This image was of the Guardian website this morning:
The message is clear, as is the juxtaposition: this is a government incapacitated by allegations of tax abuse, abuse and unethical conduct.
I know a great many deeply ethical people. A few of them are politicians. The question is, why does the Venn diagram that contains the overlap between these two groups so small? And why is it that the Tories have such a problem with this?
Could it be that believing that the pursuit of personal wealth is the ultimate objective in life and the pursuit of power over others through securing political power are aims that are incompatible if the objective is transparent, open, accountable and honest government? Are the Tories ever fit for office as a result of a basic flaw in their ethos, in other words?
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The Tories have always considered themselves, ‘the natural party for government’.
Which rather begs the question, why have they always been so terribly bad at it?
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“UK climate minister received donations from fuel and aviation companies”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/26/uk-climate-minister-received-donations-fuel-aviation-companies
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‘Are the Tories ever fit for office as a result of a basic flaw in their ethos, in other words?’
No.
They only got in in 2010 because their mates in the banking sector blew up the world in 2008 because instead of using the trust that politicians had imbued them with constructively, they let their greed get the upper hand.
The British public took out their frustration on New Labour and ushered in one of the cruellest, most frustrated, corrupt, vengeful and self interested political machines in the western democracy.
I think a lot of Tories have never forgiven the British (Brutish?) public for having the temerity to vote Labour in, in 1997. That’s why they’ve been so gleeful in their destruction of the state.
What has also become clear is from the ‘rule takers’ trope that emerged from BREXIT. The Tories – to a woman – do not see themselves as rule takers but rule breakers. Everything for them is an opportunity devoid of any principle but to enhance their position and that of their back seat driving supporters and funders.
My life and that of my family has been blighted by the Tories since 2010. And that simple word ‘blight’ is what the modern Tories are.
A blight. They spoil everything they touch.
On my side of the fence, there is no compromise or understanding on my part. They are my sworn enemy.
I know it’s boring to repeat once more BUT if the Labour party in 97 had decent people in the executive that really had intelligence and a social conscience the UK would be a totally different country and I wouldn’t be living in France today. They didn’t, it was controlled by a public schoolboy who was never a Socialist or Social Democrat and a sidekick who was an economic retard: examples – selling gold at the lowest price in 20 years, ‘a light touch’ for the corrupt cowboys in the City of London and the insanity of PFI to name but a few things he was an active part of.
For New Labour read – New Tories culminating today in a BTL lawyer who lined his pockets as a barrister and woud’nt know what real principles were if they came up and smacked him in the teeth.
NO!
What do you mean, Clive, by ‘NO’?
See the question in the post
14 WAYS TO DESCRIBE A CONSERVATIVE
Considering the attributes of being a Conservative
Is it not extraordinary,
They all end in the word TORY
DilaTORY ——— Admiration of a government that
is chaotic
BigaTORY ——— A tendency to be unreasonably
prejudiced and intolerant
PredaTORY —— For oneself at the expense of the
poor
DeregulaTORY —Change the rules to their
advantage, and for the advantage
of friends in the City of London
DiscriminaTORY – A hate of outsiders
AdulTORY ——— Love of a former leader who cheats
on his wives
SupposiTORY — Up each others arses
LavaTORY ———Out of the EU flushing away the
economy
ExaggeraTORY —To the point of lying
CremaTORY —— Where many sent by bad decisions
RackeTORY —— Happy to allow corrupt politicians
PurgaTORY —— Where we are now
DefamaTORY — Of those against them
InvenTORY —— Happy to tolerate lies
(excuse the odd poetic licence in spelling)
Excused
Brilliant. I wish I had thought of this.
Obligatory reading before voting Tory.
David, you mist one of their most popular,
LitigaTory :- Relating to, or inclined towards litigation .
Another one:-
InflammaTORY
Ensuring the whole country goes up in flames
Tory governments are always incompetent because fundamentally Tories believe that they are the country.
Their fitness to rule not having anything to do with their ability, intelligence, decision making, knowledge or experience, but rather their ownership of the majority of the countries assets and their family connections.
As a social class they suffer from the all too common tragic mistake that their wealth and power is the result of talent and enterprise rather than the reality of the laws and economy of this country rigged in their favour.
At a tea and biscuits reception for some minor dignitary I heard the Tory, female, County Council Chair of Education sum up this view.
Talking to a bunch of Tory chums about the youngsters at a local FE colleague, I overheard her say “They are never really going to amount to much, they just don’t have it in them. It’s not in their blood.”
As it happened I had sat on a committee with this woman and her only visible characteristics were that she appeared thick, ignorant and always convinced that she was right. Exactly the same as the Tory members that elected Johnson and Truss.
Eugenicism is far too alive and well
You might add that a Conservative government is very happy to collude with a Russian government whom they are supposed to be sanctioned and allow a City of London law firm to prosecute a British journalist for exposing Tory’s support of a Russin oligarch linked to the Wagner mercenary unit fighting against Ukraine for Russia. It beggars belief, or perhaps not, with their record completely ignoring their own ministerial codes, ethical policies, and whatnot. Don’t mention the Electoral Commission, which the Tories want to disband for investigating Russin funds going to the Brexit campaign.
The output of the Tories fascist practice is indeed encouraging people to look at social problems in a eugenic way.
An example.
At a management meeting the other day in my housing org’, we were having to identify yet more savings.
The new senior manager brought up the issue that we were doing too much and leaving ourselves vulnerable to the perception that we were failing.
All that followed on from that, were discussions about our tenants – some of the most vulnerable and socially/economically disadvantaged people in the town.
There was a lot of emphasis on the personal failings of our tenants and their inability to help themselves. They were seen as ‘too needy’.
We totally ignored the fact that we had been encouraged by governments over the years to see them as customers – people who could take their custom elsewhere when in fact in truth they have always been a captive audience – social housing is the housing of last resort – these people have no where else to go.
All we had to do apparently was give them nice warm, well managed homes.
It did not seem to matter that they would not be able to heat this well manged bricks and mortar, feed themselves or that they could be abused and raped and have mental health problems in it as long as the bricks and mortar was top notch!!
I nearly denounced the whole thing and walked out. I did not want to be there. There were some very highly paid people in that room, moaning about the people they should have been looking after. I wanted to tell them all to fuck off and go and get highly paid delivering services to people they actually respected and liked.
I wonder how many other public services have developed this sort of eugenic outlook? I hear to too often now at work.
But I’m always amazed how little the Tories are brought up in these conversations and how often the conversation turns to our service users as the problem?
The British people seem to have been turned into the ‘Brutish’ people.
It could very well be you know that the Tories have won. I think my deepest fears have already been realised and now ANYTHING is possible, no matter how depraved.
As for me, I’m tarting up my CV with a heavy heart.
I think their record should speak for themselves:
1. Crashed the economy
2. Highest interest rate in 32 years
3. Highest inflation rate in 40 years
4. Highest tax burden in 70 years.
5. Lowest Sterling/US Dollar rate in 50 years
6. Truss: “the most economical right-wing major party
in the developed world” (Financial Times)
7. Cut taxes to the richest in society, but ignored:
8. Two million more food bank users
9. PM partied during COVID as people died alone
10. Highest energy costs in Europe
11. Created Private Finance Initiatives schemes that have taken at least £250-billion from public services
12. Privatised the NHS
Again, I’ve been watching the BBC4 documentary ‘The U.S. & the Holocaust’ and there is this quote from Benjamin Ferencz who was one of the prosecutors at the Nuremberg trials as he summed up his case against the SS Einstatzgruppen he was prosecuting:
“These defendants wrote the blackest page in human history.
Life was their toy, and death was their tool.
If these men be immune, then the law has lost its meaning and we must all live in fear”.
Some may say that I go too far, but this quote – considering 12 years of austerity – seems apt to me in describing our tormentors in the Tory party who are far from immune.
Whether by cutting benefits to vulnerable people, not being prepared for a pandemic or wilfully making the NHS fail, the Tories have blood on their hands and are playing in the same ball park as the Nazis in my view.
The only reason we don’t have concentration camps is because they’re too mean to build them.