Mhairi Black: Top politicians at Westminster are so out of touch it's scary

The doors have now closed for parliamentary business in the House of Commons for recess as people get prepared for a cruel winter of cuts that will have been completely self-inflicted by the callous bunch of blowhards who are running the UK.

Anyone who has ever received benefits such as Universal Credit will know how much the £20 cut due on October 6 will actually impact people. Meanwhile, the people making the decisions are incredibly financially comfortable. People such as Jacob Rees-Mogg, with a reported wealth of between £50-£150 million, will never sit in front of a job adviser while desperate for some money so he can eat.

The very imminent cut to Universal Credit is disgraceful, and it is a cut, no matter how many times the Tories try to spin it otherwise. We are currently experiencing the biggest public health crisis in modern times but it is absolutely vital for the Tories that those on the lowest incomes get chucked further down the ladder. How Conservative.

It is people who have genuinely had to choose between heating their home and heating something up in the oven that will be impacted by energy price hikes, not Boris Johnson.

Right on cue he will tell you everything is fine and Brexit is the best way forward for good old Great Britain. That’s it folks, that was and is Boris Johnson’s ace up his sleeve. Sadly many folk bought the xenophobic Brexit vision Johnson was selling, only to find that now they can’t get bread at the shops for their gammon sandwiches.

It is estimated that thousands of people across Scotland are about to be cut off from furlough payments, meaning even more people are about to fall into poverty in this country.

Thousands of people have been excluded from any support at all since last March when the pandemic hit, finding themselves at the mercy of the Department for Work and Pension. Economic forecast after economic forecast is telling us that multi-millionaire Chancellor Rishi Sunak is no different to his Tory predecessors.

The UK Government wants to “level up” the UK but the problem with that is that it is meaningless.

If we are going to level up the UK then let’s start by raising wages and showing appreciation for the lowest earners who have kept us going throughout the last 18 months of this pandemic.

Let’s “level up” the cleaners and the supermarket workers instead of slamming them with cuts and poverty measures and telling them to work harder.

I could write a 12,000-word essay about the particular mess of things the UK Government has created over the last 18 months but I will leave the long, tedious compositions to Sir Keir Starmer, the chocolate teapot of UK politics.

People don’t need a 10-point plan in a dissertation, they need a leader of the opposition. Boris Johnson has been on the news almost every day now for a good two years spouting absolute mince, stumbling over himself and making no sense on really vital issues.

Where is Keir Starmer during all of this? I am not sure the increasing number of food bank users will have been eagerly downloading Starmer’s essay for some enlightenment on their current situation.

The Prime Minister and his counterpart are so ill-informed and out of sync with the average voter it is frightening.

It is no better in Holyrood, with branch office puppets Douglas Ross and Anas Sarwar looking more desperate and out of their depth as the weeks pass in the new Holyrood term.

The petty point-scoring isn’t working, people see through it, and both Scottish Labour and the Scottish Conservatives are becoming less relevant than their UK overlords.

So as this dying Union continues to crumble around us we need to stay in touch with the voters in Scotland ourselves.

We must continue highlighting the shortcomings of the British government, and make clear that a better Scotland is possible, but it will only happen if people choose it.