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Saturday 18 August 2012

The Shame Of Tory Britain.

With the House of Commons packed every day with dedicated and hard working MP's as shown above, and the Tory Vicious Tendency gleefully labelling British workers as lazy and workshy, top economists have called on George Osborne to abandon his destructive and deeply idiotic strategy before it's too late. Meanwhile pay for Britain's top executives, despite the recession and a fall in the FTSE of 6.5%, has increased by a staggering 8.5% while ordinary worker's wages has increased by a mere 1.6%. And, despite claims from the delusional Tory right, British people worker longer hours, with fewer holidays and with less rights than almost any nation in Europe. Not only is the Tory plan for the poor to pay for the mistakes of the rich deeply unfair it is also fundamentally counter-productive. Of course George Osborne never believed that it would work - that is not the point. Tory ideology is not really concerned with the economy as we would understand it. It is primarily concerned with providing them with a flimsy excuse to indulge their most deeply held prejudices and with providing clear economic water between them and us. Unable and unwilling to create greater general wealth in Britain the Tories have concerned themselves almost exclusively with grabbing as much as they can for themselves and their rich mates. For them declaring a man in a coma as fir for work, as ATOS recently did, is a small price to pay - for them at any rate. The Tory party is the shame of Britain and a stain on our history that badly needs to be expunged.

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