The British Government No Longer Represents The Will of the People

UNIVERSAL CREDIT CUT - The outpouring of anger and frustration at the removal of the £20 a week uplift is simply unprecedented. Hundreds and hundreds of organisations on the newsfeeds that we subscribe to are calling for this £20 per week uplift to be continued.

Many people were living in food poverty before and during this increase. The £20 cut will lead to starvation, illness, and death.

The Tory government are not listening. So far, the public response has been vigorous and vocal but good-natured. People are appealing to the government's sense of reason and their sense of fairness. Give it another three months and the mood could change into something much uglier.
Insulate Britain are showing how a small group of people can bring major motorways to a standstill.

There is a lesson to learn from their actions. In three months, people are going to be fighting for their lives, fighting to survive. Food banks cannot make up the difference. You cannot live and survive on benefits set at this level.

Some would argue that the upper classes want a showdown with the poorest. That these actions are not because they cannot understand the plight of those on very low incomes, but because the Tory government is trying to deliberately provoke a reaction in the way they goaded the miners into confrontation.
We shall see what the future brings, but if things boil over it could very nasty indeed in a polarized nation where both rich and poor will show no quarter to each other.

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