Chatting to a friend of mine about politics the other day I told him that all Tories were scum. He accused me of being over emotional and offensively irrational by claiming that ( he did not notice that it was not a claim, it was a fact!). He could not understand that I hold that view, not because of any political allegiances that I may have but because it is my ‘Lived Experience’ that I have never met a Tory who wasn’t scum.

Scum is the term for the thick layer of unpleasant effluvia and detritus that floats on top of a liquid or whatever stagnating and polluting it.

So why are Tories scum?

It is the role and responsibility of a democratically elected government to care for the welfare of all of it’s citizens and to foster an environment where these citizens are able to work towards achieving their aspirations, it is not the purpose or right of a government to ostracize or ignore the needs and wants of one section of the populace in favour of facilitating the desires of another.

Conservative/Tory governments have always been what Matthew Arnold, the 19th Century essayist and social commentator termed as ‘Aristocratical’ a term he used to include not only the landed gentry but the oligarchs and wealthy citizens of the land, the aristocrats cronies; all those who have a vested interest in there being a ‘small’ state intervention in the internal structure of the nation and there being ‘allodial’ rights to land and property ownership (allodial rights are where the property owner has sole rights without state intervention, although the state can exact punishment or fines if the property owner does something untoward. Since the ‘aristocrats not only own the land but comprise the State, the government that sets and exacts the punishments levied, there is a clash of interests and no great impetus to set punishments at a worthwhile or deterrent level)

A Feudal system allows a property owner rights over his land but also it insists that he has responsibilities towards his tenants and the law upholds the rights of those tenants to be treated responsibly. With the eventual and inevitable decline and extinction of the Feudal System there came to the fore a plutocracy and an untrammeled aristocracy that could ride roughshod over the rights of the plebeians and ‘working classes’ nnnmmm

The Conservatives praise a ‘low tax economy’ where citizens have more money to spend on what they want but do not explain that people will need to spend that ‘extra’ money on health care, education costs and pension provision for their old age; these financial outgoings of the populace will be administered by privately owned agencies who will take an administrative fee for doing so. So a low tax more spending money regime implies a low tax more statuary outgoings scheme and more money and profits for private companies. Is that fair?

The Tories/Conservatives still hold to the methods and means that they held to back in the days of yore, dividing society, ignoring the least ‘worthwhile’ and exacting hardships for the needy. In Victorian times the Workhouse was the place appointed for the needy to go to but the authorities made the places so hard to access and so unpleasant and undignified that people would rather die than go there. In the current day Universal Benefit is made so hard to access and to survive on that people have to jump through hoops to get it and to live in fear of losing it when they get it and to rely on food banks to feed themselves, a system which some Conservatives see as a thing to be proud of whilst they and their companies and consortiums pay less tax than is equitable.

That is why they are scum.

in a future post I may have something to say about the Labour party abandoning their principles and the Working Classes and thereby becoming ‘aristocratical’ bedfellows of the Tory scum.

Think about it