Tory Tax Lies and a Political System not fit for Purpose.

The Tax Credits fiasco has been a saga of lies, falsehoods and the dissemination of dishonest self-serving Tory propaganda that brings grown up politics into disrepute. When you have the grotesque spectacle of an unelected Tory peer in the form of Andrew Lloyd Webber, a man who goes out in public while wearing his face inside out, flying first class back from New York, so he can vote in favour of snatching food out of the mouths of disadvantaged children, along with another unelected peer, the bra seller Michelle Mone, a woman who herself seems happy to inflict financial penury and poverty upon 3 million low paid families, yet who grew up in the east end of Glasgow so you would have hoped she had some understanding of the difficulties of trying to raise families in difficult financial circumstances, you realise our current political system is not only corrupt but also morally bankrupt.

It would be slightly more acceptable if we did not have a quisling self-interested press that consistently fails to challenge the current government but instead serves the interests of a small cabal of media barons as well as a current group of lickspittle politicians whose only motives appear to be ideologue and punishing the poor and vulnerable. This is what it must feel like living under a military junta or in China.

It is an insult to the British public’s intelligence that the Tory’s have attempted to dress the defeat in the House of Lords up as a constitutional crisis rather than what it really is, which is a welfare issue which the Tory’s tried to drive through parliament, under the radar, as a Statutory instrument. The fact that they failed so abysmally, demonstrates the level of complacency and incompetence that resides deep within the government generally, and Cameron and Osborne specifically.

It is a concern that politicians are so detached from reality, and appear either wilfully ignorant of the carnage that taking thousands of pounds away from low paid families will cause or they are just cruel, uncaring and callous. When the Prime Ministers says he is ‘delighted’ when the policy was successfully put through the Commons and Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, says he is ‘comfortable’ with the cuts, I think we can all agree it is the latter. And let’s not forget, they are Tory’s after all, so it is in their DNA to punish the poor while featherbedding the lives of the rich and wealthy.

The Tory’s will claim the cuts are compensated by a reduction in fuel prices, an increase in the tax threshold and the increase in the minimum wage, which Osborne laughably calls the ‘national living wage’. But this is also dishonest, as he wilfully ignores the fact that people on low incomes generally cannot afford to run a car, are normally already earning below the tax threshold and the minimum wage of £9 per hour does not kick in for 4 years. What people are supposed to do until then I do not know, but I’m sure landlords, mortgage lenders, utility companies and banks will be very ‘understanding’ when it is explained to them why the rent or mortgage won’t be paid, or the electricity bill, and could they just hold on until 2019 when everything will be just super.

Returning to the issue of the so-called ‘constitutional crisis’ which the Tory definition seems to be “when people don’t vote the way we want”. It is amusing that the Prime Minister claims that the government was defeated by a bunch of ‘unelected representatives’ when only a few months ago he was happy to ennoble over 50 Tory peers, or as he calls them now, ‘unelected representatives’ and is at the moment throwing a massive hissy fit and threatening to ennoble another 150. That’s how politics works in Britain now. You just make a load of old school chums, party donors and placemen, Peers of the Realm, so they can vote as they’re told.That’s democracy in 21^st century Britain. When you add into the mix the upcoming gerrymandering of the constituencies, which is being done for the benefit of the Tory’s, and the newly introduced Voter Registration process, which will disenfranchise millions of mainly poor, mainly young and mainly Labour voting people, you realise that British democracy is on its deathbed. When Jeremy Hunt, the Health Minister, said Britain should be more like China it obviously wasn’t a suggestion but a future manifesto pledge. One the Tory’s would gladly fulfil as opposed to all the pledges they made on the run up to the last election which have turned out to be lies, lies and more lies. Some examples being the social care cap, rail electrification, affordable homes, tax free childcare and of course the supposed free vote on fox hunting which as soon as the Tory’s realised that they would lose, they cancelled the vote. That’s not democracy, that’s absolutism bordering on tyranny

The Tax credit fiasco illustrates quite clearly that the Tory’s are not ‘the party for working people’. They never have been and more importantly, they never will be.

Not much Talk Talk from the government.

It is worrying enough that it would appear a couple of teenagers managed to hack into telecommunications company Talk Talk's database giving them access to thousands of individuals’ personal data, but even more sinister is the Tory governments silence on the events of the last week. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact the Talk Talk’s Managing Director Dido Harding is married to Tory Minister John Penrose and she also has a seat on the governments business advisory group.

Got to look after your own you know.

Caring Tory’s?

An attempt to make carer’s exempt from hospital parking charges has been wrecked by Tory MP’s who talked it out, or filibustered it. Let’s be clear, this wasn’t a proposal to go to war, make drinking and driving legal or increase taxes on second homes. It was a proposal to ease the financial burden on people who are caring for the sick and the elderly 24/7.

Steel Industry.

I’m sure that during the first cabinet meeting, after the recent election, Cameron gathered the chaps together and said that they couldn’t really call themselves Thatcherites until they had destroyed at least one heavy industry and put thousands of northerners out of work.

However, the steel workers must bear some responsibility for insisting in having their steelworks ‘oop north’ in Labour or Scottish Nationalist constituencies, when if they had any sense they would have built them near Tunbridge Wells, or Reigate, or Camberley or anywhere in the South East except Islington North.

Snoopers Charter.

The current Tory government are very keen on passing a law, known as The Snoopers Charter, that will allow them to intercept, collect and monitor all our electronic correspondence in the form of internet use, e-mails, phone calls and blog postings. In the event of the Tory government being successful in their endeavours I would like to make it clear that the Home secretary, Theresa May, is really, really, great, even though she looks like a Federation Stormtrooper who has just removed her helmet, and that all the boys and girls at GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 are a great bunch, and that although I’m the author of this particular item within this blog the rest has been written by an anarchist group of hackers who are currently holding my pet ginger kitten Mittens hostage in an underground bunker in the north country.

When the law is passed, probably with the aid of recently ennobled Tory Peers, I will happily welcome the intrusion into my privacy and subsequent arrest, authorised not by an impartial judge but by a politician, when it is discovered I visited a website called “MAKE A BOMB WITH ISLA and MICK STAITE!!!!!!!! from Ohio, who made thousands of dollars baking and selling cupcakes”.

P.S. If anybody knows of Mittens whereabouts, please let me know forthwith, as she needs her daily injection.

I love you Mittens.

 

“nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all”.

(Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)