Why am I not surprised?

So, someone has finally figured out the obvious: that the government budget will hurt those who have the least in this country. Did anyone consider that the banks and financial institutions that were bailed out with public money would pay it back? Really? No, me neither.

Look, some people actually buy into the branding that companies do where they pretend to be human and slightly overfamiliar - be it from private companies or political parties, most of the time it actually doesn't do you that much harm, except when certain political parties use it to get into power, and as it turns out, they're going back to their old crowd of mates now, but they'll see you around, and they hope you're going to be dignified about it, then they will smile, except it won't reach their eyes and then they will walk away. You'll clutch your stomach, fighting back the burn of rejection you feel clawing at your insides and realise how used you were, and how you believed in them, that maybe things would have been different this time.

People voting for Conservative are voting against the concept of compassion, they give you permission to act selfishly, to climb up and pull away the ladder when you do, to deny the essential truth of our collective humanity and place on this planet.

'Compassionate conservatism' is an oxymoron, and picking on a few people who, just maybe, are the smart ones for figuring out the grift in the system to get all the trappings of a lifestyle that people have to work 60 hours a week for. Maybe we should be considering why we have to work so hard for so little, why work is so devalued now, that you have to work as hard and give up just as much to navigate the benefits system and all without the attendant dignity that just about exists when you work for a living. Seriously, there are measures that could have been taken to not offset the cuts onto the most vulnerable but those would be seen as against the true power in the Conservative Party - those who wish to keep as much money for themselves as they possibly can.

So, when and where do we say 'enough'? When do we start refusing to tolerate these things? The government should be afraid of us, to paraphrase Alan Moore, and it is time to start reminding them of that. You have to start figuring out what you are prepared to concede and what you are prepared to sacrifice so you can see things remain exactly as they are.