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There Will Be Blood On The Streets
Britain’s die is cast…
The winter of discontent is well and truly upon us.
And the patience of the British people has finally snapped.
It took a very long time to get to this point. But we are finally there.
We are at breaking point.
The Conservative government over the last 12 years have striven to squeeze every ounce of wealth from the British people and they have succeeded. Quite spectacularly too.
From austerity to Brexit, to soaring inflation and now devaluation of sterling, we are at the end of our tether.
There’s nothing left to squeeze anymore.
The Conservatives have taken the British people for fools and you know what?
We have been profoundly stupid.
Stupid enough to believe that austerity was the right policy to pursue when the British people had only rescued the banks to the tune of hundreds of billions of pounds.
Stupid enough to believe that the disabled man and woman with a spare bedroom in the council house was the problem, when George Osborne decided to raid our personal space.
Stupid enough to think that the Polish plumber, Romanian fruit picker, the Kosovan road sweeper, the Congolese…