I feel the need to get a few things off my chest. Please accept my apologies for the slightly incoherent ranting/preaching tone.

I am just a person living in the UK, by choice, on the periphery of the mainstream.

I am wealthy by global standards and indeed I have many more material possessions than I really need.

I am sickened by violence, particularly recent ‘terror’ attacks. I almost more sickened by the outpourings of racial and anti-immigrant hatred I see on the internet and in the media after such events.

I spent two years of my life living and working with some of the poorest people in the world – people so poor they have almost nothing and yet greedy landlords, corporations and corrupt governments keep taking more from them such that they cannot escape with even their dignity. These people were born into a sort of negative equity, discriminated against and indebted with no chance of self improvement, and carrying the knowledge that this will be the legacy they pass to their children. And yet their kindness and warmth towards me is something that puts my day to day actions and petty concerns to shame.

It takes a lot leave your home – and the poor sods paying their life’s savings to chance a crossing in a leaky, overloaded boat or hanging to the underside of a Eurostar have probably already lost more to terror than most of us can feasibly contemplate. And I don’t just mean people who have been bombed out of their homes – I mean people whose lives are so utterly grindingly poor and miserable that they see no choice but to flee. We often brand these people ‘economic’ migrants, suggesting that the decision to try and improve their pathetic lot smacks somehow of greed. Huh.

I am truly repelled by the aspirant rich and super-rich, the top rate tax payers and the oligarchs who threaten to remove their favour from this country. I say take your favour and stick it up your ****, but only after taking your head out first so you can see what a mess a culture of grabbing entitlement is causing. You’re breaking my country, so **** off. I’ll even come round and help you pack.

When I was 23 I worked at Westminster for an MP. This did not lead me to feel that things could easily be made better, but things must change. Self regarding politicians need to stop scheming, learn how to give an honest answer to a searching question and develop beneficial policies that have a life beyond winning votes at the end of a parliamentary term. Successive governments also need to go beyond promises of developing ethical foreign policies and stop selling arms to rich tyrants. The only brightness I see in the darkness of institutionalized complacency is Jeremy Corbyn. I hope with all my heart that he becomes our next prime minister. I don’t give a **** whether or not he is willing to use the bomb – I probably won’t be around to complain if he didn’t. Still nice to have it isn’t it. Yeah.

I live in the third wealthiest country in the world apparently, but it doesn’t feel like that. It quite often feels mean – and bitter with it. Don’t get me wrong I know there are plenty of people struggling to make ends meet, but there really is enough to go round. If I hear one more wealthy, old ******* pensioner telling me that “this country’s going to the dogs” I may ditch my pacifism.

We don’t need to wait for another terror attack to show heroism and compassion. Stand up for those who can’t fight for themselves and try to be pleasant.

Well anyway, sorry about that. I feel better now though.

Yup agree, when the top 5% have all the wealth, and only look after themselves, we will be stuck in this cycle.

Redistribution of wealth is the answer, capitalism is fundamentally flawed as we are now realising, it’s only a matter of time before that house of cards collapses.
But so is socialism /communism.

I honestly don’t have an answer.

It feels good to vent on here occasionally. It’s equally nice to read a good venting. I agree with pretty much everything you’ve written OP, but like mattyfez, I have no answers.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Curious to hear more about your experiences working for an MP btw.

Sir,

I really do like the cut of your jib.

That’s a rant i can relate to.
I hope for a better future for everyone but just can’t see it at the moment.
Not going to stop trying though