There are days when I think about shows like Benefits Street
and see how such blatant propaganda is being used to cultivate public opinion
that I find myself saying yet again "F--- it all, I am off to China".
Only 4 pieces of paper are required for me to waltz back
into China yet Housing Benefit requires 29 TWENTY NINE pages
Twenty freaking Nine.
The Tories have no desire to cut red tape or to make
Government smaller (They just outsource Govt. functions to things like
academies and there have been reports of academies creating
non-bid/non-tendered contracts (essentially handing a contract to a specific
body without any attempt to see if the market would have created a cheaper
option for the school through competition). Another example of the Coalition's refusal to shrink the state can be seen in the creation of DRIP.
Not water, DRIP is a policy of data retention wherein the
Govt. will store as much data about your internet browsing habits as it so
desires. Knowing the British, our Govt. would probably lose half of it on a USB
stick in the London tube or have that data stored by an external body (private
company) that gets attacked. 0_o
Cameron's move could win him votes... but only from the
people that have no idea how soiled their beds have become and think that
blaming poor people, the foreign people, the LGBT people, non-white people or
the E.U will result in something good. (I must have missed the memo where
Nigerian nurses and Eastern European Laborers were running the banks instead of
rich white men...)
Shows like Benefits Street
and see how such blatant propaganda is being used to cultivate public opinion
that I find myself saying yet again "F--- it all, I am off to China". Only 4 pieces of paper are required for me to waltz back
into China yet Housing Benefit requires 29 TWENTY NINE pages
Twenty freaking Nine. Yet apparently our system is so easy, people are flocking to claim from the welfare state, they are all eager to fill out TWENTY NINE PAGES TO CLAIM A BLOODY PITTANCE that they will never see. I find such claims that immigrants come here to claim a depressingly small sum of cash an unlikely story. Now I am working I am able to buy things, like a Saxophone. Whilst claiming from welfare I had to fill in lengthy documents and receive £140 once a fortnight.
DRIP, despite what the acronym implies, is in fact a massive
goosestep towards huge state surveillance.
DRIP is a policy of data retention wherein the Govt. will store as much
data about your internet browsing habits as it so desires. Knowing the British,
our Govt. would probably lose half of it on a USB stick in the London tube or
have that data stored by an external body (private company) that gets attacked.
Labour should have opposed this, they would have taken heavy
fire from the Coalition on account of Labour’s role in the mass surveillance that was rolled out post 9/11. However in all honesty DRIP never needed to be pushed through…it never needed to exist
in the first place. But never mind that, some poor person has just claimed the JSA that shirker is the real evil! ¬____¬
This was not a blog.
Just a meander.
Not even a chapter.
Thank you for reading though.
Have a great week,
The Common Sense Eccentric
