Tories’ hypocrisy over Rayner home issue

DOCTORS swear the Hippocratic Oath; they promise to care for their patients. Did Tory MPs (and Tory Party members?) swear the Hypocritic Oath recently?

Formerly the Conservative Party followed “the good chaps “theory in politics. This committed MPs and party supporters to principled behaviour with honesty and care for the “hard-working” members of our society.

Now the Tories are prepared to get down in the political gutter where inflated derogatory attacks on political opponents, the use of false “evidence” and neglect of essential issues is regarded as normal.

A prime example of the hypocrisy is the repeated attacks on Angela

Rayner, deputy leader of Labour, claiming that she used the wrong address when putting her name on the electoral roll. The police have yet to find evidence on this and Ms Rayner assures any of the media that are not prisoners of conspiracy theories that she is not guilty.

For the Tories to spend so long turning an unproven minor “crime” into the second most significant political topic of the week reminds us of the childish negativity they applied when they claimed that, during Covid lockdown, Keir Starmer drinking a pint of larger with a pizza was identical to the uncounted booze-ups in Boris Johnson’s Number 10 when wine bottles were bought in by the suitcase full.

The accusation about her alleged failure to pay capital gains tax (police inquiry unfinished at present) was first made by Lord

Ashcroft in a book he wrote published by one of his own companies. He lives for part of the time in Belize (to avoid paying too much tax on “his vast wealth” ) and was given his title after a considerable donation to Tory funds.

So applying the Hypocritic Oath, Tories pursue a relative wisp of supposed misbehaviour by a working class, northern former single mother while the “big guys” go about their merry way. Jeremy Hall