What Is Wrong With The Tories?

When the "Daily Mail" runs a story in which it accuses the Tories of getting it wrong on welfare and then lying about it and Tory supporters are pushed to one side in order to build a high speed railway that no one wants or needs at huge public expense, the question has to be asked - what is wrong with the Tories? Many in the party think they already know the answer - its the LibDems and the bloody Coalition. For those who don't support the party the answer is also simple - it is the nasty party, what do you expect? In fact, as is rapidly becoming clear, the answer is something entirely different - they are quite simply really, really stupid. Nor do you have to look far for why this should be. The party has fallen into the clutches of the Bullingdon Club, the Etonian fraternity dedicated to hedoism and indulging the sheer arrogance of those born into an over-privileged class. Watching this government is like watching spoilt teenagers smashing up everything in sight simply because they can. As such they have much in common with the rioters who lit up our cities last summer. It would be pathetic if they were not so vicious about it. These people really are nasty and, unlike previous incarnations of the party, they don't seem too concerned about hiding it. They think they've tapped into an underlying vicious streak in the British people and are running with it, confident that their skewed view of life is shared by millions and, like the rioters last summer, also confident that no one can do anything to stop them. The rioters thought they could do what they liked in full view because they believed they had caught a tide of popular anger and because the police had been weakened by cuts to their budgets. The Tories believe that they, too, can do what they like in full view because they've caught a tide of popular resentment and because contrary opinion has been taken hostage in the case of the LibDems or left in disarray in the case of Labour. But the resentment was not over the benefit system, it was over the bankers - the robber barons who have destroyed our future. Nor is opposition entirely missing because it is not dependent on political parties as the growing rebellion of ordinary people around the world has begun to demonstrate. The Tories believe that democracy is whatever they tell us it is. It isn't and, like the man who has a tiger by the tail, they can't let go because the other end has teeth.