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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDear Theresa May
The Windrush folks asked me to tell you this!
Great to see you crying you racist piece of shit.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/24/theresa-may-worst-prime-minister-brexit-windrush
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But its not just Brexit, for we must judge a prime minister by her own promises. When she fatefully assumed the premiership, she declared war on the burning injustices she correctly identified had paved the road to Brexit. And then, in the subsequent three years, she oversaw the biggest jump in child poverty for three decades; a housing crisis which has only worsened; the rollout of a universal credit system which is a life-destroying disaster. The Grenfell fire will endure as a reminder of a social order built by Toryism which prioritises money over human life. The Windrush scandal in which British citizens were denied medical care, kicked out of their homes and even deported from their own country will remain a salutary lesson of where the migrant-baiting May promoted leads. The surge in violent crime will always testify to the disastrous consequences of the austerity May herself championed.
And however more insular Britain has become, lets not forget Mays foreign policy record, either: whether it be selling weapons to Turkeys murderous regime, or arming and backing a Saudi dictatorship that has rained British weapons on Yemen, slaughtering thousands of innocents and creating the worlds worse humanitarian disaster. If you wish to spend a moment expending valuable human sympathy, do it not for May do it for them.
The only leeway I will give May is this. With Britain in turmoil, it will be so easy for the Tory party to claim this is all on her; to treat her as a human sponge, soaking up all the blame. But to paraphrase George Osborne himself one of the chief architects of the chaos of our time they are all in this together. They all imposed cuts that ripped up our social infrastructure and fuelled discontent and anger. They all whipped up resentment against migrants for the burning injustices they, and their partys wealthy bankrollers, were responsible for. They all promoted an ideology which prioritises markets ahead of human needs and aspirations.
The May era was a time of chaos; but something worse now beckons. Until Britain is rid of being ruled by a disintegrating Tory party the proximate cause of our ills and a rotten social order that decays further with every passing day, then the turmoil will not only continue but deepen. What a legacy to leave.
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And how fitting that they'll meet shortly. The Conservatives will lose the next election no matter which one of the racist neo-liberal pigs replaces her.
hlthe2b
(102,579 posts)hlthe2b
(102,579 posts)Surely not Boris Johnson.
Does anyone else even have a chance?
malaise
(269,365 posts)and they are going down
hlthe2b
(102,579 posts)Those left are staunch Brexiteers are they not?
Seriously, is there any hope of getting a better government right now?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Doubly jarring that many of those failures were precisely the intended outcome of Tory policies.