrageous and shameful.

Life on benefits is grim.  Very grim.  And when TV channels like C4 who are PAID to have some public broadcasting remit take the cheapest route and pedal right-wing prejudices with aplomb it's shameful.  Shame on you Channel Four.  Lazy, lazy, lazy.

Finance is failure?

Great to see the sea of tents around St Paul's and the Archbishop of Canterbury speaking out in their defence. I wish our masters would realise most of us are just pissed off with the injustice of it all. Never mind starving kids in the Third World, even in England some of my mates on the dole are going without food and heat while bosses of the top 100 companies are increasing their wages by 49%.

The Euro zone crises is just another example of how unbridled capitalism will ultimately eat itself. It's got to be time for smarter people than me to come up with another system. I've heard a few people on the telly already say that we should go back to Marx. His ideas apparently were very good, even if some of them have been abused over time.

But this system seems outdated and unfair. Maybe the internet will allow enough of us to change it.

Lib Dem Party Political Conference. But with Nick Clegg.

So the Lib Dems went to Birmingham. Good move because it's a good place is Birmingham. Good curry! I tried to watch a bit of the conference. The president or whoever he was was quite funny talking about the eventual divorce from the Tories. But there are three things I couldn't get out of me head...

1. It seems so obvious from the local elections in May that the Lib Dems are being used as a shield for the Tories. They took the flack for the current coalition and got hammered in the polls. The Tories did rather well, I seem to remember.

2. Lots of people I know voted for the Lib Dems at the General Election because they were more left of centre than Labour. Or so it seemed!

3. Nick Clegg. You may have integrity, but your COMPLETE u-turn from your pre-election promises has not only made you look like a complete liar, you have also made us question what ANY politician will EVER tell us. It's a grim and slightly depressing situation. And it's mainly your fault. I refer you to 'London Burning, below!