Tories are a deranged death cult: unsurprisingly this leads to deaths

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When narcissists, fantasists and twisted ideologues gain power there is always a fictional narrative. Reality intrudes eventually – but not before a price is paid in terms of suffering and death.

After a decade of hard right Tory rule, Covid-19 is going to force millions to abruptly awaken from Brexit induced daydreams and enter a real life dystopia.

The corona virus will expose the diseased and rotten state of British society: all the writhing Tory worms of inequality, austerity, privatisation, under investment, cronyism and class warfare will burst through the straining cellar door – the establishment’s capacity to cloak the stench exhausted.

Who would have thought that elderly people who had suffered a simple fall could die, not from the fall, but because they got infected with Covid-19 at an NHS hospital: infected by staff sans face mask and untested for the disease.

Who would have thought that Doctors and NHS volunteers would die because of a lack of basic PPE equipment?  

As doctors perform a grisly triage around life saving ventilators, how will the bereaved rationalise the priorities and competence of a government that shunned EU offers of help to procure ventilators, lied about doing so and promised thousands but delivered 30:  a procurement operation that Boris Johnson sniggeringly joked about as “Operation Last Gasp”? 

NHS hospitals are being overwhelmed; staff and patients left to bear the consequences of Tory cuts and toxic ideologies. No longer secure places of healing and refuge, in this pandemic they are in danger of becoming the depots where ambulances ‘bring out the soon to be dead’ to die alone.

The British Medical Association warned on March 5th that “the crisis in NHS pensions, pay and capital funding has left the health service close to collapse”. Welcome Tory voters to the desert of the real… 

The influence of chief Tory strategist Dominic Cummins has been evident from the start of the Corona crisis. He wanted to protect the economy, embrace herd immunity and sacrifice the elderly. This is exactly what one would expect from a eugenics fan like Cummins and from a party that he admitted had no interest in the NHS.  

While planning on how to deal with Covid-19, the Tories shunned medical science and brought in mathematical modellers who told them what they wanted to hear. That is why the Tories wasted 11 weeks in dither and delay; why the UK is now in the midst of a wholly preventable pandemic; and why the NHS is hopelessly unprepared. 

But the Tories knew back in 2016 via Operation Cygnus that the NHS was in no shape to deal with a pandemic event and chose to do nothing whatsoever about it.     

When brave NHS staff are losing their lives for the want of a simple face mask, how will the Tory morality of committing £350 billion towards jingoistic military status symbols be viewed?

When £330 billion (so far) has been set aside to bail out the balance sheets of private corporations, can the Tory facilitation of corporate offshore tax avoidance be ignored? If the wealthy want UK taxes to bail them out, could they possibly be prevailed upon to pay some tax in the UK? Not under this administration.

One is left with the conviction that the UK has fallen victim to a deranged death cult called The Conservative Party: one that is replete with propaganda portals (Daily Mail et al) so rabid and delusional that their tactics would make Scientology and Soviet Russia redden with shame.

The UK is no stranger to deaths caused by this dangerous cult – just ask any of the 130,000+ people who lost loved ones needlessly to the political class warfare of austerity.

Whether it be an ex-serviceman dying emaciated after chronic malnutrition, a pensioner committing suicide after having benefits withdrawn by the DWP, a homeless man freezing to death on the street or a man dying because he couldn’t afford his insulin injections and had no food in the house – the cause is the same chilling right wing ideology.

The high lords of death have been busy abroad as well, turning Libya into a collapsed state, assisting Saudi Arabia to murder civilians in Yemen and supporting Jihadi terrorists in Syria.

Shall we mention the billions of pounds of subsidy that the Tories have given to climate wrecking fossil fuel companies, their support for fracking and attempted suppression of environmental activism?  The Tories are a one stop shop of death-invoking madness.

With the UK economy in lock down, a lot of people who have so far been spared the worst of this right wing cult are about to gain some badly needed perspective. 

Over 12 million households in the UK have little or no savings. Millions of self-employed people will slip through the welfare safety net. Already 950,000 people are going to experience the fear, harassment and poverty of a life on Universal Credit and millions more will follow.

When benefit sanctions hit home and rents can no longer be paid, where will the homeless and destitute go in a pandemic? Don’t think for a moment that the Tories will suspend the hostile environment for benefit claimants and the low paid: that would be contrary to their orthodoxy. 

Soon we can expect the same kind of criminality and civil unrest that is threatening to spiral out of control in Italy – as people without work, support or savings are forced into the streets.  

British society has been hollowed out; power and wealth shovelled upwards to the 1%. The consequences of this in the midst of a public health emergency (made all the worse by lunatic Tory policies) will be measured in suffering and death: the payload of cults everywhere. 

We knew that Brexit delusions and populist nationalism were going to cost us. Who would have thought it would have cost us so much and so soon? 

People cannot say they were not warned. When a nation puts narcissistic idiots like Boris Johnson and deranged ideologues like Dominic Cummins into power, the results are inevitably tragic and measured in funerals and grief.

Let us hope that as a nation we can at least learn something from the dark days ahead. 

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Thank you in solidarity with all our readers. John Lynch, Editor.     

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