77 year olds suicide in front of Greek parliament

I have just been watching the news where the Greek general election has been reported. The most eye catching part of that report was the length of the queues for the soup kitchen and the tragic story of a 77 year old pensioner who committed suicide by shooting himself outside the Greek parliament building. His daughter said he wrote in a suicide letter that he would rather die than live without being able to feed himself. This a terrible indictment on modern day capitalism and the savage way it is treating the continents (our own country included) poor and destitute.

How a man who managed to survive the tyranny of the Nazis during world war II, failed to survive the tyranny of the capitalists during the credit crunch and after of the 21st century, says it all about how life is for the working class of our once proud continent. I do hope every right wing pro capitalist politician across Europe and every banker across the world who truly caused this disgrace chokes on their breakfast this morning as they watch this story. Although somehow I seriously doubt it.

In our own land the poor are being penalised for the mistakes of a failed political system. People queuing up for free food, unable to feed their children. Given a choice of either to eat or to heat their homes during the winter SICK SICK SICK!

Sadly right now our politicians are doing nothing about it. The Tories you expect to squeeze the poor that they have always done, that they will always do. It's where Labour are going wrong that angers me. We have a Labour leader harping on about the squeezed middle well hold on Ed, yes the middle class are also suffering  during this time of austerity but what about those in the financial bracket below them namely the poor? There are more of us, suffering in a much harsher way but once again to quote Orwell in 1984 " the proles don't count."

John Bercow the speaker of the house of commons was correct when talking about voter apathy during this weeks council elections. He said " the people think there is no difference between the parties." This is true, when I ask my workmates why they were not voting during the local elections they all gave the same answer, " they are all the same."

So here's my own little message for Ed and his fellow policy makers in the Labour party. " If you want to get back into power with a huge vote behind you try looking left rather than right. Go on, just try it !
You never know you may well find people giving you their vote, rather than going down the road you are currently set on. The British voting public are at present seeing you as pink Tories, Blair tried that and he is hated by the working class and yes it does go deeper, much deeper than just the Iraq war.

As a finishing note good luck to Monsieur Hollande and his Socialist party during todays French Presidential elections. Also here's hoping the left wing in Greece do well in their general election today. Surely we cannot put up with the disgrace of a 77 year old man killing himself due to the rich continuing to persecute both him and his class in that beautiful ancient country. What would Socrates have thought ???