The British Prime Minister is one of the Stupidest People Alive

[Mutiny In Heaven]

15. Cameron's cuts have hurt

the vulnerable the most. They have prioritised assisting and enabling the wealthy with massive, disprortionate tax cuts while intentionally doing all they can to shift the blame for the crisis on to "welfare". David Cameron can easily afford to back gay marriage because he's never going to get elected if he doesn't have as wide a coalition as he can, Britain simply isn't as socially backwards as the United States, but that's more of an indictment on the US and how far-right nutfucks have driven it for the majority of the last fifty years than it is a credit to socially liberal European countries.

See the fudging of statistics (pensions are included in the cost of "welfare" to society) designed to fuel support for their 'war on benefits'.

See the flagrant abuse of pensions which have those noted militants, TEACHERS to strike.

See their removal of working tax credits from families which work less than 24 hours per week (because it's SO EASY to find a job in the current environment).

See the faux shock George Osborne displays, who he CANNOT BELIEVE that some rich people avoid tax (but ya CAN believe that all of those welfare fuckers are cheating the system, can't you, George! Bastards! Not born (inbred) into the right stock, George! A little bit too much diversity in THEIR gene pool, the fuckers!).

See the removal of most legal aid, making something as routine as legal advice a horrible struggle to afford for poorer partners.

See the attempts to cajole the long-term sick back into work, something which, of course, disproportionately affects those with mental health issues.

See the NHS 'reform'. That is fucking terrifying.

See the 5% tax cut for people earning over £150,000 in a shattered economy, while this is going on. Shameful.

And so on and so forth.

The fact that Obama tried to avoid austerity is the only reason the US economy isn't as fucked up as Britain's. Of course, the GOP have managed to reverse the course somewhat, but the fact that it hasn't been balls to the wall austerity is the only reason it hasn't collapsed.

Labour, like the Democrats from the 70s to 2000s, made plenty of mistakes, but fucked up as they can be, it's nothing compared to the abject misery one feels under a Tory government if not protected by a bubble of wealth. Fuck them. As for the Liberal Democrats, if having a somewhat competitive third party does this, I'm delighted that there won't be another one for decades.