Tories Sacrifice The Nation.

When the banking crisis smashed into the economy in 2008 George Osborne, as the Tory party's chief strategist, took a long hard look at the situation, consulted his ideological cookbook and came to exactly the wrong conclusion. What was needed, he told David Cameron, was tax cuts for the rich, high unemployment, cuts to benefits and the sale of the NHS. But the genius strategist for the Tory party realised that they could never tell the electorate the truth about their intentions and drew up a plan to lie his party into Downing Street. As a result the Tories failed to win a majority and were forced into a coalition with the LibDems. Osborne realised that, with a pathetically grateful LibDem party to act as a human shield, they at least had a chance to spin a good story as cover for what they were really doing and advised Cameron to take on a notoriously unscrupulous serial liar, Andy Coulson, to tell us all porkies. Within weeks Coulson was revealed as a terrible liability while several cabinet ministers, such as Liam Fox, simply couldn't restrain their naturally criminal personalities. Worse yet it quickly became apparent that Andrew Lansley, despite all the lies designed to show the opposite, was straining at the leash to flog off the NHS and that George Osborne himself was the worst Chacellor of the Exchequer that this country has ever suffered. Meanwhile Ian Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling had translated "we're all in this together" into "you scum are going to pay for this," Gove had translated "education, education, education" into "only if you can pay for it" and Theresa May had translated "securing Britain's borders" into "let's sack all the border guards." Now, after nearly three years of sleaze and the ideology of the insane, we have an economy that is in terminal decline and a government that is described as ineffective in all areas. This is hardly surprising since it was Tory ideology and its parlous effect on the whole of British politics over the last 30 years that did the damage in the first place. The Tories are like a doctor who, faced with a patient with pneumonia, decides to infect him with anthrax and tell him, "Now you really have something to worry about."