Alan B'Stard is back
Where to start.
Should we have a chat about rounding up asylum seekers and locking them up weeks before any flights to Rwanda are due to take off? Which seems to have been announced 4 days before voting in the local elections.
Or perhaps putting those on disability benefits onto a scheme which pays them in vouchers, rather than cash?
Or perhaps not compensating people who the state deliberately poisoned with dangerous blood products because that might infringe on the ability to fund tax cuts before the general election?
It seems that the Tory party has decided to throw off its mask and show the people its real character, just in time for the local elections. Vote Tory and get uncaring, vindictive, cynical, shameless, selfish, nasty, real life versions of Alan B’Stard.
To be fair I don’t think that The New Statesman ever went this far, was this cynical, uncaring and manipulative. Targeting the poorest and most vulnerable and portraying them as little more than “useless mouths”, shipping desperate asylum seekers to Africa just to look tough when you know it cannot work, and saving money for tax cuts by failing to compensate those the state killed.
Makes you proud to be British.
But will it work? Is the British electorate impressed by this sort of thing? Do they think the disabled and ill need to suffer, that Rwanda is too soft and that tax cuts trump murdering children? Are they in favour of being even tougher? Drowning a few more babies in the Channel would surely help.
The Tory party does have supporters who love this stuff, and it is losing many of them to Reform; but will this help in the local elections and if it doesn’t will they reverse course?
Does it still have a conscience? Apparently not. Will defeat on Thursday at least make it think being bastards is bad for its prospects? It seems unlikely.
Rishi Sunak has lashed himself to the mast, there is no turning back. The B’Stards are in charge, what will they think of next?
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media
It's one of the stranger recent developments in UK and US right-wing politics. They seem to think that the very reason for their existence is to be nasty to their bugbears, but they also seem to have forgotten that, however naïvely, people expect politicians to at least try to make their lives better, and all their negativity just serves to highlight that.
At least The New Statesman was funny (some of the time anyway) - this lot simply induce despair