{"id":7507,"date":"2022-12-17T01:18:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T01:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=7507"},"modified":"2022-12-22T04:58:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T04:58:37","slug":"politricks-toryism-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=7507","title":{"rendered":"POLiTRiCKS: Toryism Out Of Control\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gljtvwhcdhc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s really saddening to find ourselves in a state where Jonathan Pie and The Daily Mash are better and more reliable sources of news than any of the mainstream screen media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a staunch supporter of the BBC, as a \u2018national good\u2019, a publicly owned and run non-politically affiliated institution, there for the benefit of all in the UK, free from commercial exploitation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ever since its inception most Tories have disliked the BBC, and even as they continue to disassemble and co-opt it, from within, they still caricature it as a hotbed of leftist ne\u2019erdowells. In actual fact it has been infiltrated and taken over by bean-counting place-serving yes-men\/women, appointed by the Tories for so long now I\u2019ve lost track. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s gotten to the point now that even so called news items are actually party political broadcasts for the Tory agenda. I heard a piece on the NHS \u2018collaborating\u2019 with private healthcare on BBC R4 the other day, and couldn\u2019t believe how blatantly Tory it was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Essentially it portrayed the private sector as coming to the rescue of the ailing NHS. No examination of why this has come to pass. Nor what it means for the future of the NHS, beyond the programmes\u2019 blatantly biased message that public\/private cooperation can only be good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But coming to Pie\u2019s latest rant; it\u2019s a theme many on the left are slapping their faces at. When Starmer recently took Sunak to task over the economic meltdown the Tories have gotten us into, and in particular the role of Tory self-serving greed &#8211; in the latest form of Mone &#8211; in all of this, Rishi did exactly what Pie is talking about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than address the blatant theivery of the super rich, at a time when the nation was and still is supposedly \u2018all in it together\u2019, this City millionaire instead tries to steer the conversation towards blaming those sections of the \u2018lower orders\u2019 who are having the temerity to strike, in pursuit of such outrageous demands as living wages and job security. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And let\u2019s not forget that Toryism has always campaigned for the <em>erosion<\/em> of workers\u2019 rights. That\u2019s why we\u2019ve seen a thermonuclear mushrooming of \u2018zero hours\u2019 contracts. That\u2019s what Brexit was always really about. Removing that pesky EU red tape, aka deregulation, has always been about taking away rights and powers from those lower down the food chain in order to benefit those further up it, making it easier for them to skim off the cream. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Mick Lynch is constantly saying, to anyone who\u2019ll listen, these rich greedy fuckers are getting wealthier by parasitically exploiting all of us. And yet, because they have vast wealth, they brazenly use it to manufacture a \u2018divide and rule\u2019 scenario, in which the middle and working classes blame each other, and especially those at the bottom of the pile &#8211; from those fleeing poverty, persecution, war, etc, to those who actually serve us day in day out (teachers, posties, rail workers, nurses) &#8211; it\u2019s literally fucking insane!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As The Daily Mash have noted, we\u2019re drifting dangerously close to outright fascism. A right wing one party state, run by a wealthy clique whose rapine self-interest is gradually being set in legal stone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two World Wars and the sacrifices of rivers of blood, mostly the blood of the cannon-fodder workers, saw the demise of the Victorian and Edwardian era of aristocracy, and &#8211; in response to those collective sacrifices &#8211; the setting up of many national and international forms of governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NHS and the EU\/NATO, etc, were all born out of those bouts of unprecedented blood-letting that occurred really quite recently. And we\u2019re seeing it all carved up, flogged off and destroyed by greedy capitalists whose self-interest and short-termism are totally unsuited to a world in which we face so many human-made (and other) threats to our collective existence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nuclear proliferation and war, chemical and biological (never mind ordinary) weapons, pollution, climate change, mass extinctions for which we are the chief cause, all these require strong and morally directed governance. <em>Not <\/em>rapine neo-liberal capitalism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s grim out there right now. And I\u2019m not talking about the winter weather. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s really saddening to find ourselves in a state where Jonathan Pie and The Daily Mash are better and more reliable sources of news than any of the mainstream screen media. I\u2019m a staunch supporter of the BBC, as a \u2018national good\u2019, a publicly owned and run non-politically affiliated institution, there for the benefit of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=7507\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;POLiTRiCKS: Toryism Out Of Control\u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[181,89,130,77,19,105,167,169,182,125,111,104],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-1X5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7744,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions\/7744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}