With the impending vote next week, here’s some of my reasons as to why I won’t be backing Boris…
1. Public services will suffer
Huge corporations employ the majority of their workers on a low wage. This means that their employees are unlikely to be able to afford private healthcare or education for their families and have to rely on public services such as the NHS. Yet such companies don’t pay their fair share of tax, this is not moral or ethical when they benefit from workers who need these public services. Personally I’d rather vote for a party that challenge tax avoidance.
Free healthcare is essentially a socialist policy. However, the Tories know that the NHS is an election deal breaker and could potentially end their party for good. But, fundamentally it does not align with their neoliberal ideology, and so we cannot and should not trust them to look after it.
No wonder the NHS is on its knees, denying, well knee operations ironically, with tens of thousands of operations cancelled. The Tories do not have a good record of looking after the NHS and people rightly fear their continued rule.
Is it all part of their grand plan? A lack of sufficient investment to inevitably run it into the ground, so they ‘have no choice’ but to privatise it.
Let’s just hope Trump doesn’t get re-elected. If so it’s bye bye NHS and hello privatisation.
Watch this space…
2. Austerity is a policy of punishment for the working class.
The austerity measures implemented under Tory rule have a much bigger proportional impact on those who have no/little wealth and no/low earnings. It is a policy that does not make economic sense, after all if people don’t have money they can’t spend it- not helpful for an economy. The IMF do not agree with it either.
If it was solely an economic measure for the benefit of the country it would apply to everybody, not proportionally higher to the most vulnerable. There are much more sinister reasons behind its design.
Not only is it not economically justifiable, neither is it morally or ethically justifiable. Food Bank use driven by changes to the welfare system has drastically increased since the Tories implemented Universal Credit. Yet the Tories dismiss such findings.
Even the United Nations were so concerned that they sent an adviser to the UK to report on the austerity crisis. They released some damning findings, see here.
Philip Alston a Human Rights and International Law expert claimed the situation people are in due to austerity measures is ‘barely believable‘ and ‘tragic.’ And that we are violating Human Rights. Rather embarrassing for one of the World’s richest countries don’t you think? Read his report for the UN here. The Government dismissed the findings.
3. Corporations have too much wealth and therefore power- more than many countries. For example they can simply threaten to relocate if they don’t like tax policies. Oil companies lobby against policies they don’t agree with.
We need to rebalance wealth and power. Voting Conservative is only going to give these corporations more power to screw us over…
4. Growing inequality by design is the whole point of a capitalist neoliberal model promoted by the Tories. How can this be justified? Neoliberalism is just going to make wealth inequality extremities widen. I know I’m shocked at the sight of more and more homeless on the streets.
The fallacy that people just need to work hard to achieve high levels of wealth. Hahaha. You can work as hard as you like on minimum wage…
Not to mention that the way that a lot of wealth generated today is by and for people who sit back and do little or no work at all, just pay somebody to shift their money around, or reap the rewards of renting out multiple properties to families who slave away to pay extortionate rents.
5. …and no trickle down Economics doesn’t work.
6. Tory Politicians are in position to maintain wealth and power in the hands of the elite few.
They are in power not to serve the general public or to make the country better, but to ensure they and their fellow elite and backers maintain their power and wealth. For example.. Jacob Rees Mogg and those who fund them. Yes one third of the country’s richest people fund the Tory party… and tories are stashing their rewards away from the tax man Panama papers and Tories and tax havens
Why does this matter? Because all of their policies are designed to ensure their backers keep and grow their wealth. For example with Brexit. Rather than considering how they could benefit the country, they think ooh a devalued pound means I can shift my wealth from other currencies in tax havens and make a shit load of money or hmm I can win my bet for a no deal Brexit. Or ooh yay we don’t have to follow EU policies and we can deregulate workers rights even further to make ourselves richer.
7. Economic growth is not sustainable with the limits of our planet hence climate change, air pollution, loss of ecosystems, plastic in the oceans and a whole load of environmental issues. We are genuinely in a climate crisis. This is not hyperbole. This is not propaganda.
Economic growth can’t go on forever- it’s not physically possible on a finite planet and in just 100 years- a very short time in the whole history of Earth’s 4.5 billion years we have created irreparable damage. We are rapidly reaching limits and seeing inevitable consequences.
8. Neoliberalism doesn’t work.
We are predicted to have another economic crash in a few years. We should have learned from 2007/8, but we’ve just carried on with the same old economic model.
9. Brexit will no doubt give Boris and his crew all the freedom they need to implement their free market, deregulated, low tax policies in a form of disaster capitalism in order to ‘finish what Margaret Thatcher started’.
We can read all about their unhinged ideologies in a book ‘Britannia Unchained‘ published by some of the current top cabinet ministers in 2012 when Brexit was a mere dream and nobody took any of those members seriously. Look at the Amazon comments to gain a picture of the (low) content and quality.
Then there’s all the issues with our reputable food quality standards and ethics if we trade with USA with their factory farming, chlorinated and hormone injected chicken and plastic cheese.. time to go vegetarian?
10. The Tories really ARE the nasty party.
Their reputation as the ‘nasty party’ is truly justified with their harboured beliefs and ideologies, not to mention outright disdain for those outside the elite. The working and middle classes, who they see as idiotic and unworthy.
Personally I want leaders I can trust, whose moral values I identify with and who actually are in a position of power with the intention to do good for the country and its people.
The qualities of Boris:
Unfit to be PM – cares only about his fame and self gratification
Some insight into how the Tories truly think…
Stanley Johnson’s superiority and snide comments on ‘the British public’
Priti Patel blames Councils for poverty
Jacob Rees Mogg and disgusting, insensitive Grenfell comments
A few of the many insensitive comments made by Dominic Raab
Johnson’s dismissal of the murder of MP ‘humbug’
Reasons Tories are the nasty party
Of course, they know this won’t make them popular with the majority of the public, so instead they’ve gone for a simple rhetoric of “let’s get Brexit done”. Scarily, it seems to be working.
I’m voting to save our country from Brexit or in other words freedom to implement whatever crazy and cruel policies they dream up under Tory Rule. I certainly know that few if any of these policies will benefit me or the majority of us living here.
I’m voting Labour.
Who are you voting for and why?
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