An interesting revelation appears in a letter to a newspaper written by Tory MP and celebrated sword carrier Penny Mordaunt. Boasting about how many Conservative party associations she has visited and how much money she has supposedly raised, she lets slip a simple truth about the coming general election. “My motivation,” she says, “is straightforward. To support the campaign frontline against the threat of a Labour government.” So, what’s controversial about that, you might ask? Nothing because we know that the Tories have nothing left to say, just more of the same failure that for 14 years has broken Britain.
Labour’s offer to the British people won’t come until Rishi Sunak stops dithering about the date of the next election. But even now we have a fair idea what Mordaunt regards as the threat of a Labour government. The threats include:
- Two million more NHS appointments a year to bring down waiting lists, which have increased by over 200% under the Conservatives
- Remove tax breaks from private schools and spend the money on crumbling state schools
- Bring back the family doctor and improve the NHS, which is currently in a state of crisis
- Stop water companies tipping shit into our rivers and seas
- Clear the asylum backlog and stop housing people in expensive hotels
- Greater support for women who are victims of violence
- Bring back financial security to families after Liz Truss crashed the economy, sending interest rates sky high.
- Make the minimum wage a genuine living wage
Yes, that’s what Mordaunt and her pals are opposed to, presumably including Labour’s pledge to, and I quote: ‘(To) bring down waits for cancer appointments with a ‘Fit For the Future Fund’ doubling the number of state-of-the-art MRI and CT scanners in the NHS to ensure early diagnosis.’ Actually, there’s no ‘presumably’ about it. The way in which the Tories have systematically and deliberately underfunded the NHS over 14 years cannot be seen to be a coincidence. It’s absolutely deliberate because – and here comes a great big juicy fact – the Conservative party opposes the very existence of the NHS since it was founded in 1948. The only reason PM Sunak registered at his local GP last year was because his PR team said it would make him look distant and out-of-touch by only using his private GP service, instead of the same service everyone else relies on.
Mordaunt, perhaps inadvertently, has exposed the real reason so many people hate politics and politicians. The perception is that all politicians are the same, they are only in it for themselves, that all they do is hurls insults, they have no idea of the lives ordinary people live. Ladies and gentleman, may I give you the Conservative and Unionist Party? That’s them in a nutshell. And still, after creating a country where everything is broken and nothing works, their raison d’être is power for the sake of power and nothing else.
The only ‘threat’ from a Labour government is that things will get better. And I firmly believe it will. I believe in the sincerity of Labour leader Keir Starmer and his shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves who genuinely understand how working class people live their lives because they both hail from working class backgrounds.
The reality is that bringing the NHS to its knees, ballooning food poverty, crumbling schools, waterways being full of shit and so on are the direct result of political decisions. It doesn’t have to be this way. It’s up to us to change it, if we want to.
Mordaunt has rather given the Tory game away by announcing that all she and her party care about is retaining power. They have no answers to the problems they created and all they have left to say is that the party of opposition, which wants to restore the NHS to the healthy state it was in when they were voted out in 2010, presents a danger. Less people dying from cancer strikes me as rather a good thing, not a ‘threat’.
Stick to carrying swords, Pen. At least you were good at something, once.
