Tories Starve Children - But You Mustn’t Call Them “Scum”?

We really do need to talk about this mendacious, vindictive, cabal of malevolence, masquerading as a government and their latest act of despicable cruelty.

“Scum” is described in the Merriam Webster dictionary as - 

“1a : extraneous matter or impurities risen to or formed on the surface of a liquid often as a foul filmy covering — compare pond scum sense 

2. b : the scoria of metals in a molten state : dross. c : a slimy film on a solid or gelatinous object. 2a : refuse. b : a low, vile, or worthless person or group of people. 

In most cases, the word “scum” is used to describe “a low, vile, or worthless person or group of people”. For example - 

“The person that burgled your house is scum” 

“That troll personally abusing you is a scumbag” 

“322 MPs voted to make hungry kids hungrier, typical Tory scum” 

You get the idea. 

Now it’s not a word I’ve used often, until yesterday, when it was reported Labour Party Deputy Leader, Angela Rayner, called a Conservative opponent, “scum”. *Gasp*

Half an hour later the #ToryScum was trending in the United Kingdom, and did so for the rest of the night, at the top of the trends, holding off challenges from Champions League football, and Angela Rayner herself. 

Come today, the #ToryScumOut was sat at the top of the trends. 

People are angry, Mr Johnson, and they’re seriously fucking angry. 

So I ask these questions to those who feel deeply offended by the word “scum”. In fact, some people believe a woman isn’t capable of using such a filthy word, so I must be a man. I won’t shame these individuals, it would be the equivalent of throwing lambs to the slaughter, and I’m a veggie, so we won’t be doing that. 

But anyway, those questions. 

Your government has just voted to ensure the poorest children in Britain are denied a food voucher, worth £15 a week, during a global pandemic and a damaging recession. 

Are these not the actions of “a low, vile, or worthless person or group of people”?

Bang to rights. And that's why they call you “scum”. Let’s try another. 

Your government spent £500 million on a scheme to give you £10 off your meal at Nando’s. Half-a-billion quid on a project that has helped spread a killer disease, and let's face it, not many of us at the bottom of the food chain will frequent restaurants on a regular basis.

Had they said, “here you go Rach, here’s a tenner off your next shop at Asda”, I would’ve applauded them for having the common sense to spend £500 million on *all* of us, and not just a filthy bung to the Home Counties.  

So I ask the haters of the word “scum”, isn’t bunging £10 off vouchers to people who don’t really need a tenner off their next restaurant bill, at a cost of £500 million to the public purse - while voting down a motion to help give the very poorest children £15 a week during school holidays - the actions of “a low, vile, or worthless person or group of people”? 

Of course it is. Let’s not pretend otherwise. 

How about your “world-beating” Serco test and trace contact system? It’s a fucking shambles. 

£12 billion on a project that could only come from the same leadership of an over-promoted fence post that wasted tens of millions of pounds on a poxy garden bridge. Take a bow, Prime Minister. 

The fall-guy, Matt Hancock, even tries telling us how our test and trace system is admired around the world. Is he permanently plastered? He thinks we can’t see the world covering their eyes in horror at what has become of little England. 

So, I ask you, when your government say a very firm “no” to Marcus Rashford’s eloquent, but incredibly powerful plea to find it within themselves to help feed hungry children, but say a very firm “yes” to new start businesses, with links to the Tory Party, and award them contracts, without any tendering process, for hundreds of millions of pounds worth of PPE, would you not say these are the actions of “a low, vile, or worthless person or group of people”? 

Do I need to give you a clue? 

It’s quite incredible really. The use of one word from the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party has stirred up more discontent with this tragedy of a government than Sir Keir Starmer has managed during his six months of unforgivable acquiescence. 

Some of the very same people using #ScumMedia on the end of their tweets - often known as flagshaggers - are up in arms when you compare the dear and glorious leader Johnson and his team of wretched reprobates to “a low, vile, or worthless person or group of people”. 

And they call *us* snowflakes? 

So there you have it. When you see Tory media spokespersons criticising the use of the word “scum”, ask them if their children will be adequately fed during the Christmas period. Fucking hypocrites. 

When you see the blue-tick celebrities crying about 322 MPs turning their backs on the poorest children in Britain, ask them what it was that made them hate that Corbyn chap, and legitimise that horror currently holed up in Downing Street, because you and I know as well as they do, Mr Corbyn wouldn’t tolerate hungry children on his watch. 

The anger out there is palpable. 

The government’s handling of this dreadful pandemic has been an absolute disaster. The Pound is disappearing from people's pockets, through no fault of their own, and the government has dithered, delayed, confused, contradicted, and in true Tory-style, handed out billions of pounds to the private sector for services that perform better in the public sector. 

Britain doesn’t rule the waves these days, we just waive the rules instead. We are a rogue state. A very little fish, in a very big pond. 

It didn’t have to be this way, of course, and no amount of wishful thinking is ever going to change that. Now is the time to craft an opposition that *is* capable of pulling 20 points ahead of Johnson’s deeply unpopular and unwanted government. The latest poll puts Starmer’s Labour some SIX points behind Johnson’s Conservative Party. 

This is because Starmer isn’t offering a compassionate and decent alternative, or as Starmer himself put it, “Making the moral case for socialism”. Yes, he really did say that on his ludicrous ten pledges thingie. 

From Hancock to Harding, we’ve had enough. 

From Sunak to Serco, we’re sick of the sight of you. 

From “We support the government” Starmer to that homeless Thundercat Tim Martin, we do not like you. 

From Dominic Cummings to Cummings not going, we’ve had it up to our eyeballs with your deceit and your dishonesty. 

So, would you say they are “a low, vile, or worthless person or group of people”? 

Yes, so would I. It’s just easier and quicker to use the word “scum”. 

After all, it could be worse, it’s not like we are calling Mr Johnson a Tory Cu next time x

Rachael ❤️

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