Tory Manifesto

[El Rojo]

I had a mooch round the Conservative website today, and in between vomiting and dry heaving, found some worrying bits and pieces between the waffle.

In the terrifyingly named democracy section, a move to erase the Human Rights Act, as it "undermined the government's ability to combat terrorism"
Additionally, they suggested that we shouldn't have rights without responsibilites, which would make human rights conditional. hmm

Other gems included the establishment of a border police force, which I understood to be called the Channel, greater police powers, less corperate taxation and "Reducing the burden of regulation to give businesses more freedom and greater flexibility" de-regularisation, now?

Basically, a load of popularist crap to buy over the middle class, promising the world, but not one mention of where this is comming from.

i guess this isnt the revalation of the century, but still interesting I hope

[Die Neue Zeit]

It's funny though how the agitated, anti-socialist self-employed and petit-bourgeois elements ask us to elaborate upon socialist society or to elaborate upon various reform demands beyond mere sloganeering, and yet here is Tory hypocrisy!

[politics student]

O dear.......... Human rights for the groups that the government likes then......

This is a very worrying news. I was hoping that the recession would course an ideological concensous change like the IMF crisis did before the rise of neo liberalism in the UK.

I mean WTF neo liberalism causes this so the answer is more deregulation???? :rolleyes: Reminds me of the spitting image joke about thatcher.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XflDMm0FLpc&feature=related

[Kyrite]

If you want a real laugh you should go on the BNP website, I often go on there for shits and giggles.

[politics student]

If you want a real laugh you should go on the BNP website, I often go on there for shits and giggles.

Main difference being that 1 is a main stream party likely to win the next election.

[Bitter Ashes]

I had a very good look at the Tory manifesto. Thier stuff about spending for jobseekers is most ammusing. They really really try hard to villify those unemployed by spouting off figures about how much the unemployed cost the treasury. The thing is, it's really a measly figure that pales in comparison to everything else, including the bank bailout, which ironicly enough ws a situation caused by the lack of regulation.

[RebelDog]

I had a very good look at the Tory manifesto. Thier stuff about spending for jobseekers is most ammusing. They really really try hard to villify those unemployed by spouting off figures about how much the unemployed cost the treasury. The thing is, it's really a measly figure that pales in comparison to everything else, including the bank bailout, which ironicly enough ws a situation caused by the lack of regulation.

I think the election of the Tories next year will be a good marker point for the savage public spending cuts that are going to define the next few decades in the UK. A return to the more overt class war of the 70's and 80's is predictable as the costs of the bail out are transferred to the working-class. No matter what party is in power the government is going to push downwards hard to balance the books to pay for the increased welfare for the rich. I hope the working-class can organise to push back up and defend themselves.

[NecroCommie]

Agreed. Although I would like to see the class struggle to radicalize dramatically from the 60's and 70's. If I were to be asked, we (the communists) should heavily stress the importance and meaning of class struggle during the following decades. Now at least when we have the ammunition to support the existence of class struggle, even in the central areas of imperialism.

[El Rojo]

They really really try hard to villify those unemployed by spouting off figures about how much the unemployed cost the treasury.

The favourite Tory buzzwords for the working class are currently "the underclass" and the "disfunctional base" it is revoltingly Tory.

The really nice touch about the Tory website is the blue sky backing to everything. "We have blue sky behind our lies, so we must be good." smart subliminal stuf there Dave.

[Comrade Blaze]

What did the poor unemployed do wrong? :(
This stuff doesn't make me angry anymore its just sad, I am so disappointed in how some people can think like this.
Well okay I am a little angry:sneaky:

Comrade Blaze:hammersickle:

[*Viva La Revolucion*]

Most of these politicians are so ignorant towards the working class that it's remarkable they think they can comment on any class other than their own.

'Now here we have a species called The Underclass. The underclass is everyone who is not us. We don't bother to see them as humans because it's easier to imagine that they're animals. Fortunately for us, we'll never have to talk to them or care about them and it doesn't matter what happens to them as long as they're kept away from our children. The underclass is divided into two sections; the first section, the hoodies, is the term used to describe every single person below the age of 21. Don't get too close in case you get stabbed or mugged, but you must pretend to care about them because they are idiots and need to be patronised and stereotyped by everybody who reads the Daily Mail. The second section is known as the unemployed - they are people who are lazy, ugly and fat. They sit around all day when they're not slapping their children in shopping centres. We have tried the best we can to give them jobs, but they just won't work. They take all of the good taxpayer's money, so they should be destroyed immediately. The only hope for society is David Cameron who is going to give more money to the people who already have it because they are obviously more deserving. He is going to ride his bicycle around council estates and laugh at The Underclass, then he will stop their benefits and if they starve it’ll be their own fault for being so working class. Meanwhile, Georgina and Piers will be even happier because they will now inherit five houses in Berkshire and they won’t have to worry about those nasty foreigners because they will have been sent back to their own countries where they'll have been tortured and killed.'

And that, comrades, is the latest Tory-English translation of the Conservative Party Manifesto.