Tories Still The Nasty Party

If you thought that Conservative MP's actually cheering that they had successfully blocked a pay-rise cap for NHS nurses and firefighters was a reminder of why they are called the nasty party, then this week they reminded us again when they shamefully voted against giving free school dinners for those school children at risk of going hungry over the half-term break due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Just to make sure that the point had been driven home that the Conservatives didn't particularly care, Selaine Saxby, who is Tory MP for North Devon posted a comment on Facebook after dozens of organisations offered to help, saying 'I am delighted our local businesses have bounced back so much after lock-down they are able to give away food for free, and very much hope they will not be seeking any further government support'.
Her post has since been deleted and she has since said that she deeply regrets any offence which may have been caused as did the Tory MP for Mansfield, Ben Bradley, who tweeted that vouchers would end up being given to 'crack dens and brothels'.
In the last election large swathes of the North of England turned their backs on their traditional Labour Party candidates and voted for Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party giving them a huge majority but they might be regretting that now as the Tories are scramble with another shaming PR disaster that if the government of the 6th Richest global nation won’t feed vulnerable kids, then ordinary people will do it.
Even Nigel Farage, possibly one of the most disliked right-wing politicians in Britain, called the government 'mean' and asked 'why they were able to subsidise money for the Eat Out to Help Out scheme but can't help hungry children', and that's coming from the absurd Nigel Farage!!
Appears that feeding hungry children is very low down on this particular Government's list of give-a-tosses, and that's reprehensible but even worse, not unexpected from Boris Johnson and his well deservedly named nasty party.