In February, I posted a blog about this being the Final Season of the Tories or words to that effect, because back in February, under Boris and with things starting to go wrong from almost every direction. At the time, the Tories looked rudderless, directionless and a little bored with being in power and yet now six months on under Rishi Sunak, the third leader of the UK in roughly the same time, it's just got worse and when the Tories aren't absent they do things that make the average person reel in horror.
The racist rhetoric, the lack of empathy, no help in a cost of living crisis, allowing corporations to strip mine once nationalised industries or defile the countryside and rivers. The latest is Robert Jenrick having a cartoon mural painted over in a children's asylum centre in Kent because they need to realise this is a law enforcement establishment and not a creche. What a heartless bastard! Yet, these low level snake shit salesmen do this almost on a monthly basis - stop benefits rises, stop free school meals for the poor, stop benefits, stop the boats, stop foreigners, stop protests, stop anything that means they're not paying money to the poor and happily give it to the rich, who hoard it and force interest rates up so high that thousands of people, already facing huge costs now have seen their mortgages increase almost double in some cases.
Just what are this mob doing? And why are they so uninterested and callous? What makes them think that the way forward is through division, racism and corruption? Sunak is always absent and when he isn't he says things that can be interpreted in a number of evil ways. There's a big bunch of Tory MPs who think the country needs to be more racist and prevent foreign care workers from wiping the old and disabled bottoms because some feckless 18 year old unemployed kid from Wisbech will do it or won't get any benefits - the perfect storm of disregarding safeguarding.
We have shit roads, dead rivers, more food banks than Big Mac outlets, rotting schools, rotting rented accommodation, the NHS on its knees, businesses going under because of lack of staff because locals won't do the jobs. Then there's the climate crisis and we decided not to spend the £11.2bn we pledged to it - not only does that infuriate the rest of the world it makes us look like liars and not Statesmen. I can list so many things that the Tories have fucked up since 2010 it makes depressing reading considering they're constantly voted in despite the destruction they bring; it's madness.
What we're witnessing is a dereliction of duty. They have given up. Loads of MPs are standing down at the end of this parliament - some are going because they know they're going to lose their own seats, some because they feel Parliament is now a toxic environment with undercurrents of sexism, misogyny, nepotism and corruption and to all the people who say 'what else can they do' or 'it's not their fault' - these scumbags gave away £40bn at the start of the pandemic on shit PPE, their mates and let's not forget the parties and the One Rule For Them But Not For Us lifestyle. They had the money to fix everything but they pissed it up a wall.
Just for parity - Keir Starmer and his cadre of Deep Blue Labourites have done so many policy U turns in the last year they sound like they're now selling themselves as Tory Lite just to attract the votes of about 12% of the population who are racist and want the country to suffer as much as possible by not blaming Brexit. Labour has no progressive ideas any more, they just offer Not The Tories.
Politics is fucked. No one seems to be able to do any good because of the scandals, corruption, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Cancel Culture - no one is doing anything because they're too busy obsessing over each other. Mhairi Black - at 28 - is quitting her SNP seat because she's had enough of the horrible atmosphere and hateful vibes parliament spews out. We're losing the good as well as the bad and I suppose we're going to have a much different parliament after the next General Election. This might be good or it might be an influx of new serial politicians who are there for their own benefits before those of the people who voted them in.
We need a party to win the election and then say everything needs reforming; that parliament and the way it is run needs overhauling; that they need an independent ombudsman to police the MPs; they need to stamp out second jobs and lobbying. Someone needs to get into power and change the way we do and participate with politics. We need the education system overhauled with more emphasis on years 9 thru 11 about life and how to live it and how to understand how we fit into society and how others do as well. We also need proper leadership for the people.
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