I was down in the Job Centre the other day, looking for er...jobs (ha, fat chance down here in TerribleTorquay) as the one I had is now no longer...and was amazed to see all the Big Blokes who looked liked Bouncers standing round, in uniform, watching everyone...

I got talking to the chap I had an interview with, a really nice man, about my age, mid-50s..and I was asking him why so many threatening looking oiks abounded in a Job Centre, making folks feel somewhat intimidated.

He explained that 'the folks' are getting more and more angry..and indeed there'd been one such chappie earlier on who'd been on the way to losing it because he'd heard he could get financial help with an Anger Management Course....and on finding he couldn't, he got er..a little angry...

Well, before I knew it this man who was supposed to be interviewing me was pouring out his feelings to me instead, how his wages had been cut by 5% and frozen too, yet his bills kept going up and up and up..How so many people on Incapacity Benefit will have that taken away from them soo, Disability Living Allowance too, as 'The Doctors' dictate the vast majority of them are 'fit for work', when most of them aren't....

He fears for the future desperately, and all the staff are worried sick about what's about to happen when a flood of desperate people flow through THEIR doors, as the Job Centres are where they're all going to be directed to...

They know already that so many people can barely exist on the benefits they get, so it's not a big stretch of the imagination to realise the panic that will be about to set in shortly, nor the anger that's going to burst out all over the staff who the government have left to deal with this terrible situation.

Hence, the ever-increasing number of Burly Bouncer Boys in your local Job Centres, folks.

Of course, there are NO jobs for the luckless people to take, once they lose their benefits...but of course, Cammy and Cleggy, the public school educated, never wanted for a thing in me life, millionaires, don't give a fuck about that part...

I asked Mr. Job Centre if he thought 'The Doctors' would be fair and reasonable, and he just stared at me...shook his head sadly....and said that no, he felt the exact opposite...I told him about a lady on BBC News the other morning, she'd had a brain haemorrhage a few months back. She's struggling to get back to normal, having gone completely blind at the start, but gradually have a little sight returning, although she's now classified as Partially Sighted...and her right side is still numb, arm, hand, leg, all the way down...She can't claim Job Seeker's Allowance, as her job is being kept open for her because she WANTS to go back to work if she can....but now, they've deemed her 'fit for work' even though she can't bloody well SEE!! I mean??? WTF??      

Apparently, one of 'The Doctors' had asked her how many fingers he was holding up, and when she said she couldn't see, he got very aggressive with her and said "You MUST be able to see!!" ...She couldn't...just got distressed at being treated that way...

There's now been a whole movement to make Suspicion the name of the game, viewing anyone who is on Benefit as a Dirty Rotten Scumbag, basically....and whilst I know there ARE some folks who work the system, abuse it horribly, there are far more who don't and who'd give anything to be free of it, free to have their lives back, and a decent job to make a living from...

I'm sickened by what's happening in my country, really sickened....

In my last job I had a manager who was from Eastern Europe and I had to stand there listening to how racist this country was, what a terrible thing The Welfare State was, how they don't have that in her country, everyone having to work or starve..etc..etc..etc....I'm afraid that I told her we were actually the kindest, most tolerant, most anti-racist, and one of the most giving nations in the world, often to our own detriment, but I'd far rather have my country that way, than come from a country where no-one cared about anyone else and folks were just left to get on with things, no matter what terrible atrocities befell them...

She was so hard, so lacking in sympathy, empathy or compassion...and it worries me that there are plans afoot, heck, already now in action, to make my country become more and more like hers......and that frightens the Beejayzus out of me..and saddens me to the core of my being...

I know there'll be some people who'll come on here and start on about Scroungers and the Work Shy, but they are only a minority, albeit a bloody annoying minority. For the most part, as Mr. Job Centre was telling me, those who ARE on many of these benefits are desperately in need of them...

I can see most Job Centre Staff going off sick with stress shortly...and to be honest, who can blame them, because they have been shoved to the Frontline by mega rich and wealthy generals who have no thought for the 'cannon fodder' who are about to be mowed down by their horrendous decisions.......

I hate this Age of Suspicion, where all of us are viewed to be guilty until proved innocent..It's wrecking our way of life, wreaking havoc on communities, on friendships, on Trust...

....and without Trust in each other and of each other we are all pretty well doomed.