Voting Tory is a cross we must all bear today
WHEN I arrive at the ballot box today, I will sigh heavily, and then put the cross next to the name marked Conservative.As someone once said, there is no alternative. Yes, I, like many tribal Tories, think that the Conservatives seriously could do better: where’s the small-state low-tax lot so many of us thought we’d voted for? Rishi Sunak’s budget was a meaningless disgrace and increasing the tax burden at a time when the cost of living is shooting through the roof is immoral. Meanwhile, a Tory MP is caught watching porn in the House of Commons chamber. It’s all a bit shambolic. But…
Look across the floor of the House and who could possibly vote for that lot on the other side? Whatever you think of Partygate, and personally I think there are more pressing issues to worry about, Sir Keir Starmer has been banging on about it absolutely non-stop – and then it turns out that he did the same thing himself. He was filmed drinking in the office of one of his MPs when indoor socialising was forbidden. And, surprise, surprise, Angela Rayner was there too.
Incidentally, on the subject of the Deputy Labour Leader, some people thought I was being supportive of her when I called some Tory MPs neanderthal for comparing her leg flashing to Basic Instinct. Now we hear that Ms Rayner herself had been overheard laughing about exactly that with some fellow MPs. I take it all back: those Tories were not neanderthal but quite clearly had a greater insight into the mind of that woman than I did. She’s a disgrace to her party, her country and the House.
Of course, Neil Parish should not have been watching porn in the Commons or anywhere else in public and that he even did so shows quite how debauched we as a society have become.
But what about Claudia Webbe, who threatened to throw acid in someone’s face while she was a Labour MP? She’s an independent now, having had the whip withdrawn, but how did she get picked in the first place?
And what about the stench of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, which has never entirely gone away? Hypocritical, sanctimonious, resorting to class warfare and absolutely and utterly useless: that is Labour today. And never forget something else: Starmer campaigned for Jeremy Corbyn to get elected. He’s not fit to run a whelk stall, let alone the country.
The Tories deserve to get a bloody nose today, but let’s just hope it puts them back on track. The alternative truly doesn’t bear thinking about.
A NEW REPORT says that men with square faces, like Brad Pitt, are more likely to be successful than men with long faces, like Sir Keir Starmer (to choose a name at random). Some years ago I was told that everyone, face-wise, was either a horse or a cabbage. Try it. It works.