Reaping what you sow- Clegg get over it!

 

 

 

This week saw the cringeworthy interview in the New Statesman, where when asked about public attacks on him after joining the coalition with the Tories, he claimed media representations of him were outlandish “cardboard cut-outs”. He also came out with this line- "I’m a human being, I’m not a punchbag – I’ve got feelings."

What a turn around from this time a year ago when Clegg was the darling of the television debates and his call for an end to broken promises seemed like a breath of fresh air for many. Now for many, the name Clegg is synonymous with betrayer and Judas in especially student circles.

I for one have ABSOLUTELY NO SYMPATHY for him. He has brought public ire upon himself, with his betrayal of students by supporting a RAISE in tuition fees, standing idly by when EMA was scrapped. And with this whining outburst he doesn’t seem to get that people hate whiners especially when they bring their problems upon their selves. Even his plan for social mobility with plans to outlaw unpaid internships, a noble goal I must admit, were brought into disrepute when it was revealed he had an unpaid intern and as Harriet Harman rightly stated, he cannot “pontificate” about social mobility when his policies are doing much to worsen it.

Clegg you may not be a punchbag and you may be human, but so are WE! Why should we be punchbags for your policies that will rob many young people like me of aspiration, of hope? You made your bed, now lie in it!

Why Judas, why is it you cry?

You who charmed a nation with your lies,

You who kick away the ladder for us to climb,

You who sold yourself for power,

Yet you smile when the axe falls, you stand by,

When you rob us of hope do you hear our cry?

As the proverb goes, you reap just what you sow,

False messiah your lies have weighed you down to an all time low!

Clegg- how things change! Protests at the LD conf!

How things change eh? This is probably the feeling Nick Clegg is facing with the massive protests that prompt his retreat behind the RING of STEEL replacing the adulation before the election. I wonder if he remembers this video he filmed- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTLR8R9JXz4 , where he promised ’no more broken promises’ only to break this promise and about every other promise he made, such as on tuition fees, the list really does go on as we know. Well if he did forget, I’m sure the 5000 protestors would have reminded him.

As a defiant statement to attempt to shrug this off, Clegg has told his party that “You can’t do everything when you are in power, but you can’t do anything when you are not. With power comes protest. We need to get used to it.” Yes Mr Clegg you cant do everything whilst in power but to completely abandon your principles and to betray the students who you so cynically targetted with your job is’nt just one of those things. It is a shameful betrayal.

At the conference, a vote held by delegates sent a message to the Conservatives that that many Lib Dems are opposed to market reform of the health service, any fragmentation or destabilisation of NHS services by new private providers or the lack of accountability for the spending of public money envisaged in the model of GP commissioning promoted in the government’s health bill.

So where does this leave the coalition then? Possibly not in a different position than before I think, however discontent from the public remains at fever pitch, and with many of their members seeming to disagree profoundly with the government, it will be choppy waters ahead for the good ship coalition. So where does this leave us? We should not rest on our laurels on this, as a woman I spoke to on the doorstep stated to me that whilst Clegg and Cameron are instant turn offs for many voters, Labour still needs to fight for every vote, to give people a real and hopeful alternative and many do not seem to have seen this as of yet. We still need to fight and fight hard for what we believe in like the NHs which is under threat. Many have signed this petition on 38 degrees calling for the Gov to rethink its plans for the NHS, and I urge you who read this also to sign to send a message- http://www.38degrees.org.uk/Save-our-NHS . Only together can we send a message to this government that enough is enough!

Clegg’s feeble attempt to shrug off genuine anger and protest shows us how out of touch the coalition are, and how in his opinion, he has done nothing wrong. What a difference a year makes, how things change!

Happy new year to one and all!

The last day of what has been a momentous year. The political landscape of Britain has changed, I for one got involved in the fray and I met quite a lot of good friends along the way. To all of you and you don’t need naming, I heartily thank you and I love you all. Today, in his New Year message, David Cameron attempts to rebut the charge that the government’s spending cuts are ideologically driven, stating that:

I didn’t come into politics to make cuts. Neither did Nick Clegg. But in the end politics is about national interest, not personal political agendas. We’re tackling the deficit because we have to – not out of some ideological zeal. This is a government led by people with a practical desire to sort out this country’s problems, not by ideology.

As one of my twitter friends stated, he should be on the new years honours list for acting. What a load of rubbish. For instance, someone wrtiing on the New Statesman site states that the cuts inflicted will be permanent, citing an occassion when Cameron was asked by a Fire Brigade worker last summer if funding would be restored once the deficit has been addressed, Cameron replied:

The direct answer to your question, should we cut things now and go back later and try and restore them later, [is] I think we should be trying to avoid that approach.

The article uses this to say that “the Prime Minister’s insistence that we should try to “avoid that approach” reveals an ideological attachment to the small state and to low levels of public spending. The result will be permanently shrunken public services.” For many who will be blighted by job losses, losses in benefit and other services such as EMA, this new year will seem very bleak and make no mistake, these cuts that ‘are done at a peace of ideological zeal’ will affect all of us. For all of us, the deceipt of Clegg and cameron will not be a memory we can put in a box labeled last year.  In Ed’s message yesterday, he gave an indication that there is hope, another way. We all need to, and quickly in my eyes, chart a course of what we oppose (specifics) and how we will go about opposing. We need to produce a new years revolution (I coined that) in how we think and our approaches, to give hope to those under threat. Come on Ed, your speeches are gold, but we also need action! Lets bring a message of hope and action in these dark days ahead, and make sure we can bring some happiness into this new year!

Janus

Janus guards the gateway,

Two faced, fork tongued,

Lies disguising the truth,

He stands guarding the doorway to a darker future,

Future where the light of hope extinguished,

Aspiration robbed, too high was its price,

We pass through with hope in our hearts,

As there is another path, another way,

He knows it, the dark night will be followed by the day,

We will oppose him, be the light in the drakness,

Love for our common brothers will keep us warm,

We march, you forget Janus, two faced one,

The doors are open to let in the new year,

We march for a fairer way, without fear!

Another pledge from the pledge-breakers!

Barely a couple of days after Cable’s endorsement of the Browne report heralded a betrayal of their tuition fees pledge, Nick Clegg has made another pledge, stating that £7bn will be spent over four years improving the education of England’s poorest children. This extra funding is thought to provide 15 hours of free pre-school education a week for two-year-olds, a “pupil premium” for those at school and help to get to university.

The deputy PM said that “next week’s spending round would see “difficult cuts” but would also invest in “fairness”, adding that £300m would go on the pre-school support and about £150m a year would be targeted at bright youngsters who might otherwise have been “deterred” from going to university. Ha, how ironic when higher uncapped uni fees may put these very children off going to uni!

SO, the question in mine and everyone elses heads is where is this money going to come from? What will be cut in order to fund it- public sector cuts? The government has not confirmed how the £7bn will be found, maybe it will be part of the surprises in store next week, Oh the joys!

To me, and to others this is another pledge from people who don’t seem to be very good at honouring them- have they forgotten the Tuition Fees pledge so soon? Something about the policy seems to good to be true! Is it a genuine method of ensuring child equality for disadvantaged children or a cynical exercise to placate his Mp’s who may potentially rebel over the Browne report? Will we ever get a straight answer and get rid of the riddles? Time will tell!

The deciever concocts his mysterious schemes to the bells of old Big Ben,

Bereft of free will, he crawls on his kness to the lord of number 10.

You can cover the cut with a bandage,

You can drug us to numb all the pain,

Yet the scar will remain from the cuts that you make with your lord in number 10.

Our goal to expose your traitorous words, to the sounds of old BIG BEN!!!

CONDEMNING THE CON-DEMS

Remember this, Nick??

Ever since this unholy alliance was created (behind closed doors!!), I have seen it as the Lib-dems selling their principles for power, like a prostitute.  The most infamous example of betrayal being their complicity in the rise of VAT, when in the election they famously warned about the “TORY VAT BOMBSHELL”.

I know all who read this will think, he’s bound to say this due to his political affiliation, but some of my friends who voted Lib-dem in the election feel betrayed and one of them even said to me that she feels ashamed that she voted for Clegg in the election. In fairness to her and those who voted Lib-dem, none of them could have foreseen that they would make a deal with the tories, and betray everything they claimed to stand for. Due to this, I have vilified them in poetry for their betrayal, trying in some way to air and give voice to those betrayed by Clegg selling his soul to the Devil.

JUDAS

Betrayed, the feelings of those who backed him,
Those who believed in him as an alternative,
A change, a chance for fairness.
Judas betrays them, his 30 pieces of silver a share of power.

He abandons his beliefs, his principles, his promises.
There goes a fairer vote, there goes delayed cuts,
An unholy allaince, a marriage of convienience for Delilah
Will he pay for his betrayal, will he pay for his duplicity?

The Storm

We all knew they were coming,

We could sense the calm before the approaching storm.

A portent of doom,

A warning in the air.

The storm finally breaks,

The axe man cometh, beheading spending with zeal, with glee,

Once again we, the poorer carry the burden,

Once more, the makers of the mess get off scot-free.

Indeed, he gives with one hand and punches with the other,

Punches again, harder and harder.

Pilate surrounds himself,

Seeming to wash his hands, pass the blame,

Whilst his lovers ‘let the blood be upon their hands.’

The waiter nods his head contently,

Shame upon him who sells his values, his soul for power!