All I want for Christmas is this. . .

Thank you for allowing me to wake up this morning to see my children’s faces, on a year that I was finally able to bestow them with what I know they really wanted, not just what I could only afford.  
  
It wasn’t much, it wasn’t obscene, and it was way more than I had ever received but it was what they really wanted.  And I fulfilled that.  So I give many thanks for that.

I know that these things are only material and that they have no real spiritual value but to a child without a dad, a nannan, a granddad or any other extended family member that actually gives a shit about them, they actually mean a great deal. 

These presents say, I hear you. I love you and I will fight hard to be your one constant. 

And that is a gift worth much more than you would ever find under any Christmas tree.

The Tory Effect

I honestly feel as though everything is a waste of time. 

Society has become that engrossed with itself that it has become totally complacent, ashamedly desensitised and emotionally unable to deal with anything else that doesn’t involve them on some sort of personal level. 

I honestly fail to see anyone paying more attention to the national political crisis than they do to the fuckwits on Jeremy Kyle.

It’s such a sorry ass state of events. 

I was brought up in a generation that saw a poor example of an ambitious woman destroy everything the working man had built in his life, his community, his family and his livelihood.

I then grew up into adulthood to see wolf after wolf in sheep’s clothing, professing to know how to lead our nation to flourish but fucking off to feather their own bed as soon as they failed. 

I have heavily paid into an economy that values profit more than people - An economy that seduced the working class into believing that they could better themselves by moving up into the ‘middle class’ - A middle class whose income was never really designed to benefit them directly but to fund the exploitation and destruction of the working masses. 

I have raised my children to show them what real socialism and altruism means and for what? 

I have ensured that they feel good about themselves, that they are extremely educated and that they have at the very least, a basic survival level of emotional intelligence. 

And why do I do all this?

To prepare them for some over-privileged cunts abusing the name of democracy in order to take their working class rights away.

Sharia Law - A mysogynistic trip back to the dark ages. :(

As a liberated, strong female who is living testimony of the blood, sweat and tears of the following ladies (see footnote below), I am fucked if I am about to piss all that down the river because of some fuckwit Sharia Law.

I mean what the fuck???

1.       A Muslim man can marry who he wants (albeit atheist, agnostic or polytheist) but a Muslim woman can only marry a ‘Muslim’ man? 

This misogynistic shit sets the ascent of woman back hundreds of years.

How convenient that it fails to recognise and acknowledge that it was not until the appreciation of women that things actually started to move intellectually forward in society?

2.       The minimum age of marriage for a Muslim girl is 9. For a male it is 12. The girl’s father/guardian may arrange the marriage of the girl, without her consent, before she reaches adulthood. 

In the UK, and in a progressive society, this is called Child Abuse. 

3.       An adult man can marry four women but a woman can only marry one man.

????? – Er, I don’t think so.

4.       A man can divorce his wife without reason. The only reasons a woman can divorce is either if her husband is impotent, missing or biologically related to her. 

Nothing about subjugation, slavery, abuse or genital mutilation then?

Crime & Punishment:

1.       It is more offensive to insult the notion of ‘Allah’ than it is to murder, bodily injure or cause damage to someone’s property.

2.       Theft is punished by decapitation. Regardless of the circumstances than led to the thief to steal.

3.       ‘Zina’  - having illicit relations is punishable by 100 lashings and stoning to death.

4.       ‘Apostasy’ – Failing to believe in Islam in the way ‘they’ want you to believe it - Punishable by death.

Listen, I open my arms to people in need but I will stand up and fight to my last breath against any fucker having these perverted, twisted intentions against me or anyone I love.  

Emily didn’t throw herself under a horse for nowt and I ain’t gonna let any misogynistic regime piss all over her good intentions not one bit. 

Please, please educate and nourish yourselves with the endeavoured experiences of the following amazing ladies... Mughal Empress Nur Jahan, Margaret Sanger, Alexandra Kollonta, Charlotte Maxeke, Christine de Piza, Emily Davies, Laura Bassi, Lucretia Mott, Manuela Sáenz.. to name but yet a small few.

The not so pretty picture of globalisation

When I was a student, I once had to write a thesis on Globalisation. 

It didn’t mention slave labour, cruelty against humanity, governmental and commercial corruption, the sword-wielding hands of the IMF and the World Bank, the raping and exploitation of people’s countries, the capitalistic destruction of indigenous communities, the genocide of people for no good reason other than folklore and the ability to move shit, hide shit and dump shit on others on a global magnitude. 

‘Globalisation’ reinforced the illusion that networking with others was a positive thing.

We would all exchange goods and services in a free market, we would all prosper and we would all grow as a well nourished people-focused society. 

This ideology was sold to us on a gigantean scale because it was marketable and seductive. 

We could all achieve comfort and live well because we were drip-fed ‘pats on the back’ to relieve our social conscience because ‘we were helping others in deprived countries.’ 

Bullshit. 

Our capitalistic greed for material objects has destroyed everything and everyone. 

We’ve completely lost focus of what’s important and we’ve trampled on every fucking thing and everyone in our mission to do what we’ve been told is right for the ego. 

The only people who prosper are the people at the top of the hierarchy. 

The ones who don’t live the lives we lead, the ones who don’t sweat the blood and tears we do and the ones who have no conception of just what our lives are about. 

The very same people who exploit your good conscience and shit on it.

A budget for working people - NOT

‘No-one earning a living wage will pay tax on their earnings’ George Osborne, July 2015

New Tax Allowance - £11,000 / 12 = £916 pm. (£211 pw) = tax free earnings.

But yet implement the new living wage of £7.20 ph x 37.5 hrs = £270 pw (£54 to be taxed).

And then when it increases to £9.00 ph x 37.5 = £337.50 pw (which leaves £126.50 taxable).

Sorry George but you need to go back and look at your figures.

Oh, and Road Tax now to directly fund road renewal???

What the hell happened to all the money paid in before then?

‘A budget for working people?’

Well, I’m self employed and thanks to your extremely ill-thought out tax credit cuts, I will be working for £5k less a year now.

‘We’re all in it together.’

Yeah, like fuck we are.