Tom's piece on the Coalition from Summer 2012, has anything changed?

NB. This piece was originally written in April 2012, I am just sharing this for your benefit, and to reflect on how far we, as a country, has come.

If the coalition were a marriage (which it probably is), it would be signing them divorce papers rather soon. Having been together for only two years, the cracks in the relationship today are more visible than ever. Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg appear to have hit a brick wall in their progress to save Britain and with us unruly peasants getting poorer by the day, the government is on the brink – a ticking time bomb within the walls of the commons for the once “united” coalition. We all know the Tory-dems have failed badly and we all know the end is on the horizon.

As we watch the right honourable gentlemen in Cameron and Clegg broaden the gap between the rich and ourselves, we can’t help but feel an overwhelming disengagement from politics today. I’m sure I speak for the masses, when I say I’d rather pay the pasty tax than dine with the PM himself (it would be a hell of lot cheaper). The power hungry toffs in government have yet again failed to deliver the goods we rightly ordered and with the budget giving the rich a break, we as the poorer members of society are left feeling unconvinced and unhappy.

Therefore, it is correct to say that David Cameron and Nick Clegg are seen to be out of touch with Britain today – both its culture and its people. They begin by crushing our National Health System, taxing our Grandparents and now making us pay more when we have less. We see our voices dismissed and not heard. Our democratic state is failing, the electorates are unrepresented and this current government is wearing blinkers and we need to do something about it. We are victims in our own homes as a double dip recession appears to be all but certain. Our alienated population stands alone without support and assistance from the Government, it is as if the Coalition has opted for the lift and we are left helplessly alone with the stairs to climb. We merely possess little in what the PM looks for, in terms of wealth and in terms of political know how; Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg seek one thing and one thing only – to keep their pals at home rich. David himself, attempted to seek brownie points when he claimed he last had a pasty in Leeds’ Train Station. The attempt failed miserably, you’re not one of us David, see you’re the “super-race”, and we’re merely the “human race”. I can’t help but think that anything DC does will end up making the public feel more disengaged from him and his Tory-Dems.

As we see more absurd proposals put in place, the UK coalition government lacks our trust (something they need for the next general election). A renewed anger comes from us in that the Tory-Dems plan to snoop on our “private” emails.  The government are to gain powers in Her Majesty’s speech to check all calls, emails, texts, Skype and website visits we make – Big Brother is watching us (and listening to and monitoring). Don’t get us wrong, we are all up for national security and all that jazz, but really? This we see is to be Mr Cameron’s dictatorship in the making, therefore pushing aside Mr Clegg and his equality and human rights campaigns; we are left puzzled to how this coalition is still afloat. Soon we will be adopting both China’s and Iran’s principles, soon we won’t be allowed to use the internet and soon we will be constantly tagged. It wasn’t too long ago since the Tories, wanted to scrap our Human Rights Act in which Mr Clegg wasn’t best pleased. Theresa May claimed it was ‘causing too many problems’, this alone indicates that the Tories seek both order and authority through whatever seems possible. The welfare of the population may suffer yet the power hungry members of parliament seek nothing more than that. If the Conservative backbenchers persist in wanting to tear up the European Convention on Human Rights, then we can foresee a time when the Lib Dems would be extremely uncomfortable in government – a threat to the coalition splashed on the front pages. Not so good Mr Cameron.

As the squeeze gets tighter on the coalition, it also has an even tighter hold of our pockets. The government simply do little to help us live but seek security in the ‘green environment’.  Government plans for greener homes have failed, falling short of proposed household savings. The Coalition are oblivious to what is going on around them, world stock markets down day after day and our Prime Minister suggests the solar panel will save us. The wrong thing to do at the wrong time David, as the most responsible man in British politics we cannot even look to our Prime Minister in such difficult circumstances. The Tories along with the Lib Democrats have forgotten about the British people, what we want and what we deserve.

Under such a climate, the UK coalition cannot last any longer; it is well past its best before date. The British public did not ask nor want such a ponsy, toff-filled, stuck up government. They are destroying what we once had, the NHS, the economy and most of all Britshness. The longer the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are in power, the worse it will get. As British citizens, we ask for help, assistance and advice in such hard economic times. We are left unemployed, penniless and down beat. We’ve have had enough, enough of the Toffs and enough of the Coalition. It’s not working and frankly never will. We seek security and representation and in these current times of despair and anxiety, we simply acknowledge neither.