in which Bludgeon is on the telly and Disasterdly kicks the cripples

Boris The Bludgeon on East Enders.

Peggy Mitchell: Ooo, aren't you the Mayor of London, I've been looking everywhere for you.
Bludgeon: Err-Umm-Err-Umm-Err-Umm-Err-Umm
Peggy Mitchell: I'm in local politics you know, there are lots of things I'd like to discuss with you.
Bludgeon: Err-Umm-Err-Umm-Err-Umm-Err-Umm
Peggy Mitchell: I have some ideas about developing the East End.
Bludgeon: (robotically) I-am-always-willing-to-discuss-London-issues-with-ordinary people. Please-contact-me-at-the-office-and-I-will-be-pleased-to-talk-two-you. I-am-off-duty-now.
Peggy Mitchell: One of the things I wanted to talk about was the way you are starting to question part of the London 2010 plan which was ratified by the Olympic Committee, might your interference at this stage not have implications for the games as a whole.
Bludgeon: la la la-Dum Dum Dum-Tra la la.
Peggy Mitchell: We are very worried about global warming. Why did you scrap the plans to extend the congestion charging zone? And most of us around here use the bus rather than cars, why are you scrapping larger, more fuel-efficient, bendy buses and bringing back the smaller, less fuel efficient, less safe, Routemaster buses?
Bludgeon: la la la-Dum Dum Dum-Tra la la- la la la-Dum Dum Dum-Tra la la.
Peggy Mitchell: Well well, would you believe it, the Mayor of London drinking in my pub, I am so lucky.

Disasterdly David looks after his "posh chums".

Yesterday was bash a cripple day as Disasterdly informed the world of his plans to bully the infirm and disabled.
Having targeted immigrants and single mothers during previous election campaigns the Nazi, Oops, sorry, the Conservative party have obviously decided that there are now enough members of both of those minority groups to have an effect on the outcome of a general election and so in order to please the Nazi, oops sorry, extreme right wing members of the party they have decided to target the group that the Nazis, yes, the Nazis, thought it would be okay to exterminate. By manipulating Darwin’s concept of ‘Eugenics’ the Nazi’s firstly compulsorily sterilised, and then gassed 250,000 people in the name of “the prevention of ‘hereditary diseased offspring’. It is a little known fact that the sweet old Tory hero, Winston Churchill, and his chums, supported the Nazi sterilisation program at the time, writing to British Prime Minister Asquith, asking him to advocate sterilisation of the “feeble minded.” The Americans started it all off, beginning in 1907, in the name of “The Preservation of Human Quality”. They sterilised over 60,000 between 1907 and 1970, yes, 1970.

So, in another society just 50 years ago Disasterdly’s son would have been murdered and his wife would have been sterilised. For someone who studied history at university he hasn’t learned much has he?

For those of us old enough to have lived through previous Tory government's it is no surprise to learn today that in order to resolve financial problems caused by some of the wealthiest members of our society, Disasterdly has decided to reduce benefits, tax credits, and other financial assistance which benefits the lower middle and the working classes.
No mention here of plans to tax this country's high earners, or to plug the loopholes that allow wealthy foreigners to both live in, and to benefit from this country's facilities, for the payment of very little tax.
Those of us old enough to have lived through previous Tory government's are also nearer to retirement. For many in this middle-class dominated society the thought of being able to continue working up until the age of 66 will come as ratification of some idea they may have already been cultivating.

However, for those who carry out the arduous, or the repetitive, or the physically challenging roles which provide the infrastructure and the tools on which the middle-class rely, and who will have been carrying out those roles since they were 16 years old (in some cases 15 years old), and for whom retirement is something to look forward to, this additional year will feel like a jail sentence.

The average bus driver, refuse collector, Carpenter, bricklayer, etc, etc, will have worked for at least five years more than those they support who earn salaries several times greater than their own wages. Those they support will retire with much more favourable conditions as well.
Many of those of us who have laboured in those physically demanding support industries are now infirm, unwell, or disabled as a consequence. I am sure that Disasterdly and his posh mates will be rubbing their hands at the prospect of now having two opportunities to bully us and remind us of our place in society, our place among the “insane, the blind, the deaf, the prisoners and the paupers”, the groups identified as targets for sterilisation by Churchill, his chums, and the entire USA government.

Influences:
“Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Born Equal?”  BBC Two: 12th March 2009:  Exec Producer Anne Laking: Series Producer Chris Granlund:  Produced & Directed Kate Bartlett: Open University/BBC 2009.