The real reason why people are sick to the back teeth of job
insecurity, rising food and energy costs, their friends and family members
losing work, becoming homeless, becoming ill or acquiring a disability and
finding it really difficult to get any support, but still not engaging in the
kind of numbers needed to effect change.
People really don’t trust anymore because they have been
lied, and lied and lied to. Politicians
of various hues have come along with a variety of policies and panaceas and are
repeatedly found out to be untrustworthy deceitful individuals. With Gloria de Piero, Labour MP for Ashfield
asking why people view politicians as “Axe Murderers” (strangely enough asking
people in Manchester, Yorkshire and South East London rather than
Nottinghamshire which is the place she’s paid to represent) the real issues is
the bare faced lies.
People know that they are being lied to because:
Of the U-turns
For so long people have heard that whether it be shutting down
libraries, youth centres, or the introduction of the pasty tax, the policy of
those in control is the only way forward ... only to find another way round it
shortly later.
Politicians hide the truth
Northamptonshire County Council like many other public
bodies is consulting on its budget with the headline to having to find £84.7 million of savings over the next four years. The Easy read version doesn’t even
mention that the decisions are predicated on the assumption that reserves or an
increase in Council Tax aren’t suggested.
This doesn’t even take into account that with changes to Council Tax
Benefit rules Councils will have a tougher job than ever before in collecting
money that they need to pay for services from people who simply don’t have any
money.
Other Politicians grass each other up
Even politicians on the same side dish the dirt on each
other. Probably the most memorable recent instance of this is Theresa May’s
assertion that an Asylum seeker used the Human Rights Act to successfully challenge a deportation order.
With so much going on, the even more depressing news is that
traditionally trusted sources of information like the BBC feel it’s OK to
repeat spurious claims about the increase in Tax credit claims and tax credit
fraud. For further information take a look at Sue Marsh’ blog here.
