News from the Tory Party conference …

 

What a grim start to the week! The Tory conference started yesterday and the MSM have one theme only: ‘Truss must go’, because of serious back-stabbing by senior Tories. The print edition’s front pages (link) look as if some UK Propaganda Minister had given a command (link) and all chief editors followed. Moreover, since the ‘reason’ for the backstabbing is this tax reduction which those ‘senior’ Tories want to be scrapped, it looks as if the Tory Party is desperate to out-Labour Labour. 

The two ‘senior Tories’ who have declared that Truss must go, after just one month in office, are a certain Mr Shapps and, what a surprise, that snake in the grass, Gove. I assume they’re not planning to cross the floor and join Starmer’s lot, so the question arises: have they already got lucrative ‘consultant’ jobs lined up for after the GE?

To round up the picture of desperation this government presents there’s a report on Steve Baker, fierce Brexiteer in a former life and now NI minister. The DT has a report under the headline:

“Steve Baker apologises to EU for ‘not always behaving’ during Brexit – Northern Ireland minister admits relationship between Britain and Ireland is ‘not where it should be’ and calls for ‘more humility” (paywalled link)

I didn’t read any further. After all, we’re only meant to scan the headlines … To me, this is proof enough that, once elevated from the back benches to become minister, politicians let their mandarins pull their strings. I cannot recall a faster ‘domestication’ of a Tory MP turned minister. Mind you, perhaps Baker was shown some torture instruments, like secret information of what the USA would do if we’re not following their demand. The sabotage of Nordstream 1 and 2 should still be fresh in ministers’ minds …

And so, as if to nudge us into accepting a Starmer government of ‘moar taxes’ – after all, even senior Tories believe taxes ought to stay high – the DT yesterday published an article by the man himself. The headline shows already that we’re now in the era of slogans supplanting reality. Starmer states:

“Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have driven our economy off a cliff – PM and Chancellor are wedded to a disastrous ideology, with the damage likely to be felt by working people for years to come” (paywalled link)

This headline is actually quite mild. In the text, Starmer, unafraid to display the deep-read Labour ideology – remember: ideology is bad when it’s the Tories, it’s good when it’s Labour – writes:

“I have listened to the ludicrous excuses trotted out by the Prime Minister and her remaining acolytes. The reality is simple and inarguable. They have crashed the economy. They did so by handing enormous, unfunded tax cuts to those who least need them. The reason people are now worried about their homes and their pensions is not because of Vladimir Putin’s illegal war. It is because the Chancellor has chosen to gift a totally unfunded £40,000 tax break to those earning £1 million a year.” (paywalled link)

This ideological sledgehammer is staggering. Never mind that this tax relief is only going to kick in next April – it’s ‘Tories help millionaires’ which will be the mood music for the next days and weeks. Here’s one other quote showing how Starmer and Labour will dominate the economic debate:

“Mortgages, pensions and family finances are not casino chips for a government intoxicated by dogma. There are many decent Conservative MPs who know this. My message to them is that Labour will work with anyone to ensure some semblance of economic sanity is restored.” (paywalled link)

The cheek of it! He clearly thinks that we have already forgotten Brown’s destruction of private pension plans – that was last century, so the young won’t remember anyway. His ‘offer’ to ‘decent conservatives’ is obviously bearing fruit, given the statements from Shapps and Gove. I wonder how many more ‘decent conservatives’ on the Tory backbenches will stand up and stab the backs of Truss and Kwarteng in the next few days at the Tory Conference.

Read this final quote from Starmer’s piece only after removing mugs, cups and tumblers from your vicinity – think of your walls and floors:

“The damage will be felt by the working people of this country for years to come. The next Labour government will do the painstaking work of fixing that wreckage – carefully and deliberately, the party of sound money acting in the interests of the whole country, not just a gilded few.” (paywalled link)

Yes, he really wrote that. It’s not tongue-in-cheek, he really believes that there are ‘gilded few’ who would also benefit from that tax reduction – e.g. those earning £50,000pa. He clearly hasn’t grasped that it’s ‘working people’ who pay those taxes, not his non-working ‘clientele’. Btw, there’s not a word bout how ‘immoral’ it is to reduce the 20% income tax for ‘working people’ on low incomes. 

There’s not one word or sentence in that ‘essay’  pointing to the general dire economic situation in which other Western or indeed EU countries find themselves in. There’s not one sentence on the economic disaster created by covid lockdown policies. Well, he’d have been a hypocrit had he done so. After all, he and his Labour Party have not only supported these policies but have called for even stricter regulations. 

Furthermore, there’s no coherent explanation given why four weeks of the Truss and Kwarteng regime drove the economy “over the cliff’. We’re led to believe that everything was fine until yon mini-budget. We’re told that Truss and Kwarteng, red in Tory tooth and claw, set out to crush ‘teh poor’ into the economic dirt, on ‘ideological’ purpose. The gas supply crisis which started last year already, even before the war in the Ukraine and the ensuing sanctions, isn’t mentioned. 

One other point, or rather: person is missing in this Starmer piece: the previous PM Johnson. The Partygate scandal which occupied the HoC early this year was elevated not least by Labourites both in Parliament and by their fifth columnists in the MSM. Looking back, I wonder if this was just political happenstance or if some shadowy, powerful figures were working hard to remove BJ because he was, as the Tories acknowledged, ‘a vote winner’. He’s gone now and clearly not in the mood to support his supplanter – for the sake of the Party.

Better prepare for a Starmer government of financial geniuses which will look after ‘working people’ by raking in more of their and our money to pay for ‘the poor’. Better expect a Starmer government which will do as told by their Whitehall mandarin puppet masters, ‘Remain’ policies included. Happy days ahead, innit like.



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