The Fear of Austerity.

Recently, I read of a Conservative MP saying that another country was under a tyranny and I thought of the above quote of Thomas Jefferson, and got to thinking that the UK's Government as being more about the tyranny of the rich upon the poor, rather than a Government of the people.

Austerity is not a condition but a policy and this Government is creating fear with its attacks upon workers. 

Criminal Justice workers are living in fear.

The purpose of the sector is to reduce crime and re-offending, promote confidence in the criminal justice system, protect people and contribute to the reduction and fear of crime, and support the administration of justice.

How Can they promote confidence in the Criminal Justice System when the policy of Austerity is in danger of demolishing the very fabric of all it represents.

Minster Chris Grayling never seems to let up on the whole Criminal Justice System. Probation Officers, Prison Officers, Barristers, Solicitors, Prosecutors.

MP Sadiq Khan said in stinging rebuke of this Government

 "a shocking picture" of how bad things have got in the criminal justice system over the past three years.He said: "David Cameron came to office in 2010 promising a rehabilitation revolution yet today this is in tatters, with the Inspectors confirming this a failure".“The government’s plans to recklessly privatise probation have been shredded", he said. "It’s time that Chris Grayling broke the habit of a lifetime, listened to the experts, and abandoned his dangerous and half-baked probation privatisation before he puts the public’s safety at risk".

NHS workers are living in fear

Thousands of nursing jobs have been lost and urgent action is needed to protect the NHS frontline from this Governments cuts.

David Cameron's general election pledge not to cut spending on the NHS has been broken.

David Cameron needs to be forcefully reminded that he has never been given the public’s permission to put the NHS up for sale.

Yet the NHS is under attack and this Government is creating fear in the ranks of Doctors, Nurses, Patients and the Public

The Unemployed are living in fear.

GuardianJournalist Patrick Butler writes about Welfare reform: 'A Tsunami of fear'. Debt, hunger, and stress emerge as key themes from the first phase of an ongoing study of the social impact of welfare reform

And one Respondent said my neighbourhood is like living in a Tsunami of fear' http://gu.com/p/3j23j/tw

Yesterday the Guardian has another interesting article called, “Welfare Cuts and What they Mean for (people)

The article is illuminates this fear by the story of Joe McPhillips who tried to take his own life when receiving not that his benefits were to stop, said later, "It is the benefit reform that's making me a lot worse, and then there's not the services available when I've been made that way. I feel insecure all the time. Constantly. It never goes away. It's a real feeling of dread." gu.com/p/3y944/tf

The Elderly and Disabled people  are living in fear.

This Government has taken the words “Home Alone” and turned them into a whole new meaning and policy for the elderly and the disabled.

Half a million elderly and disabled people denied care by Tory Lib Dem policies. theguardian.com/society/2013/d

Austerity in the UK is not the Government fearing its people, but many people fearing their Government and simply being left behind and demeaned.

As somebody has said 'Permanent Austerity is an admission that the recovery will not reach the majority.' 

What we need is a Government which will:

1. Stop cuts and halt privatisation.

 2. Tax the Fat Cat millionaires and tax shy corporations.

 3. Put the banks under democratic control, its not good them gambling our wealth.

 4. Invest in jobs, homes, public services and the environment.

 5. Move to the Local Community and away from Global Corporations.

Please sign this Petition. Dont ignore evidence that dismantling the Probation Trust puts the Public at Risk. The Probation Service has served this country well.