Tory Conference Peddles the Same Old Promises

“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”. A sentiment that surely informs Tory policies. Bedroom tax has reportedly led to people committing suicide, food and fuel poverty has and will lead to more deaths. Minimum, instead of living wage, scrapping of permanent contracts and undermining employment protection rights, have all served to destabilise humanity and society. Despite policies being more likely to kill people than make us stronger, they are pursued blindly. Recklessly. Cruelly.

4 years ago George Osborne promised he would take on bankers and rein in their bonkers bonuses. Thus far he has not. He promised he would close tax loopholes that allow corporations, and the rich, to effectively cheat the exchequer. He has not. David Cameron promised to protect the NHS. He has not. So, when I hear the very same promises emerging from the Tory conference this week, I am at once patronised (they think we’re too thick to remember they made the same promises last time…), incandescent with rage (see above & read the newspapers) and resigned (they know not what they do).

For anyone at Tory HQ reading this, you can put me down as a swing voter.