Saturday 20 May 2023

Tories On Way Down

The early 2010's in the UK was a very good time to be a Conservative, especially if you were an unscrupulous douchebag, and especially if you were one whose sole desire in life was to grab what you could and to hell with everyone else and over the last 14 years boy have the Political right been filling their ideological boots.  
David Cameron was all about slashing and burning as many public services as he could then Brexit came along and he tootled off to leave Theresa May and her policy of hostile environment for foreigners which Boris Johnson was happy to expand upon until Coronovirus came along and then he was too busy partying while telling us not to until his perpetual lying and cheating caught up with him and Liz Truss came along and within 44 days tanked the economy and was removed to be replaced with the current guy who got the job by default as he was the least worse of a bad bunch.
That's a quick run down of the last 14 years but as the recent local elections have shown, the Conservatives are not only due a slapdown but there are real fears that they could be out of power for decades so in that endearing way the right wing have, they have shifted even further to the extreme right which is why when Rishi Sunak jetted out of the country, all the right wing crackpots decided it was time to step forward to show their compassionate and caring side.   
It was not so much the tail wagging the dog but the fleas running the kennel as first up was Backbench tory MP Miriam Cates who claimed that a culture of Marxism in schools was destroying children’s souls and then Home Secretary Suella Braverman who insisted that she was all about cutting immigration so won't she be surprised this week when the figures come out that the legal immigration figures approved by her own department are at a record high.
Jacob Rees-Mogg is always good for a giggle and when Brexit secretary responsible for explaining the benefits of Brexit came up with 0 and he didn't disappoint as he admitted that the controversial voter ID law was a Tory attempt to manipulate the Labour vote down but resulted in his own side losing votes
as it was Conservative voters who were turned away without the proper photo id.
Tory MP Danny Kruger then attacked the LGBTQ+ Community by claiming that the only possible basis for a safe and successful society was for a family with both a mother and father while Anne Widdecombe, when asked about a family who said they could no longer afford to eat cheese due to the cost of living crisis, replied that families should no longer expect to be able to afford cheese sandwiches.
As the row over sewage being dumped in Britain’s waterways continues to rage, former cabinet minister Damian Green declared that when he was a boy, it was acceptable to go swimming in human effluent while Truss went on TV to rant about the UK-based Confucius Centres teaching pupils the Chinese language as China is a threat to the west.
More moderate Tories have been seen shaking their heads and apologising for their more over excitable colleagues and urging Rishi to sort them out and get his act together but with what now seems an unassailable lead for the Labour Party, Keir Starmer is cleverly living by the Napoleon quote that you never interupt your opponent when they are making a mistake and the Tories fighting like cats in a sack is the most fun they have given us over the past 14 miserable and disruptive years so let them carry on, it's great to watch them sink so very low. 

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