Selfish Voter Tearful On Question Time As Selfishness Backfires

Unsurprisingly some sections of Britain are beginning to wake up to the Conservatives ideological war on the working class. A war where the Bourgeois, the aspiring Bourgeois, and their enablers within the structures of state power, are systematically attacking the foundations of a compassionate society. Correction, the bare minimum requirements for any society that even pretends to care about its most unfortunate and downtrodden members. Those unequivocally failed by capitalism, the working class. It is simply a class war.

The moment that has triggered myself to write about this, the moment that has made me realise that people may finally be understanding that the word Conservative could be shortened by sevens letters to Cunts, was a woman on Question Time being visibly upset by the cuts she voted in support of. Admittedly, she did not vote for the cuts to Working Tax Credits, but she did vote for cuts to spending on those in need. Six of one and all that.

The woman affected by the cuts, Michelle Dorrell, confronted the Conservative minister, Amber Rudd, with an emotional response to how the cuts would affect her. She said "I voted Conservatives originally because I thought you were going to be the better for me and my children, you're about the cut Tax Credits after promising you wouldn't. I work bloody hard for my money, to provide for my children, to give them everything they've got, and you're gonna take it away from me and them. I can hardly afford the rent I have to pay, I can hardly afford the bills I've gotta do, and you're gonna take more from me... Shame on you!"

Normally I would enjoy seeing a Conservative minister so flustered, with the exception of the explicitly racist right wing parties, there are few people I despise more in politics than every single Conservative voter and politician. On this occasion, however, I find myself more infuriated by the woman who said she is going to be affected by these changes to Tax Credits. It seems she knew what she was doing when voting for them. A quote from the Torygraph Telegraph reveals that she considers herself to be "politically minded and opinionated", suggesting a knowledge of Conservative ideology. That ideology primarily consisting of the opinion that as long as you are all right then it is okay for everyone else to suffer. That is, undoubtedly, what she knowingly voted for because it has been the essence of Conservative propaganda since time immemorial. It should not have been a surprise. They are called the nasty party for a reason.

The Conservatives did not keep their wish to continue their aggressive campaign of sustained class war secret from the British public. They continuously spouted their Bourgeois propaganda about 'making work pay' and 'getting Britain working' whilst labelling those unfortunate to be on benefits 'Shrikers' and ending the 'something-for-nothing culture' and ignoring the cause of unemployment, namely a lack of secure jobs! 

They were in their first five years relentlessly merciless in their attacks on the poor and underprivileged in Britain. Shockingly so when you consider that they were reigned in, very slightly, by the cuddly Nick 'sorry' Clegg.

Between 2010 and 2015 the Conservative/Conservative coalition oversaw cuts of unthinkable proportions, except by those with the compassion of a serial killer or human rights abuser *cough*, and they were not content with that level of spending cuts alone. 

They made no secret of the cuts they were planning to introduce. On every possible occasion during their election campaign they made a promise to the sociopaths in Britain that they would cut the benefit bill by £18 billion per year until 2018. The Labour party (not that they were much better) even warned the public that Working Tax Credits would be hit, despite David Cameron's assertion that he would not, under any circumstances, think of touching that benefit.

She even alluded to the fact that she could not care less about the effect the class warfare was having upon the rest of those hit by the extremist ideology she knowingly supported. In her short time under the microphone she embodied the key defining characteristic of any statement about economic policy by a Thatcherite. The perpetual deployment of narcissistic language to explain her motivations. Simply put, she did not care about the lives of others when marking X on the ballot, perhaps whilst repeating the neo-liberal mantra that "Greed is Good". She cared only for herself.

By buying into the Conservative rhetoric that she was more deserving of the means to an existence on this island, namely the ability to feed and shelter herself in comfort, than the poorer sections of society she has shot herself in the foot. Countless others are beginning to wake up with that realisation also. Unfortunately, that has come too late for many of the Tories victims and it has probably come too late for her. Unless Hell forecasts snow in the near future I shall not be holding my breath.