I have been enjoying the increasingly hysterical reactions of the Tory press to the imminent Conservative collapse come July 4th. I am one of those former Conservative voters, so conservative I set up a website called the Conservative Woman, who believe the coming Tory wipe out will be welcome and most deserved.
Let’s take three headlines from the Tory-graph/Telegraph on Thursday the 20th of July.
The truth is out: Labour will tax Britain to destruction
Not even billionaires can endure Starmer’s war on wealth (!)
And never knowingly out-done “Britain is about to pass the point of no return.
Labour will have free rein to unleash a technocratic, socialist redistribution of wealth, and to install a Brownite constitution from hell.” by Sherelle Jacobs.
That’s three in just one day. And there will be three more of the same hysteria every day until election day.
As Aragorn warned Frodo in Lord of the Rings, are you frightened? yes, Not nearly frightened enough! Tory voters are to believe that it will be Apocalypse Now, should Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party come to power.
Sorry but I’m not hiding behind the couch this time. While the Telegraph run Project Fear to stop Tory voters voting for Reform, the Times are running the ‘can we all be reasonable’ campaign conceding victory already but warning ‘moderate conservatives’ not to vote for Starmer because this would hand him a ‘super majority.’
William Hague (Lord Hague of Richmond) a former Tory leader who knows a thing or two about teeny tiny opposition parties, said as much last week. Yes it’s a Labour win, but please remember how important it is to have a reasonably sized His Majesty’s Most Loyal Opposition. “But as someone who led what was regarded as a particularly small opposition, and sat in the Commons for 26 years, I would be genuinely concerned about a truly massive majority for any one party, now or in the future.” It’s an argument that’s for sure but I doubt anyone is going to listen.
The Tories have a problem – and that problem is that everyone hates them. True blue conservative voters hate them, as they brought in record immigration, soaring inflation, and conserved absolutely nothing. The left wets of the party hate them, because they presided over Brexit. The young people hate them, because they have nowhere to live other than under mountains of debt. The middle-class voters that should be voting for them also hate them. Only the old folk, with their triple lock pensions will vote Tory, because they have been promised triple locked pensions, while the young get conscripted. That’s some campaign right there.
But for once, I’m not coming for the Tory party in this one. Today, I have some tough questions for all the voters that will indeed vote Labour or Reform for many reasons – immigration is too high, inflation is too high, the NHS waiting lists are too long and our tax bill is too high. What have you.
The British voter is guilty of one great sin, and that’s of getting what he wants and then throwing a massive temper tantrum when presented with the bill. Most of the middle class over the water, demand a French style welfare state funded by Florida style taxation. This is called cake-ism or foolishness or being economically illiterate.
Also like much of the West the Brits have a welfare system that is a Ponzi scheme. The design flaw of the radically secularist UK is that it depends on a religious society birth rate. It is no accident that the only group that maintains the fertility rate in the UK are immigrants, especially Muslim immigrants.
What irritates me is that voters moan about the cost of living and inflation when these very same voters said nothing while they were on the furlough and sunbathing during the first lockdown. I should know – I was here, and it was unseasonably hot May weather.
Oh how the regular Brits loved it. I was slowly going out of my mind, pointing out to anyone who would listen that perhaps pumping millions of pounds of funny money into the system was a bad idea, sure to end in tears. I think I called it a population pacification scheme, like the Americans in Vietnam. It was a bribe so everyone would go along with the madness.
But even if you thought lockdown was a necessary evil, and the bonkers eat out to help out scheme was good use of taxpayers money there is plenty of other cakeism to go round.
Let’s take Our Blessed NHS, Peace be Upon it. It’s a socialised health system with an ageing population dependent on a collapsing fertility rate. Long term how do you think that is going to work out? The NHS facilitates a massive transfer of wealth from the young to the old, and if you run out of young people, you are in trouble. Yet both parties talk about cutting National Insurance. Why? That is what pays for the money pit that is the Our NHS. Voters have the temerity to demand a cut to wait lists, more treatment, more hip replacements, and more IVF, but please cut my taxes also. Get a grip of yourselves.
Or my biggest bug-bearer. Childcare. It wasn’t that long ago when pre-school children were always looked after in the private sphere, usually by their mother. Now I know we are all modern now and all the mothers work. Recently the Conservative government expanded childcare so the State would fund 30 hours of childcare for children from 9 months of age until school. That’s a massive expansion of the State – the biggest expansion of the welfare state since the NHS, as the Times accurately described it.
But this must be paid for – by raising taxes. And not only that but it is often immigrants who are looking after the children, and the old people in either nursing homes or hospitals. Yet, the demands for lower taxes and lower immigration remain. So according to the average UK voter they should be entitled to just leave their 1-year-old with the imaginary non-immigrant childcare person who shouldn’t get paid. That’s not a plan. That’s fantasy land, an error coming and going.
And let’s not forget all the people who want to look nice, and believe in a very generous welfare state, one where claims for benefit on the grounds of mental health have exploded. For the pleasure of looking compassionate and the desire to spend other people’s money on the work shy, again you need more welfare spending. But please don’t raise my taxes.
For your average British voter, it seems to me, their greatest desire is to raise the taxes of everyone else but just not mine. Take everyone else’s immigrants away but not the ones I depend on to make my life happen. To paraphrase Winston Smith in 1984 – do it to anyone else, do it to my neighbour! Not me! Just not to me.
Sure, the Tory party are appalling and deserve a good kicking. But if British voters really want to see the source of many of their problems, they should look in the mirror.