{"id":8520,"date":"2023-03-24T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8520"},"modified":"2023-03-26T17:16:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T16:16:34","slug":"politricks-the-makes-no-difference-whos-in-office-fallacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8520","title":{"rendered":"POLiTRiCKS: The \u2018Makes No Difference Who\u2019s In Office\u2019 Fallacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I love Steve Bell!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

These days I try and avoid the political. Or at least I kind<\/em> of do. It\u2019s just sooo<\/em> depressing! Butt, for some reason I can never quite shake an interest in how and by whom we are \u2018governed\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing that I really hate to hear, is the \u00fcber<\/em> lazy cop out of \u2018it makes no difference who\u2019s in power\/office\u2019. I do appreciate that politicians of all types can be wearisome, and may at times seem to share many regrettable qualities. But I strongly disagree with the idea they\u2019re all exactly the same. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Labour gave us the NHS, the Tories (or at least large powerful sections thereof, sections that are also usually in power at the time) have always wanted rid of it, and have acted – albeit slowly and surreptitiously (aware that is a much loved national institution) – to undermine it, as a prelude to dismemberment and privatisation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the greatest ironies in all of this is how the Tories, and their sickening allies in the billionaire non-dom owned press, continue to stoke fears of Socialist Bogeymen taxing us all to oblivion.* When in fact the Tories are both taxing everyone more than ever (oh, except for the wealthiest pensioners), and<\/em> borrowing on a totally unsustainable scale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aye-aye!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

* Some of the insanely bizarre crap I\u2019ve heard working class Tories say beggars (buggers<\/em> is much more apt) belief. Such folk are so obviously parroting propaganda they\u2019re fed, day in day out, by a press in cahoots with the country\u2019s ruling Tory elite. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The greatest irony of all is that actually the Tories – supposedly (ie according to their own much trumpeted hype) good with money – are actually totally fiscally incompetent. Should that come as any surprise? They are the (a)morally if not fiscally bankrupt heirs to the traditions of Serfdom, and Royalty, ie they remain the \u2018robber barons\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They got rich, just as they continue to get rich, not because of skill or intelligence, but thanks, mostly, to inheriting wealth and power, and\/or \u2018insider trading\u2019, corruption, bullying, and plain old-fashioned theft. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Covid pandemic, during which our government ought to have been looking after the most vulnerable, was used as an excuse for an orgy of state-organised larceny. And the right wing capitalist ideologues \u2018masterminding\u2019 this short-term grab for the greedy even openly talked of the benefits of Covid \u2018culling elderly dependents\u2019. Nye Bevan, founder of the NHS, was absolutely correct: Tories are lower than vermin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These days I try and avoid the political. Or at least I kind of do. It\u2019s just sooo depressing! Butt, for some reason I can never quite shake an interest in how and by whom we are \u2018governed\u2019. One thing that I really hate to hear, is the \u00fcber lazy cop out of \u2018it makes … <\/p>\n

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