Pogue
4th January 2010, 18:35
Anyone whose been looking at the newspapers or television today will have noticed the recent pledge by David Cameron and his motley crew of fellow Etonians, English Gentlemen and assorted debauched cretins will have picked up on claims that the Tories are going all left wing for the upcoming general election by continuing David Cameron's long held pledge of maintaining funding to the NHS. Some of us might even be lucky enough to have Daves mug posted on a billboard near our houses (cheers, Dave!), a pleasure up there with vomiting yourself to death and church.
While any seasoned member of that collection of charming individuals collectively known as the left will be able to see more of this Tory doublespeak, for the purpose of clarification to anyone else who might be looking (rightfully) for an alternative to Labour we're going to respond to this claim.
At the moment in the UK, we're in a time when politics of principle come second (er, third, fourth, well, somewhere near the bottom) to politics of image. If new Labour are rebranding for the 'class war' image they abandoned long ago, then the Conservatives are doing the 'Michael Jackson' of politics and completely changing their image to be almost the opposite of what it was before (and hopefully they'll meet a similar end). it takes a special period for the Tories to be taken seriously as the defenders of public services, but at the time when you can see billboards of a Holocaust denier 'toasting' the people of Barking or footie hooligans chanting En-ger-land in Wales little is as it seems. We'll be seeing coppers making communities nicer places to live next!
The Conservatives have consistently been a party of privatisation. Little has changed, especially given the current economic climate, caused by there mates the bankers and the general failings of the capitalist system. As we know, politics is a game of words more often than actions. We can expect the Tories to focus on the NHS - very intently. But this focus, far from improving it (heres a hint, sack the managers!) will be merticulous detail being awarded to what part of it they can quitely sell off to the highest bidder first. Cameron will be making the NHS 'more efficient' - by means of cutting jobs, dumping workloads upon fewer workers and hiring shitloads of talking shop advisors to tell patients to use less toilet roll. On paper, to the rich this is 'efficiency', because it means they are spending less money on our services and more on fattening themselves up (but don't you want to just pinch those chubby cheeks of Cameron's, ey? Really fucking hard.) This will be more of the same for the working class - getting fucked over by the politicians and the wealthy.
Don't fall for Cameron's desperate, shameless attempt to win votes in an icnreasingly tight looking election. There is nothing to gain in a Troy vote for ordinary hard working people, despite the rhetoric, the Tories are scum, just as they've always been. Don't believe the Labour claptrap about class politics either, because Labour wouldn't know class politics if it held a picket outside their house and did their windows in. Most of all, don't let the opputunistic bigots of the BNP prey on your sense of disenfranchisement with their radical sounding slogans. The BNP are the poison which mop up the floor following the fallout from the bigger parties and are just as opposed to our interests as any of the usual suspects. Spend the next few months looking after yourselves and your communities - organise, and show the whole circle of wankers once and for all what working class politics are! Working class politics has never been about the far rights lies, the spinelessness of the upper and middle classes or pandering to populist slogans, but union organising, fighting back and taking pride. Lets make sure we continue that tradition through the months ahead!
Everest Mann
Good little article on the Tories bleating on about the NHS recently.
While any seasoned member of that collection of charming individuals collectively known as the left will be able to see more of this Tory doublespeak, for the purpose of clarification to anyone else who might be looking (rightfully) for an alternative to Labour we're going to respond to this claim.
At the moment in the UK, we're in a time when politics of principle come second (er, third, fourth, well, somewhere near the bottom) to politics of image. If new Labour are rebranding for the 'class war' image they abandoned long ago, then the Conservatives are doing the 'Michael Jackson' of politics and completely changing their image to be almost the opposite of what it was before (and hopefully they'll meet a similar end). it takes a special period for the Tories to be taken seriously as the defenders of public services, but at the time when you can see billboards of a Holocaust denier 'toasting' the people of Barking or footie hooligans chanting En-ger-land in Wales little is as it seems. We'll be seeing coppers making communities nicer places to live next!
The Conservatives have consistently been a party of privatisation. Little has changed, especially given the current economic climate, caused by there mates the bankers and the general failings of the capitalist system. As we know, politics is a game of words more often than actions. We can expect the Tories to focus on the NHS - very intently. But this focus, far from improving it (heres a hint, sack the managers!) will be merticulous detail being awarded to what part of it they can quitely sell off to the highest bidder first. Cameron will be making the NHS 'more efficient' - by means of cutting jobs, dumping workloads upon fewer workers and hiring shitloads of talking shop advisors to tell patients to use less toilet roll. On paper, to the rich this is 'efficiency', because it means they are spending less money on our services and more on fattening themselves up (but don't you want to just pinch those chubby cheeks of Cameron's, ey? Really fucking hard.) This will be more of the same for the working class - getting fucked over by the politicians and the wealthy.
Don't fall for Cameron's desperate, shameless attempt to win votes in an icnreasingly tight looking election. There is nothing to gain in a Troy vote for ordinary hard working people, despite the rhetoric, the Tories are scum, just as they've always been. Don't believe the Labour claptrap about class politics either, because Labour wouldn't know class politics if it held a picket outside their house and did their windows in. Most of all, don't let the opputunistic bigots of the BNP prey on your sense of disenfranchisement with their radical sounding slogans. The BNP are the poison which mop up the floor following the fallout from the bigger parties and are just as opposed to our interests as any of the usual suspects. Spend the next few months looking after yourselves and your communities - organise, and show the whole circle of wankers once and for all what working class politics are! Working class politics has never been about the far rights lies, the spinelessness of the upper and middle classes or pandering to populist slogans, but union organising, fighting back and taking pride. Lets make sure we continue that tradition through the months ahead!
Everest Mann
Good little article on the Tories bleating on about the NHS recently.