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Some days, life hands you shit. I look at the BBC coverage of the election and it looks as if the Tories have won. Not a landslide but a reasonable ruling majority. Unless there are a massive number of upsets in the uncounted seats, which there won't be, they can retain power.
I've had a long time to develop a burning anger against the Tories. Mine started when Thatcher was elected in 1979 and has been burning ever since.
When I worked, I used to work for the DWP, the Department for Work and Pensions. When I first started to work there they were called something else (the DSS) and it was a decent place to work, with generally good managers and people who meant well and wanted to serve the public and were dedicated to good governance.
It started to go downhill, not so much under Thatcher, because I felt the majority of the staff loathed her as much as I did, if not more, and there were few immediate changes in the way things ran. No, it was actually Blair, Thatcher-lite, when the rot really started to set in. That was when we started to get the management-speak and the dreadful 'positive mindset' bollocks.*
Under the latest Tory government it got much, much worse to the point where I started to think (and I first remember thinking this in around 2010) that I could not continue working for an organisation that seemed hell-bent on making things worse for ordinary people. I felt like a guard in a concentration camp, and I had to get out before it killed me.
I hate Cameron. I thought I hated Thatcher, but Cameron I detest. Even more, I hate Iain Duncan Smith, waster and hypocrite. I don't like hating people. I don't. It's a waste of my time and energy, but those two, I can't help loathing.
* On this point I recommend the book "Smile or Die by Barbara Ehrenreich which deconstructs the positive thinking industry and sets out why it's misleading and even risky for individuals, but very attractive for businesses and managers.
I've had a long time to develop a burning anger against the Tories. Mine started when Thatcher was elected in 1979 and has been burning ever since.
When I worked, I used to work for the DWP, the Department for Work and Pensions. When I first started to work there they were called something else (the DSS) and it was a decent place to work, with generally good managers and people who meant well and wanted to serve the public and were dedicated to good governance.
It started to go downhill, not so much under Thatcher, because I felt the majority of the staff loathed her as much as I did, if not more, and there were few immediate changes in the way things ran. No, it was actually Blair, Thatcher-lite, when the rot really started to set in. That was when we started to get the management-speak and the dreadful 'positive mindset' bollocks.*
Under the latest Tory government it got much, much worse to the point where I started to think (and I first remember thinking this in around 2010) that I could not continue working for an organisation that seemed hell-bent on making things worse for ordinary people. I felt like a guard in a concentration camp, and I had to get out before it killed me.
I hate Cameron. I thought I hated Thatcher, but Cameron I detest. Even more, I hate Iain Duncan Smith, waster and hypocrite. I don't like hating people. I don't. It's a waste of my time and energy, but those two, I can't help loathing.
* On this point I recommend the book "Smile or Die by Barbara Ehrenreich which deconstructs the positive thinking industry and sets out why it's misleading and even risky for individuals, but very attractive for businesses and managers.
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