If you're innocent, law-abiding, mind your own business, and happen to be disabled, the Department for Work and Pensions will treat you like a criminal if you dare claim benefits that you are entitled to. They will make the whole application process painful, stressful and discouraging, with assessments carried out by the soulless employees of ATOS designed to disqualify you from any award by hook or by crook. The suicide stats don't make a lick of difference to old Blighty. They'll continue finding ways to kick you off benefits into the street. Rename, reassess, change the rules, turn the screw.
If you are one of the lucky ones to be awarded disability benefits then all you have to worry about are two final things beyond your own misfortune and ill health: trying to make a Victorian level of subsistence work for you in 21st century Britain. If you stay in but keep the heating off, don't eat much, make carbolic soap work for you, and go easy on the toilet paper, you might get by if you have a credit card to top up your DLA or PIP money. But be seen doing anything that may even momentarily resemble your being healthy or having a good day, and you'll be hounded through the courts as a benefits cheat until you're begging for the death penalty just to end the misery of persecution and tabloid scandal.
If you're a citizen of Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Diego Garcia, Yemen, East Timor, North Korea, Palestine or any other country that your handlers in the US or Israel or Saudi Arabia considers undesireable, then the UK Government will help displace you, bomb you, stigmatise you, and turn a blind eye to your suffering, regardless of whether it's given consent by the UN or the British people. All they need is an excuse or a sideways look or a suspicion or a 'highly likely'. If you're Russian then expect to be accused of anything and everything, from the toilet being blocked to your computer freezing up or your phone running out of credit. 'The Russians did it!'. Once it was because they were communists. Now, it's because…..well, just because….
If you happen to be one of the bought-and-paid-for in-crowd in the UK Government then you can take the entire country into illegal wars against people who have done you no harm at all. Weapons inspectors, whistleblowers and people of integrity who dare speak against you won't speak against you for long. You can get away with bloody murder, go through an enquiry that costs the taxpayer millions, come out clean as a whislte and continue raking in millions per year peddling the same old tripe with neither shame nor conscience, and all for the benefit of your own narcissism, and your criminal friends in the corporate and banking sectors.
Make speeches about peace and democracy and humanitarian aid and human rights whilst selling arms to oppressive regimes. You can go laughing to the bank whilst the innocent are bombed and burned, irradiated, poisoned and maimed with your UK made weapons. They're the bad guys afterall. So that must make us the….erm, good guys…right?
And just when you thought the bad news was over, "The United Kingdom, which possesses approximately 215 nuclear weapons, did not participate in the negotiation of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. It has said that it intends never to join the treaty. It voted against the UN General Assembly resolution in 2016 that established the mandate for nations to negotiate the treaty. It has failed to fulfil its legally binding disarmament obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty." [Quoted from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons]
Well done UK Government. Keep on standing shoulder to….ankle with the world's biggest bullies and hypocrites, make a joke of the nation by continuing to play poodle to the president, keep eroding our civil liberties so that British citizens are now guilty by mere suspicion, and keep on warmongering. It's worth all the suffering and sacrificing of innocent lives to preserve our Freedom, Democracy and all those other good old British values that you continue to demonstrate so well…