byHARRY BLACKWOOD
More than
ten years ago when I first started banging on about the not voting thing,
virtually everyone thought I was bonkers.
Now, I'm
in great company. Not only are millions of 'ordinary' people realising that we
can't change the system unless we first smash the system, but people like
Russell Brand are articulating perfectly what I've believed for ten years.
Hell's teeth, even Jeremy Paxman has said he totally understands Brand's stance
on not voting.
Sadly, there
are people out there who just don't get it. They blabber on about voting being
our democratic right and something that people fought in wars for, blah, blah,
blah. Actually if they opened their eyes just a little, they'd see this
"democracy" is a complete sham. Smoke and mirrors. Throwing a few
crumbs to keep us plebs happy.
Well, I'm
not happy. I'm absolutely seething.
Here's
why.
* I don't
want to live in a society where the weak, the vulnerable, the sick and the
disadvantaged are picked on and picked off one by one. That is precisely what
we have seen the Tories and their LibDem bitches do since they came to power.
The sick. The disabled. Those with too many bedrooms. The long-term unemployed.
All have been in the cross hairs of the nasty party and ace marksman Iain
Duncan-Smith.
* I don't
want to live in a country where young people are told they have to work in crap
dead end jobs or they'll lose their few quid job seekers allowance. Or where
bright young people work for three years at university to get a degree and then
find they are £50,000 in debt and the only
jobs available are part time supermarket positions. Or where people graft in
Poundland for free to give them work experience. Imagine that: working in a
shop where everything is worth a pound except you.
* I don't
want to live in a country where obnoxious footballers are paid more in a week
than a neuro surgeon or a heart consultant will earn in a year. We have nurses
run ragged on £25,000 a year or less but
Wayne Rooney and his mates are earning a million quid a month. From a moral,
ethical and compassionate point of view there is simply no justification for
this nonsense.
* I don't
want to live in a country where corporations and wealthy individuals are
allowed to find loopholes in tax laws to avoid billions in tax every year. Tax
that would mean those poor bastards who are being made to suffer could actually
have decent lives.
