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UK food banks bring in counsellors and private GPs to help exhausted workers
“Britain’s food bank charities are buying in counselling, GP and mental health support services to help staff and volunteers cope with stress and exhaustion triggered by the explosion in demand for emergency food.
“The wellbeing services are a response to a rise in burnout and stress among frontline food bank workers as they deal with expanding workloads and the emotional burden of supporting increasing numbers of destitute and emotionally traumatised clients ...
“Emma Revie, the chief executive of the Trussell Trust, said the £30,000 investment was a response to the ‘unrelenting’ mental and physical effects on its staff ... ‘Most of our volunteers signed up to give out food parcels and be a friendly face spreading some love,’ said Su Parrish, operations director at the Easter Team food bank in Crawley. ‘They didn’t anticipate the level of stress that our clients now exhibit because of the situations they find themselves in.’”
“A voluntary movement that started in earnest in the UK just over a decade ago, and which is still relies predominantly community groups and churches, is having to adjust to an increasingly central and semiformalised social emergency role as austerity cuts to welfare benefits and public services push the human consequences of poverty straight to their door.”
#trussell trust#food banks#poverty#food poverty#austerity#benefit cuts#benefit sanctions#anxiety#stress#burnout#depression#mental health#conservative party#conservatives#tory party#tories#tory britain#austerity britain
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“What you call austerity is what I might call efficiency” – David Cameron.
When unelected, multi-millionaire Rishi Sunak appointed Suella Braverman as Home Secretary he was warned that he was only creating a future problem for himself and for the country at large.
“Sunak has appointed Braverman to appease the hardliners. It won’t work. Attempting to keep the Tory right-wingers at bay will only embolden them to demand more." (Prospect Magazine: 26/10/22)
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“The reappointment of Suella Braverman as home secretary - after she broke ministerial rules - sets "a dangerous precedent", MPs have said. (BBC NEWS: 02/12/22)
Sunak’s judgement when it comes to government appointees is clearly flawed and no more so than in his desperate attempt to shore up his premiership by bringing unelected Lord David Cameron back into government.
Cameron, together with his pal George Osborne, was the architect of Austerity, a financial policy that saw ALL of our public services cruelly starved of funds. Today's “Broken Britain” is a direct result of the Cameron-Osborne years: a crippled NHS, a chronic housing crisis, a dysfunctional justice system, a depleted police force, crumbling schools, rising poverty and homelessness…the list goes on and on.
Here are some frightening figures that can be laid at the door of Lord David Cameron.
“More than 330,000 excess deaths in Great Britain in recent years can be attributed to spending cuts to public services and benefits introduced by a UK government pursuing austerity policies, according to an academic study.” (Guardian:05/10/22)
No lesser paper than the Financial Times has this to say:
“The Tories' austerity programme made deep and lasting cuts to public spending, especially investment, eroding Britain’s state capacity" (FT: 23/12/22)
Wages below where they were 18 years ago, life expectancy down, avoidable mortality the highest in Europe, healthcare infrastructure halved, cuts to housing and community budgets causing deaths among children, are all the direct result of Cameron's and Osborne’s policy of austerity.
”Lives lost, earnings lost, years lost. Unlike Trussonomics, austerity is a slow and silent killer. For the best part of twelve years, the Conservatives sowed the seeds. This year they’re reaping the harvest.” (Financial Times: 23/12/22)
The sooner Rishi Sunak and his self serving government are ejected form office the better for all of us.
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Hating Tories isn’t just an ideological disagreement when you have skin in the game. I spent my teens and became an adult during the 2010s and was a young carer. Tory slashes to NHS funding meant no one bothered when my mum’s agoraphobia prevented her from attending the local mental health hospital for treatment. She really was left at home to rot. I have many friends and family whose circumstances weren’t their fault and Tory austerity made their lives demonstrably worse. So yeah, fuck Tories. It’s personal.
#uk politics#tory britain#socialism now#austerity kills#marxist#cull the Tories#austerity#intersectional politics#on my soapbox again#socialist#viva la resistance
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The Gravity of disability
I was less rubbish at physics than I was at the other sciences. but like most things at school, I struggled due to undiagnosed autism and didn’t really get it at the time. Doing all those Newtonian equations , I alway got annoyed about the gravitational constant being ten. No one ever really explained how smart Sir Isaac was and that what he was doing was essentially creating equations that would…
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#ableism#actually autistic#austerity#austerity kills#Autism#broken britain#disability access#disability rights#isaac newton#physics#Politics#Science#united nations
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Someone on Twitter asked who was the British politician who has harmed the British people the most. Of course all the answers were modern politicians - the earliest suggestion was James Callaghan. Looking further back in history, who were the really bad British politicians?
In order to not answer this with a long list of "History's greatest colonialist monsters," I'm going to focus on just the ones who had a negative effect on "the British people," and in order to not answer that with a long list of "the history of English oppression of the Irish," I'm going to focus on just harm done to "the people who lived in what is currently the U.K." I am well aware that this is highly restrictive, but I don't have the time to write a complete history of Britain.
So who's on my shortlist?
Pitt the Younger. Fought the Napoleonic Wars on the backs of the poor while violently suppressing any dissent with a police state. He passed the Treason Act of 1795 to criminalize dissent, the Seditious Meetings Act of the same year to criminalize public assemblies, spied on pretty much anyone who wasn't an arch-Tory, suspended the writ of habeus corpus, and passed the Combination Act of 1799 to criminalize trade unions. In a just world, would have died on a guilottine in Trafalgar Square.
Lord Liverpool. In the wake of the Peterloo Massacre which he was absolutely responsible for, passed the Six Acts to allow the government to search people's houses for arms without a warrant, arrest and transport people for owning weapons or attending a meeting that was deemed to involve unlawful military drilling, reduced due process, shut down all public meetings that involved politics or religion, arrest and transport anyone who wrote anything that criticized the government or Christianity, and heavily tax and impose bonds on newspaper publishers. In a just world, the Cato Street Conspirators would have exercised better tradecraft and assassinated him and his entire government.
Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington. Followed up his victory in the Napoleonic Wars by fighting a war against the British people. Arch Tory bastard, adamantly opposed any political Reform that would enfranchise ordinary people, and opposed Jewish emancipation while supporting Catholic emancipation. To be honest, I wish the mob had torched Apsley House with him inside when they had the chance.
As for the runners-up?
Bonar Law, Stanley Baldwin, and Ramsay fucking MacDonald for dropping the Geddes Axe and then subjecting British workers to twenty years of crippling austerity and repression.
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Who else thinks zero hours contracts f*cking suck ⁉️ Bit of a long one, but this is just my thoughts and personal experience with this hellish aspect of working life in the UK. I think we deserve better!
#uk politics#zero hours#labour movement#workers rights#my thoughts#political rant#ranting#tory austerity#fuck the tories#unionise#tory britain#politics#workers unite
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This is fucked, Britain's second biggest city dimming the street lights cos they're so poor.
Th big money some of these council twats take home is a reward for implementing the government's austerity
But it's not just the evil Tories, the labour council piss money away on vanity projects, lining their own pockets and making their mates flush.
A recent report said corruption in local councils is the rule rather than the exception. The amount of councillors & officials on the take is off the charts. It's standard practice. If you see a councillor on the streets, just assume they're a thief or a nonce and you'll be right more often than not.
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Welcome to Tory Britain.
"British children who grew up during the years of austerity are shorter than their peers in Bulgaria, Montenegro and Lithuania, a study has found."
"Experts have said a poor national diet and cuts to the NHS are to blame. But they have also pointed out that height is a strong indicator of general living conditions, including illness and infection, stress, poverty and sleep quality."
"GPs in poorer areas of the country have reported a resurgence of Victorian diseases such as rickets and scurvy caused largely, they say, by nutritional deficiencies. NHS data shows that about 700 children a year are admitted to hospital with malnutrition, rickets or scurvy in England."
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Gap between haves and have-nots widening, report warns - BBC News
"FIFTEEN YEARS of stagnant wages, family breakdown, poor housing, crime and mental health problems."
THIRTEEN YEARS of Tory-dictated austerity, corruption, the neglect and destruction of our public services and national infrastructure, just to make their cronies richer.
The unacceptable face of capitalism has broken Britain.
Time to fight back before it's all destroyed for good, and our future ruined irretrievably.
#british politics#uk politics#conservative party#fuck the tories#tory party#britain#uk#rich v poor#inequality#cost of living crisis
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Beware the slow blade
Last night the inappropriately named Home Secretary, James Clevery, came out with a statement that the Pro Palestinian protests need to stop and that there need to be a crackdown on the protests. He was swiftly backed by, our second unelected Prime Minister in a row, Rishi Sunak. Apparently, some MPs are feeling afraid…
Now where do I start?
Apparently, a couple of MP’s have taken to wearing…
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absolutely obsessed with making a propaganda saint and making it not be fully controlled by the government, symbolizing how real propagandas go out of control very easily once people start spreading them around and sometimes even turn into a mutation of the original to turns into the general consensus.
i also think val is scary but LEAGUES less horrifying than carson because holy FUCK 0_0
The intent was very much, 'ok, let's have Val murder a bunch of people horribly and erase them from existence, then see if we can spend the last ten minutes exploring whether she's really the worst person in the episode.'
The blatant uncontrollability of Val and the refusal of anyone to acknowledge that is an interesting point because it felt like a relevant jab at the condition of real-life politics right now (specifically here in the UK, although certainly it's very applicable elsewhere) where from Brexit to COVID to austerity to the environmental to the collapse of social care, there's a desperate collective refusal to accept the facts of how horribly things have gone wrong (and a constant media denunciation of anyone who wants to get us to pay attention to it as obstructive or treacherous).
And it feels less like 'just' propaganda at this point, and more like a desperate, horribly successful continued worship of deeply-embedded fantasies about Britain's status quo that could go on ignoring the far grimmer realities indefinitely no matter how many deaths are involved or how bad things get; the superstructure of a nation ploughing on as the base rots.
So it was very much deliberate that the entire meeting room voluntarily goes along with these absurd, blinkered lies (that Val is under their control, that this is a groundbreaking new kind of god and not just, as Shrue says, the same dangerous and reckless stuff that's come before, that it's unpatriotic and unhelpful to raise some fairly basic concerns); they don't need a liar's god to rewrite their own reality.
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