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Something that really bugs me...
May. 7th, 2009 12:40 pmAbout the Tories.
Now, there’s a lot of things that bug me about the Tories. I hate Labour’s current incarnation but it’s nothing compared to my loathing of the Tory party. It’s like the difference between the Flu and the Ebola Virus - while I can’t abide the flu, I’ll take it over bleeding from every orifice.
So, there are many things I loath about the Tories - but recently one has been niggling at me more and more.
The Tories treat politics like a game. They play it to score points. Now, to a degree every party does it - but the Tories try to score points no matter what. I think this can be particularly seen by the Labour policies they oppose so very vehemently:
ID cards, long periods of detention before trial (and the ridiculous dramatics surrounding their protest on that one), the Ghurkhas (despite Tory immigration stance), the DNA database...
Now I despise the government position on all of these things. But they are TORY policies. These are EXACTLY the positions they would take and have taken in the past. Rabid anti-immigration positions, loathsome human rights slashing, ridiculously disproportionate law and order proposals. These are Tory policies, Tory positions and at any other time they’d be waving pompoms and cheerleading them through Parliament (how’s THAT for a mental image?)
And it infuriates me. I mean, I’m glad that these vile policies are opposed - but the fact the Tories aren’t even true to their own rotten principles just solidifies my contempt for the whole party. The Lib Dems don’t pull crap like that - they may not have a clue where they stand on any issue, but when they DO finally have a policy, they stand by it.
Now, there’s a lot of things that bug me about the Tories. I hate Labour’s current incarnation but it’s nothing compared to my loathing of the Tory party. It’s like the difference between the Flu and the Ebola Virus - while I can’t abide the flu, I’ll take it over bleeding from every orifice.
So, there are many things I loath about the Tories - but recently one has been niggling at me more and more.
The Tories treat politics like a game. They play it to score points. Now, to a degree every party does it - but the Tories try to score points no matter what. I think this can be particularly seen by the Labour policies they oppose so very vehemently:
ID cards, long periods of detention before trial (and the ridiculous dramatics surrounding their protest on that one), the Ghurkhas (despite Tory immigration stance), the DNA database...
Now I despise the government position on all of these things. But they are TORY policies. These are EXACTLY the positions they would take and have taken in the past. Rabid anti-immigration positions, loathsome human rights slashing, ridiculously disproportionate law and order proposals. These are Tory policies, Tory positions and at any other time they’d be waving pompoms and cheerleading them through Parliament (how’s THAT for a mental image?)
And it infuriates me. I mean, I’m glad that these vile policies are opposed - but the fact the Tories aren’t even true to their own rotten principles just solidifies my contempt for the whole party. The Lib Dems don’t pull crap like that - they may not have a clue where they stand on any issue, but when they DO finally have a policy, they stand by it.