We must never forget what Tory Party’s done

WELL there we have it. The worst fall in UK GDP for 300 years and largest peace time debt since the Second World War.

The true financial cost of the

Conservative and Unionist Party’s management of the Covid-19 health emergency was laid bare by Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson’s fellow captive of SAGE and our health establishment, with Rishi Sunak’s stark news that he and his fellow cabinet ministers have created 7.5 per cent unemployment and decades of debt, deprivation of wealth and liberty that will result in so much misery for so many of our fellow citizens and their offspring.

But I vowed to be positive, so we can choose to be downhearted, or we can do something about this.

First, let us never call this tragedy the impact of Covid-19.

That is a lie and a narrative from the Government in an attempt to change the facts of history.

We will all now live through the impact of chaotic Conservative and Unionist Party mismanagement, and quite obvious chummery and malfeasance that has turned a health emergency into national economic disaster. Covid-19 did not cost you your job, your business closure, your children’s future, the death of a relative locked in a care home – a Conservative and Unionist Government did. That is the fact.

Next, we must ensure every Tory member of a town council, local authority or MP never forget the support they gave this Government or be allowed to hide from the economic and individual harm their party caused in 2021.

By not standing up against this rank stupidity they are themselves complicit in the devastating impact on our nation and the people of Newbury.

Next, we should never forget the options they had but chose to ignore. Putting Imperial College nonsensical modelling to one-side, and assuming at best case we will end up with 50,000 people ‘saved’ from Covid-19 through the draconian and economic vandalism conducted by our Government, Boris, Hancock, and Sunak (hopefully we will see this on a charge sheet in the near future) have just spent £20m per theoretical life saved.

Of course, every and any life lost under any circumstance is a tragedy, and we should have spent money minimising the risk of Covid to the most vulnerable, but was bankrupting the nation the only option?

If the Government had recognised in March, from all of the evidence from Italy, that this disease primarily took its toll of those aged age 80 and over, and spent say £100k per person to provide 24/7 ultimate care protection, and used as much PPE as a Conservative Party donor could fit in the barn of their newly-bought mansion, we would have spent £5bn. We could have made it £20bn to ensure those at risk were given safety.

Instead the Government chose to harm everybody to ensure nobody escaped. They could have wrapped a ring of love and protection around those that needed them most, and at the same time protected our fellow citizens, children and grandchildren from an economic cold nobody can now save them from catching.

So, what next? Once you are safely locked in your homes after a Christmas lunch allowed by law, not your basic rights of family, and the vaccines have been deployed, Johnson, Hancock, and maybe Rishi (the vanity of branding yourself when they have just torn a country into economic shreds is beyond ego) will take more time to spend with their families and of course in the board rooms of the companies or the research think tanks they have made millionaires in the last eight months. We should never let them rest easy from their actions.

I urge the Lib Dems, The Greens, (Labour may struggle as they fell into the trap of we should make it hurt more and did the same in Wales) and hopefully the legion of independent candidates who stand in any elections in Newbury and Berkshire over the coming years to ensure voters never forget.

As a former fervent Tory and former member, I must deeply apologise for voting for our local Conservative and Unionist Party MP in the General Election and Mr Johnson in the leadership election.

I am unsure if changing my actions then would have prevented this catastrophic failure just witnessed because who knows how Labour would have reacted, but that is not the point. We will bounce back of course.

The British people are better than our politicians give us credit for, so let us make sure our actions can ensure we are never governed by Tory elected official or allow these useful idiots to mess with our lives, loved ones and livelihoods again.

Bartlemy Road Newbury