Yet Another Vindictive Tory.

It has long been clear that the Tory party is little more than a collection of vicious and spiteful bullies, but their evident glee at being able to throw aside all pretence to decency because of the present recession is rapidly becoming disturbing. They seem to have absolutely no sense of proportion left, so eager are they to use every political problem as an excuse to punish the vulnerable and reward the already rich and privileged with juicy tax cuts. The latest example of this sheer vindictiveness is a statement made by the Tory MP for Stroud and Rochester in Kent, Mark Reckless, about rail fares. Unlike any normal human being who realises that the ridiculous rail fares in this country are the result of corporate greed and sheer government stupidity, he apparently believes they are the result of "generous" state benefits for the unemployed, sick and disabled. Such benefits, he suggests, would be better spent on subsidising the privately-owned railways - privatising profit while simultaneously nationalising debt. The real problem - that wealthy people are getting away with not paying taxes - just doesn't register with this ignoramus and his mentally challenged Tory colleagues. There is, it would appear, no problem that cannot be solved by taking from the poor and handing it over the the all-important middle class voter while cutting the disgustingly wealthy out of the equation completely. Having seen for themselves the sheer insanity of the neoliberal economic thesis the Tory appetite for more of the same is sheer lunacy and virtually guarantees future economic disaster. Mainlining on greed they simply cannot help themselves.

Tories Fear That They've Been Rumbled.

Ken Clarke, the jovial Herman Goering-like figure in the Tory party, has warned Cameron that dropping him from the cabinet would "re-toxify the party." In fact, as their policies amply demonstrate, the Tory party has remained as toxic as it always was. Having assured us all that "we're all in this together" they have gone out of their way to attack every vulnerable person in the country in order to make them pay for the mistakes of their rich pals. They have thought nothing about villifying sick and disabled people and exposing them to abuse from the more vicious elements in our society, nor have they shrunk from blaming the victims of their wicked and deeply selfish policies. That the Tory party as a whole is no better than even the most pessimistic predictions is amply shown by a simple statistic - that Tory councils have, since 2010, sold off six times as many school playing fields than councils controlled by other parties. Nasty, sleazy, two-faced, unutterably stupid and congenitally unable to tell the truth, the party is also tearing itself apart in the continuing re-run of its vicious history. Tory backbenchers, having already revolted to stop electoral reform, have now decided to scratch the eyes out of their leader in two new pollicy areas - protecting the green belt and rail fare hikes. At first sight these might appear to be good reasons to revolt - everyone agrees that the green belt needs protecting and everyone agrees that rail fares are already too high. But, when the motives of these revolting Tories are examined, their opposition is seen to be rather less noble. Their objections to building in the green belts is based on protecting their voters in rural constituencies and fears that their property values might suffer despite the need for new affordable housing, while their objections to a hike in rail fares is based on fears for their waifer-thin majorities in marginal constituencies outside London. As is usual in the Tory party their fears and objections all turn out to spring from selfish motives. Ken Clarke has no need to worry about the "de-toxification" of his party. Like any other poisonous compound rebranding it can never hide its essentially deadly and thoroughly unpleasant nature.