Last week the news came that the UK was officially in a recession, to many this wasn’t a surprise. To be honest with you I thought we were already in one. While the past 14 years living under Tory rule have been hard, the last couple in the cost of living crisis have felt excruciating, especially for low-income disabled people. But of course, these are also the people who are being blamed for the recession.
The narrative was as easy to see coming as the press calling it a Rishession (no, we’re not doing it). Obviously, the crippling debt the country is in is down to people who are too sick to work, “languishing on benefits” and taking the hardworking taxpayer for a ride.
It’s absolutely not down to the fact that the government has wasted billions of taxpayer money, including the billions Boris Johnson’s government wasted while Rishi Sunak was chancellor.
It’s certainly not the fault of a government that carved up public services and then sold them off piece by piece to their Tory donor pals, like the NHS. No, just to be clear, according to the Tories that’s down to disabled unemployed people draining services. Ignore the fact that waiting lists are at an all-time high due to funding and staff shortages.
And it’s absolutely the fault of disabled unemployed people who are struggling to heat their homes, not British Gas who boasted that in the last year their profits have increased more than 10-fold from £72m to £750m.
This is of course all sarcastic, I had to point that out because many other columnists will spread this seriously without a hint of introspection.