The week the Tory’s showed their true disdain for the working class

In the callous and thorn wrapped worlds of politics and news I will give you two examples of how the Torys show their true disdain for the working class. It’s an age-old trope I know but I don’t think they have dared to be this blatant with it since before the working class was even allowed to vote. The first is of a woman selling her house for a Foughty six-thousand-pound profit. Stop the presses I hear you say!! This is news! Granted Its not nearly as exciting as when Jeremy Hunt avoided stamp duty by exploiting a Tory tax loop hole at the cost of a whopping one hundred-thousand-pound in the bulk purchase of six luxury properties, it’s also not as exciting as when Suella Braverman claimed an eye watering twenty-five-thousand pounds of taxpayer money to pay her house hold bills over five years, all while she was living at her parents’ house. I won’t go into the whole fiasco of her allegedly trying to claim her speeding ticket on the expense bill as well. There are so many examples of the Tory government over the last 14 years being involved in scandal after scandal, untold levels of corruption, creed and contempt for the struggles and hardship of the normal working-class people that they are supposed to serve so why is a woman selling a house such a big story for the media? Well, this woman is Angela Rayner, and she sold her two-bedroom council house that she purchased with Thatcher’s right to by scheme, again I hear you ask why is this such a big deal? Well, there is a debate about whether she should have paid capital gains tax but all in all that's probably just noise created by the Tory election strategist team but I don't know for sure. What i do know for sure is that it is two things a contradiction and a distraction. It’s a contradiction in the sense that we are supposed to be outraged that a politician has made a profit from selling a property, but the difference Angela is a working-class politician she hasn’t done anything different that many other working class people have done before her but can we really say that normal working class people have the opportunity to buy multiple luxury properties and then avoid paying the tax on them? Do normal working-class people get to earn an eighty-thousand pound plus salary off the taxpayer and then claim their bills on top? No, we don’t, normal people get shamed for claiming universal credit to top up their wages or told they are gaming the system if they claim disability benefits. They say Angela is a hypocrite because she said she wants to reform social housing and has criticised selling off council houses, but the criticism is that they where not replaced which has massively contributed to the housing crises we have now. This story is simply to try and make the public angry at one for the few politicians from a working-class background that wants to make life better for the working class of today. I have many criticisms of Starmer’s labour party, but Angela Rayner is probably the most authentic representations of the working class that we have had in politics for a long time, and the Torys hate this which brings me to my second story.

Their disdain for the working class has no boundaries it seems as they show that they are willing to damage their own party ranks by removing the whip from Lee Anderson. As much as I hate to say this lee Anderson is also probably one of the most authentic representations of the working class in politics today just one that would join the Tory’s, this is an unfortunate fact but still a fact none the less. We all probably know or have known someone like him the old casually racist guy in the pub or the guy at work that thinks the younger generation is too lazy too obsessed with Netflix and their iPhone to be able to budget properly and that’s why they are poor and can’t buy a house. I know a lot of people will hate me saying this, but the working class do have very broad and mixed political views and some of those are Andersons views. And this leads me to my point Anderson was removed for remarks about Sadiq khan giving London away to Islamists “his mates” now that is abhorrently untrue, Islamophobic and have the potential to encourage racially motivated attacks on Muslims, for this lee should be nowhere near parliament ever. However, this isn’t the reason that they sacked him because the genuinely don’t care about what he said. If they did then why does Braverman still have the whip? I don’t think that racism should ever be treated as a competition, however it would it really surprise us if in some dark corner of a Tory party event that there are contests where they see who can draw the best swastika and who can recite the most paragraphs of Mein Kampf from memory? given the multiple Tory MPs that have at one point or another said something or should something on twitter that is in doubt racist is it a far stretch from the imagination? However I digress I would argue Braverman has been and has said the most dangerous things when it comes to racism to the point that she was challenged by an actual Holocaust survivor. It really says something about the Tory’s when they attack two of the most prominent working-class MP’s (one being from their own party) for things that they allow the wealthy ones to get away with in silence. Let’s face it Braverman should never have been allowed back near government after sharing confidential information to another college from her personal email when she was the home secretary under Liz Truss. It just shows how expandable they see the working class. At the 2019 election the Tory’s won working-class seats that they had never in their wildest dreams thought that they could ever win, and they broke every single promise that they gave them at the election. I hope that removing the whip from Anderson is the final straw for any working-class Tory that may still be thinking of voting for them again at the next election. I want to be clear; I can’t stand lee at all and in no way condone what he said about khan or anything that comes out his mouth to be honest, but if he was wealthy, I don’t believe they would have taken the whip from him, there have been numerous calls for Braverman to be sacked and yet she remains.

The conservative party still lives in its traditions and beliefs of wealth being a birth right of power, it doesn’t matter how badly you abuse that power because its rightfully theirs anyway. Boris Johnson burning a fifty-pound note in front of a homeless man back in the good old days of the Bullingdon club is sadly the symbol of not only the Conservative party but as the UK as a whole now and they will do anything to keep it that way.