Personally I am feeling a nausea in my tummy that has come on as I have watched events unfold this evening. I am fearing the uncertainty and am trying to hold onto a common sense approach or watching and waiting for what is ACTUALLY going to happen instead of what I FEAR will happen.
The worry to me is about the tax credits system going and what they will put in its place. Are they going to victimise those who are genuinely out of work and cannot now get a meaningful job because of health, age, too old to retrain, etc. ? I myself have disabled tax credits, which meant I could work with my disability and still recieve a fare wage for my employ, which has helped me considerably to manage to keep that job. I also fear for many of my clients (I work in social/community care) who are already under severe stress from financial cutbacks in services. I fear they will 'target' the wrong ones and pick on the easy victims. Any reform to the system must be humane but I fear it may not be given what has been happening recently.
We will will have to wait and see. The press with be second guessing what is going to be done and, until it is actually set in stone, I am telling myself not to worry about imaginings. I am telling my clients not to worry about imaginings. Maybe it will get better? Experience tells me probably not but who knows?
I also feel sad for Gordon Brown. Despite his many mistakes I find no place in my heart to dislike him. I believe he has a quiet dignity and at heart is a good man. Maybe his mistake is that he does not have that 'killer instinct' so many top politicians have.
So I will try not to judge just now and not to worry. Let us see what this new two headed brush sweeps like and hope that it is a fair brush with humane intentions