Who will care for the vulnerable or for the environment now?
With the General Election delivering a Conservative
majority, the cries of the working class are now being drowned out by the
victorious shouts of the wealthy and powerful. Let's be clear - Tories are the literal scum of
the earth. They will screw over anyone and anything to protect their wealth and
to accumulate more. David Cameron pretends to be ‘concerned for the working classes’
yet will do anything to safeguard the capitalist, oppressive system that makes
the largest proportion of society worse off.
The Conservatives essential argument is that those who have ‘earned’ their wealth should not be asked to help those who haven’t. They would prefer to see people homeless, ill and uneducated than pay more tax. Well, the right-wing ideology comes down to one thing- selfishness.
The misconception voters are routinely fed pre-election is that if they work hard enough any of them can ‘make it’ and become rich. This is a lie, in order for a minority to enjoy extortionately high salaries and bonuses there must be a broad base of poor people underneath them, who are essentially paying the bill for their extravagance. The Conservatives favour the rich and the powerful; they enjoy reducing people to economic units, rather than actual human beings. Maybe because neither David Cameron nor Michael Gove could ever confess they have an empathetic bone in their bodies.
The Tories are responsible for successfully breaking the back of the manufacturing industry, killing the trade union movement, selling off virtually all of the council housing stock and privatising everything they can. Given the electoral outcome we will probably see the NHS being frittered away and the environment despoiled as the party joins hands with equally rapacious business leaders. Consequently, not only may the rest of the population soon have to pay for healthcare- which is a basic need- the poorest members of society will become rationed out of it. But the Tories won’t care. Because the disadvantaged are merely a societal impediment. A rogue, lazy species that should be eradicated. Sound familiar? The Tories have combined this switch-around of society with hateful media campaigns aiming to undermine anyone with a different point of view from them. As a result, Rupert Murdoch, who is responsible for propagandising many of society’s worst instincts, is now one of the most influential men in Britain. Brilliant.
Following the 2015 election the Tories are setting out not only to destroy the hopes of the young, the morale of the working class and any prospect of the broken system ever changing, but also to have a catastrophic impact on the environment. The party is planning to curb the building of new onshore wind turbines, as well as give strong backing to the UK’s rising fracking industry, so we can say goodbye to any natural beauty the countryside sports, and hello to contaminated water. As if it couldn’t get any worse already, David Cameron has promised a parliamentary vote on the repeal of the 2004 Hunting Act. Probably in the hope that as a result, he and all of his affluent, propertied ‘chums’ can wildly shoot any defenceless creature that gets in the way of their unabashed race to see who can finish the preposterous job they’ve done so far of running this country.
The Conservatives have used every negative tactic in the book to marginalise the members of society whom they see as leeching away their ‘hard-earned’ fortune: single mothers, the disabled, asylum seekers, children, the working class, the homeless, the unemployed and the elderly. All of the people incapable of protecting themselves; all of the people with the least political representation and the weakest voice in the media, the people most in need of any government’s help.
All of their policies are thinly veiled attempts at polarising wealth further – at making the rich richer and blaming the poor for their own predicament- as though their plight, their vulnerability and their desperation is proof that they haven’t worked hard enough. The Tories retain no sense of humanity and are as discriminatory as their UKIP counterparts, which is why the result of the 2015 General Election is even more depressing.
I understand that everyone should have the freedom to be wealthy, I accept that. But when wealth means undercutting and undermining the rest of society: depriving us of healthcare, further education and housing, then it becomes more about greed than aspiration. Everyone should be entitled to the same opportunities, and a healthy life- not a life dominated by destitution or a government with a hidden agenda. But with the current Government set to stay for the next Years, as a nation we can look forward to raised tuition fees, expensive healthcare and a downfall in the general welfare of society. The Tories reduced the living standard in their last 5 years in power; I have no doubt they’ll do it again. So thank you, to everyone that voted Conservative- for perpetuating a system where only those who can pay for opportunity receive it.
Sophie De Groot, Greens Campaign manager
The Conservatives essential argument is that those who have ‘earned’ their wealth should not be asked to help those who haven’t. They would prefer to see people homeless, ill and uneducated than pay more tax. Well, the right-wing ideology comes down to one thing- selfishness.
The misconception voters are routinely fed pre-election is that if they work hard enough any of them can ‘make it’ and become rich. This is a lie, in order for a minority to enjoy extortionately high salaries and bonuses there must be a broad base of poor people underneath them, who are essentially paying the bill for their extravagance. The Conservatives favour the rich and the powerful; they enjoy reducing people to economic units, rather than actual human beings. Maybe because neither David Cameron nor Michael Gove could ever confess they have an empathetic bone in their bodies.
The Tories are responsible for successfully breaking the back of the manufacturing industry, killing the trade union movement, selling off virtually all of the council housing stock and privatising everything they can. Given the electoral outcome we will probably see the NHS being frittered away and the environment despoiled as the party joins hands with equally rapacious business leaders. Consequently, not only may the rest of the population soon have to pay for healthcare- which is a basic need- the poorest members of society will become rationed out of it. But the Tories won’t care. Because the disadvantaged are merely a societal impediment. A rogue, lazy species that should be eradicated. Sound familiar? The Tories have combined this switch-around of society with hateful media campaigns aiming to undermine anyone with a different point of view from them. As a result, Rupert Murdoch, who is responsible for propagandising many of society’s worst instincts, is now one of the most influential men in Britain. Brilliant.
Following the 2015 election the Tories are setting out not only to destroy the hopes of the young, the morale of the working class and any prospect of the broken system ever changing, but also to have a catastrophic impact on the environment. The party is planning to curb the building of new onshore wind turbines, as well as give strong backing to the UK’s rising fracking industry, so we can say goodbye to any natural beauty the countryside sports, and hello to contaminated water. As if it couldn’t get any worse already, David Cameron has promised a parliamentary vote on the repeal of the 2004 Hunting Act. Probably in the hope that as a result, he and all of his affluent, propertied ‘chums’ can wildly shoot any defenceless creature that gets in the way of their unabashed race to see who can finish the preposterous job they’ve done so far of running this country.
The Conservatives have used every negative tactic in the book to marginalise the members of society whom they see as leeching away their ‘hard-earned’ fortune: single mothers, the disabled, asylum seekers, children, the working class, the homeless, the unemployed and the elderly. All of the people incapable of protecting themselves; all of the people with the least political representation and the weakest voice in the media, the people most in need of any government’s help.
All of their policies are thinly veiled attempts at polarising wealth further – at making the rich richer and blaming the poor for their own predicament- as though their plight, their vulnerability and their desperation is proof that they haven’t worked hard enough. The Tories retain no sense of humanity and are as discriminatory as their UKIP counterparts, which is why the result of the 2015 General Election is even more depressing.
I understand that everyone should have the freedom to be wealthy, I accept that. But when wealth means undercutting and undermining the rest of society: depriving us of healthcare, further education and housing, then it becomes more about greed than aspiration. Everyone should be entitled to the same opportunities, and a healthy life- not a life dominated by destitution or a government with a hidden agenda. But with the current Government set to stay for the next Years, as a nation we can look forward to raised tuition fees, expensive healthcare and a downfall in the general welfare of society. The Tories reduced the living standard in their last 5 years in power; I have no doubt they’ll do it again. So thank you, to everyone that voted Conservative- for perpetuating a system where only those who can pay for opportunity receive it.
Sophie De Groot, Greens Campaign manager
