Yes. Yes to all of this. These are all the things I want (plus NHS protection and increased funding) and like you I simply cannot believe and will not accept that these are things out of reach.
I think UKIP have a lot to answer for in this respect, they have significantly shaped which policies are the dominant ones in this election and by doing so they've centred things like immigration and managed to de-prioritise education (the ongoing privatisation of State schools by academy-conversion, the neoliberal turn in University culture and management) and housing.
They've also made immigration into the solve-everything-to-do-with-the-economy-with-one-policy issue instead of there being space for the scrutiny of the politics of austerity which Labour really should be targeting but seem content dance to the tune the right wing are singing.
I am worried. I have little hope of a decisive victory for the left(ish) which would at least halt the very worst parts even if I hold little hope for Labour reversing the effects of Tory policy. I fear the Tory's will be largely unimpeded to continue their catastrophic policy setting. I truly cannot imagine what our country will look like 5 years from now if they retain power. Certainly, where we are now is worse than I imagined it would be 5 years ago and I thought I was pessimistic then.
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Date: 2015-04-29 02:27 pm (UTC)I think UKIP have a lot to answer for in this respect, they have significantly shaped which policies are the dominant ones in this election and by doing so they've centred things like immigration and managed to de-prioritise education (the ongoing privatisation of State schools by academy-conversion, the neoliberal turn in University culture and management) and housing.
They've also made immigration into the solve-everything-to-do-with-the-economy-with-one-policy issue instead of there being space for the scrutiny of the politics of austerity which Labour really should be targeting but seem content dance to the tune the right wing are singing.
I am worried. I have little hope of a decisive victory for the left(ish) which would at least halt the very worst parts even if I hold little hope for Labour reversing the effects of Tory policy. I fear the Tory's will be largely unimpeded to continue their catastrophic policy setting. I truly cannot imagine what our country will look like 5 years from now if they retain power. Certainly, where we are now is worse than I imagined it would be 5 years ago and I thought I was pessimistic then.