51st State of America

[djpsyche]

So, the Tories won the election. And have taken this as a mandate to scrap the Human Rights Act, force the disabled into work, and continue their drive to make the rich richer and the poor homeless

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[lareinemisere]

I'm not sure they necessarily want to make the poor homeless: if people starve to death or resort to suicide at home it's less untidy on the streets and they can carry on pretending that 'we're all in this together'. *grimaces*

But, yeah, having graduated and started working in the public sector towards the end of an 18-year period of Tory rule and seen the impact back then, I am dreading what they are going to do this time and feeling a need to Do Something.

[zenithed]

The fact that the country I moved to now wants to go

Well, just over a third of them. I'm still in shock to be honest, but definitely agree that fighting (and more importantly persuading) is the best response.