This Tory UK Government ... The Luck Con

Thatcher started it but certainly this rotten-to-the-core cabinet are carrying on her legacy.  And it takes the 'I'm alright Jack' con to a whole new level. 

Over the last 8 years these Tories have been reconditioning everyday Jill & Jo into believing not only it's right to feel smug about your own good fortune, but you can treat those not so lucky as if it's all their own fault, and it's OK to look down on them, treat them as inferior, even worthless.

How can it be their own fault to be born with a disability? 

How can it be their own fault when a company goes bust so they lose their job?

How can it be their own fault when their partner is abusive and they have to leave with nowhere to live?

I could go on, and on, but I think you get the picture.

Les

This Tory UK Government ...

A new year but this government is still hanging on.   

'Strong & stable'?  Weak & feeble more like, plus uncaring, greedy, rotten, incompetent ...  

Les

This Tory UK Government ... The I'm-alright-Jack Con

The greed and the selfishness are bad enough but worse still is the blame culture that the Tory government have been peddling for the last 8 years. And of course they have managed to blame everyone but themselves, and made the blame stick. 

Together with austerity, their strategy has been so very rotten.  Unfortunately it's also been very clever at maintaining the political status quo in that (very) broadly the voting public are :

- the wealthy electorate who will vote Tory to stay that way

- the not so wealthy, but not so that they have to worry about money, and for all sorts of reasons their votes will get shared around all parties

- the JAMS who have either been scared into believing they daren't vote other than Tory lest they lose what little they have, or are so disillusioned in the main parties that they get lured into UKIPs even-more-right-wing-than-Tories 'promised land'

- and the least wealthy who are either in despair of anything changing so why vote at all, or can't even vote because they are now homeless.

The Tories have continually told the same lie about the credit crunch, easily believed as Labour were in government at the time.  "Don't blame austerity on us" the Tories bleat, " it's all Labour's fault."  And of course in Scotland & Wales they can blame the devolved governments.

I'd like to think there's a growing number of anti Tory, and one of these days there really will be a huge backlash against them.  But how many more people - children as well as adults - are going to go hungry, go cold, lose the roof over their head, and ultimately their life, before this happens? 

Les

This Tory UK Government ... The Lying Con

I've always thought if you are going to tell a lie you might as well make it a big one.  Well Theresa May, and one of her lackeys have come out this month with not one but two beauts ...

Tory Treasury minister Liz Truss stated ‘we are not making cuts to local authorities’, and the Prime Minister claiming that ‘austerity is over’.  What appalling contempt of the voting public as in fact they are planning a further £1.3bn cut to council budgets next year.

Am I surprised?  Of course not.  Am I angry?  YES!!!  

There's is so much money swilling round this, the 6th richest country in the world, and all that needs to happen is for everyone to have a share.  Yes there will still be those well off - that's absolutely fine.  But what's not so fine is those well off being so much MORE well off.

I have read somewhere that wealth leads to greed for more.  Sadly this is exactly what appears to be the case in the UK at the moment, and worse still there doesn't seem to be any end to it.

Les

This Tory UK Government ... Good-with-the-Economy Con

This month I'll start by repeating what I finished with in August, that the Tories keep saying they are the party who is 'good with the economy'.  Of course I refute this totally but recognise that if something is said often enough then people will believe it whether it's true or not.  But here's another nail in that particular Tory coffin ...
  
One of the worst Tory failings when it comes to the economy is their short term strategy.  By itself this would be bad enough, but it's made far worse as they flog off all of our public services, and usually don't even get as much as they should for it. 

As many of us know they have this flawed privatise-everything ideology, regardless whether or not this is the UK's best interests.  But why would they care?  They don't need the money!

Les

This Tory UK Government ... The Take-The-Mobility-Car-Away Con

Since 2013 the government has gradually been replacing Disability Living Allowance with Personal Independence Payment, which because of the way it's applied has often meant taking away the applicant's mobility vehicle, so far off 51,000.  The DWP apply a points system which I suspect is strictly adhered to with no leeway for common sense by looking beyond just the medical conditions but also quality of life.  Classic example is one recently where a woman who is terminally ill, has 5 separate medical conditions, yes is still deemed not eligible. 

But as if all this isn't bad enough the stupidity of this cruel government means that they take away the personally modified vehicle straight away when over 3000 have successfully appealed.  By which time the original car may well have a) lost it's value and/or b) been scrapped and so c) the government has to pay for yet another adapted costly car.

Campaigners fighting to change this include a Tory MP who points out that in some cases doing this that far from giving them more independence means the person can no longer work.  Hence the government's benefit bill goes up.

What a waste of money.  And yet they have the gall to keep on saying they are the party who is 'good with the economy'!

Les

This Tory UK Government ... The Public Sector Wage Cap Con

Short but not so sweet this month ...

Oh how generous of them finally overturning the public sector wage cap.   

Not at all because they aren't going to fund it!

Les