Thread by @RoadsideMum

I didn't sleep last night and I haven't settled yet tonight either.

I'm fairly sad for me about the #UniversalCredit cut, but the weight of the sadness for others is vast.

It's similar to getting the news someone you know is terminally ill.

Deaths are coming. 100% sure.

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It'll be lonely middle age men, isolated from their last few pleasures in life, by a whacking cut in their income and a whacking rise in their essential bills all at once.

Someone's brother. Someone's Dad.

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It'll be keyworkers, subsumed in months of grinding, constant stress, no longer able to handle the abuse on the petrol station forecourts, or the snappy managers, as burried in it all as they are, and it'll be that last fucking Starbucks they were 30p short for that'll do it.

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It'll be kids, hardly old enough to be out alone, because when the Netflix stops and the internet won't reset, and the fuck off to the park, with their "mates", anywhere to not be indoors, they'll find the drugs are free, right until you crave them, then the pricing starts.

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It'll be Mothers who can't fight back the black dog of the endless fucking blame, spite and scorn, and clear the medicine cabinet one night, when it's Daddy's weekend for the kids.

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Old ladies without a reliable care worker, giving up, and not making it out of hospital this time, demoralised and lost.

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I've seen it. I've been the stranger you get, when you reach out for someone.

The sadness. The fatigue. The raw, jagged pain. When where you are isn't bearable, you'll be frantic, looking for an escape, and when you don't find one, because the exits are being scrubbed out?

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It's not if there'd be a rise in the suicide rate, there will. It's not if unnecessary pain is coming, it's how much. It's not whether we lose people, it's who, how long they hold out and in what state of misery.

Today my country cut more than benefits. We cut eachother.

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Electricity & gas continue to rocket, petrol is bordering on a swearword, unemployment is huge and whole industries are still barely working. Schools strain to even open and hospitals can neither fill their cupboards nor empty their ambulances.

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And against a backdrop of late season sunshine, and professional sandwiches, the richest man ever to enter parliament, smiled, as he ripped the light from the lives of 5.5 million of our most vulnerable friends and neighbours.

I'm so sorry. 😔💔

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Right... I've slept and the fightback starts here. I can't fix it all, but I can do something, however small!

This is the Christmas toy list for the 300 kids @HumansMCR will be feeding this year. Looking for 300 toys. Can you help by sharing or donating?

https://twitter.com/RoadsideMum/status/1446175758821568520?t=14VOnAxHPh5MqE11eZspNQ&s=19