Voted In By A Minority, Wanted Out By A Majority - Is This Really The Best We’ve Got?
I shouldn’t really care. We will still have a right-wing Tory government, whoever wins this marathon of mendacity.
My life won’t change very much, I doubt yours will.
Food banks won’t suddenly disappear - far from. Hard working families will still have to rely on food parcels and in-work benefits to feed their families.
The unprecedented pressure on the NHS won’t suddenly subside - what we used to call a “winter crisis” is now an all-year-long crisis and the private sector healthcare firms will still be filling their corporate boots, many of whom donate to the Conservative party coffers.
Thousands of human beings will still be sleeping rough, millions of children will still be living in poverty, and billions of pounds of tax will still be avoided, perfectly legally, to the detriment of our vital public services.
London will still be the money launderer's destination of choice, MPs will still have more jobs than principles, and Britain will still be a world leader in selling arms to some of the most barbaric and oppressive regimes that we are unfortunate to have to share a planet with.
The establishment will still be in charge, the rich will still get richer, the poor will still be swept under the carpet, disabled people will still be an inconvenient afterthought, and the working classes will still be held in utter contempt.
Anyway, enough about a Labour government under Keir Starmer and back to the Tory leadership contest.
These Tory leadership battles are now a triennial convention, essentially replacing one fucking useless covetous parasite with another, and delivered to you by the votes of around 0.29% of the electorate that worryingly claim to have “Conservative values”.
That’s got to be an oxymoron, right?
Is it wise to change your T-shirt when you’ve shit your pants? - because that’s all we are doing.
We are now all set for a lengthy battle between a former George.W.Bush employee and a former Goldman Sachs employee.
They absolutely spoil us, these Tory bastards.
It’s the ERG’s real candidate that was dared to say the word “cock” as many times as possible during a House of Commons session, and a bloke who is, well, a cock.
What a choice.
But what about Liz Truss, the Secretary of State for Pork Markets? She’s still in with a shout, simply because the Brexity Tories would vote for a lump of red, white, and blue shit if it screamed “leave means leave” - Boris Johnson being a case in point.
The only real trouble I’m having with this leadership contest is working out which of the candidates I detest the most.
It was quite easy last time out, Johnson swam in the sewers of humanity long before he lied his way into the top job - ask his former partners - but Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss really have made it a difficult decision this time around.
Who do I think will win? There’s not much point asking me, my prediction was 0.4% out for the EU referendum in 2016, and 1% out for the 2019 general election.
But seeing as you are here, it might just be Penny Mordaunt, as it feels like the momentum is with her campaign. Of course, this is dependent on Mordaunt getting the required number of votes from her equally rancid colleagues in the PCP - that’s the Parliamentary Conservative Party and NOT the anaesthetic that makes you see purple toads on your way to a psychotic state, Mr Gove.
I might change my mind by the end of this blog, so don’t go dashing off to the bookies just yet.
If Mordaunt does win she will be the first ever Prime Minister to claim 90p back on expenses for a trip to her local swimming pool, yet still voting to cut disability money (ESA) by £30 a week.
Think of it this way, Penny pincher. If you needed that 90p back can you even begin to imagine just how much a disabled person needed that £30 a week?
You’ve probably spent a few days hearing about her past, and if she gets down to the last 2 you will hear a lot more.
But I like to let people know about these little things, because these self-indulging, intemperate, grasping, Tory freeloaders think it doesn’t matter, and that gets so far under my skin it tickles my bones.
Then we have the three-quarters of a billionaire, Rishi Sunak - Britain’s wealthiest politician. A man that thought £10 off at Wagamama was the best way to help feed the poorest and most vulnerable people in our society.
Sunak will be flogging the furlough horse as if it was his own personal cash that helped pay peoples wages during the Covid pandemic, but in reality, it was YOUR money that paid for furlough.
And let us be absolutely clear, Sunak presided over Europe’s lowest sick pay, forcing people back to work when they should’ve been self-isolating at home.
Sunak - something of an asset to the rat the rich campaign - comes from the Blair school of charm, you know, the “she was the people’s princess” stuff? Sunak practices that sort of shit on a daily basis, trying to sound believable, trying to come across as relatable, rather than a ridiculously rich posh boy that drinks his daily coffee out of a £200 travel mug.
You would think Sunak is a fairly bright chap, after all, Goldman Sachs are quite choosy, but launching his campaign with placards reading “rebuild the economy” is pretty fucking staggering stupidity from the chap that presided over the economy for the past 2 years and 4 months.
Sunak’s campaign has pretty much spluttered from the start. Admitting you’re a friend of Boris Johnson’s isn’t likely to endear you to a majority of the Tory membership, and even less so to the voting public
And then came the first hustings, they were dreadfully dull as you can imagine, but well worth catching enough of it to realise Sunak couldn't spell the word “campaign”.
This leadership election is aimed at a very small section of the community, I doubt many people reading this have any say in the eventual winner.
Your next Prime Minister may well be elected with just 100,000 votes from a Tory party membership with an average age of 110.8. Will somebody think of the children?
As I said at the start, it makes very little difference to me who wins this inward wankfest, because none of us win.
The ideology, increasingly shared by the liar Keir Starmer Labour Party, isn’t designed to give you a hand up, it is designed to reward the rich with a handout.
What will any of the Tory leadership candidates do to bring the excessive profits of the oil giants under control?
Nothing, because they’re all in it together.
What will any of the Tory leadership candidates do to give the NHS the funding it requires and reverse the harmful privatisation?
Nothing, because private healthcare funds MPs.
What will any of the Tory leadership candidates do to restore the basic level of trust that we should be able to have in our political leaders, even if we didn’t vote for them?
Nothing, because we live in an age where politicians can and will break their promises at the drop of a hat with little accountability and without consequence.
Whoever replaces the disgraced squatter Johnson, the line remains the same, whether they are blue, yellow, or shamefully, red.
Fuck the Tories.
Take good care of yourselves this week.
Rachael
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