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.