The new Tory Minister of cognitive dissonance perhaps? Make no mistake about what’s really going on.
The Austerity agenda has never been about balancing the books. Much more about attempting to deliberately create a ready pool of cheap labour for the benefit primarily of the top 20%. Hence the proliferation of zero hours contracts.
Guess what that’s not a contract it’s self-employment. There is nothing wrong with self-employment if it is actually by choice, but for many people it’s Hobsons choice.
Add to this how difficult it is to get any sort of employment once past 50 let alone 60. There is no even playing field of opportunity. Many people are likely to find themselves having to register as unemployed with all that that entails. It is also the case that many people may not be able to work in the same way that they did when younger for all sorts of reasons.
How did we get here? I am very clear as to how that’s happened….
Well today was a bad day. I felt very low, sometimes however much I try things just get on top of me. I get angry, frustrated and all logic goes out of the window. That’s one of the gifts depression brings to the party. So today I have been trying unsuccessfully to shift my mood with many distractions. Listening to music from my teenage years Neal Young, Elton John, Hendrix, Yes and also a bit of other stuff like the Dudley Moore trio. !968 to 1972 in particular was an incredible time more music and revisiting it helped me a bit. I am still fighting it out with a French Language course but being dyslexic doesn’t really help to much, but I can’t give up. So many times in my life it seems as though I have had to though. Its very frustrating, or maybe I am a lot stupider than I thought I was.
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