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Honourable Members?

Posted by archifCLICarchive from National - Published on 18/03/2010 at 12:36
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The Tories are like scoffing children in the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Questions this week, just like every other week but in the run up to the general election, hundreds of years of protocol and decency have been all but forgotten.

Members are shouting over the Conservative MPs who are not even disguising their rabbling - they don't whisper but speak at full volume, silent only when a Tory speaks, cheering when one of their own gets the talking stick like the elitist pigs they are.

I recall the student council in my secondary school being more reserved and mature, and yet you'd think you were watching children debating, yelling over each other with a strong self importance you only get from the toff party. But this isn't a student council - these people may actually be running the country in a few months time, and I worry.

This is confirmed, of course, upon hearing David Cameron reply to the PM with a simple "Wriggle, wriggle, wriggle." Outstanding wit, David.

Yet we can expect this kind of response from a man who brings no notes to the House of Commons, a man who seemingly instead of researching a well thought out argument, will simply jump on any current issue to give Gordon Brown gyp. It isn't about principles with this man or this party, or even passion for that matter, but about competitiveness - no surprise there from Oxford men and women.

And that's the issue here really isn't it? How can we expect the toff party to have any sympathies with the working class - the real people?

Especially after watching the hilariously amusing When Boris Met Dave, made by Toby Young, another Oxford toff - essentially Tory propaganda, which laughably compared Boris Johnson to Winston Churchhill, implied that Cameron and Johnson have a Blair/Brown relationship, desperately tried to shove down our throats that Cameron isn't an elitist [Snip! Sub Editor], that he was cool and pulled loads of women, which is of course exactly what we need in a leader of the country - and worst of all, stated that David Cameron had nothing to do with throwing a plant pot through a window, but at the same implied heavily that he did but he's too clever to be caught - because that's exactly what the public want - a leader who is smart enough to cover up his tracks when he breaks the law.

The point I'm making here is better expressed by David Osler of LiberalConspiracy - "the interests of the vast majority of society, who live by selling their labour power, are directly opposed to the interests of the small minority who live by exploiting it."

But hey, the Tories have changed now - that's what their entire campaign is based on - change change change - the government needs change, the country needs change, and the Tories have changed.

Today, David Cameron has proven that his party has not changed at all. He gives Brown stick for the way he has handled the British Airlines strike - referring to his efforts has "feeble" and that he has "no backbone". The toff party claim that Labour's weak response to threats of a strike is down to their financial links with Unite, who have backed BA's union.

Surprise, surprise, the toff party show resentment towards the unions - this is unusual, damn, they really have changed haven't they? "When the crunch comes," Cameron says, "[Brown] can only act in the union interest, not the national interest."

I would say that the national interest is the interests of the working man, us, the people of Britain, who are the interests of the unions. This statement shows the Conservative attitude to all unions, the resentment and bile dripping out of their mouths like an insect regurgitating faeces, which in turn is showing resentment to the people the unions represent - us.

There's no change here amongst the Tory party, just a young face ripping off a slogan that worked so well in a bigger country's election.

And what does Cameron really believe? Well, I can tell you that along with showing resentment to the unions and the BBC, he has voted against a ban of hunting wild mammals with dogs and voted to keep Section 28 - a clause against "promoting homosexuality or the teaching of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship", leading to a mass of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual support groups in schools to be closed down, and voted against a motion in 2003 that the case had not yet been made for the Iraq invasion.

Gee, an Oxford educated Tory worth thirty million pounds who hates unions, the BBC, homosexuality and loves a good session of fox hunting, we haven't seen this before!

With a new Tory leadership, we'll have change alright, but not for the better - the kind of change commonly known as regress, a regress of at least thirteen years if not more - Brown stated just today in the House of Commons - "they say they've changed but their only economic policy is from the 1980's."

But, sure, David, keep on spouting your posh little mouth off about change, but I promise you, the word you're really looking for is regress.

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