Why Aren't You Revolting?

The more those Tory bastards and their coalition partners the Tory Lickspittles run roughshod over the economy, the welfare state and our liberties, the more I find myself shouting at people: Why the fuck aren't you rioting in the streets?  Why aren't you storming the gates of Downing Street and putting 'Call me Dave' Cameron in the stocks, where he belongs?  Really.  What is it going to take for people to wake up and see these bastards for what they are - profiteering scumbags interested only in lining their own pockets and those of their wealthy corporate friends?  What more evidence do you people need?  Surely the selling of access to Downing Street by a senior party official is pretty conclusive evidence that they are corrupt bastards?  And if you wanted any more proof of their class-based attitude to poverty and deprivation, look no further than this week's disgraceful capping of benefit increases, which flies in the face of all decency.  What astounds me most about this latest outrage is the fact that some people actually buy the justifications the likes of the deplorable Ian Duncan Smith make for this move.  Honestly, the very idea that it is only 'fair' to cap benefit increases because wages aren't rising at the same rate is utterly ludicrous.  If people on benefits were actually getting the equivalent of the average weekly wage, it might just be a tenable argument.  But, contrary to what the Tories and their friends in the media will have you believe, they don't.  Unemployment benefit - sorry, Jobseeker's Allowance as we're meant to call it now - is barely 11% of the average wage.  By imposing below inflation rises on benefits, the government is forcing the poorest in society even deeper into poverty.

But what should we expect from the likes of Work and Pensions Secretary Ian Duncan Smith, who appears to strayed into politics from the pages of some Victorian novel, on a moral mission to punish the poor for being 'shirkers'?  Because - in his antiquated world view - being poor is their own fault for not being industrious or enterprising enough, or for being born in the wrong place.  Poverty is a choice according to his Victorian values.  Of course, there's a contradiction at the heart of his misguided ideology - whilst 'anybody can succeed, regardless of their background or social class, simply through hard work' is its mantra, it also believes that there is a natural social order and that the poor are at the bottom of this order and should know their place.  The only poor people deserving of help are those who do know their place and understand that they must aspire to nothing more than a life of drudgery in low paid casual jobs, with no pension rights, sick pay or security.  Why are we sitting here taking this kind of crap?  Particularly as it is coming from a man who is, by any measure, a complete failure in his own chosen field of endeavour - politics?  Let's not forget that this is the man who performed so poorly as Leader f the Opposition that his party didn't trust him to lead them into a general election, unceremoniously replacing him with Micheal Howard.  Frankly, someone who is considered even more of an electoral liability than Howard really isn't fit to hold any form of public office.While we're at it, let's not forget that this a government that wasn't elected on the popular vote - seizing power in what amounted to a political coup - and has no mandate for its extreme right-wing agenda.  So, what are you waiting for?  Get out on those streets now and start protesting!