Benefits

We get it.

We know we're not supposed to live the life of Riley on Benefits.

But since when did Social Security become a benefit?

Until I got injured, I had worked all my adult life, I'd paid my dues, I had contributed.

Now though, I am a skiver, because I have claimed what is rightfully mine.

However, it gets worse.
In what is possibly the sneakiest move I have ever seen, I received no rise in my Incapacity Benefit last April, because they moved me (and probably thousands like me) onto ESA, which didn't qualify me for the increase, before it came about.
A 1% cap on benefits when civil servants have received only 1% wage rise that sounds like a good idea, until you realise that 1% of ESA is a lot different than the UK average salary of £26k.
It's (for me) less than a pound a week - and this is at a time when inflation might seem low, but where costs for basics have gone through the roof.
Electricity, water, basic foodstuffs have all increased by a lot more than 1% and, it now transpires, that many will also have to pay 25% of Council tax, and in some cases a new bedroom tax.

Where does it end, where will it end.
Whilst food banks can't keep up with demand, while people are losing their homes, while children go hungry and cold, our MP's decide what's really needed is a 32% rise in their basic salary to £86,250.
Think about that for a minute.

People on the breadline get a 1% rise, but MP's think they should get a 32% rise, and that's on top of all the expenses, allowances and outright fiddles.
Yeah right, "We're all in this together" my arse.

The hypocrisy is absolutely stunning in its downright arrogance - these people don't pay council tax, they don't pay tax on their (ahem) "expenses", they claim for everything they can, they have taxpayer subsidised food AND booze on tap in the commons, and they do it all with a huge grin on their faces because they know they are getting away with daylight robbery.

Meanwhile, someone like myself, who has actually contributed to the system instead of inheriting money from a tax dodging ancestor is being screwed for every single last drop.

We need to remember that these people don't give a shit about us.
They care about relatively few things, the most important being to keep their noses in the trough of the public purse, to look after their corporate masters, to prop up their rich banker friends using our money, and to keep their feet on the neck of the collective poor.

It's time we faced the fact that party politics is about one thing only - it's not about looking after, or helping the people of this country, it's about staying in power for as long as possible so they can perform "democratic" rape on the poorest in our society as they gorge on the misery they cause.