Tory Bastards

Flee the country. It's the only solution, as far as I can see. A week of the Tory Party conference has left me even more depressed and despairing than Google's ongoing trashing of the web, (the number of small site owners giving up in the face of Google's capping of their traffic is shocking). Anyone who still doubted that the Tories were evil bastards must surely have had their eyes opened after the last few days. Don't try and delude yourself that the likes of Theresa May and her hatred of the very concept of human rights is an aberration. Sadly, she represents the mainstream of Tory 'thought'. You only had to listen to 'Gorgeous' George Osborne's speech to realise that - this is the man whose prescription for economic recovery involves stripping away yet more of workers' rights, particularly those to do with unfair dismissal.

You see, these bastards don't believe in the concept of 'human rights - that is, that there should be certain basic rights which the simple fact of being human confers upon us, and that these should be enshrined in law so as to govern the way we treat each other and the way the state treats us. These are people who see themselves as an elite, the natural ruling class. As far as they are concerned, the only rights you can have are those they allow you to have. And you should be grateful for those. It is a throwback to the days when monarchs claimed to rule by divine right and, consequently, were able to wield their power arbitrarily. People think I'm joking or exaggerating when I say that this government wants to take us back to that kind of feudal society, where workers are effectively chattels, their livelihoods dependent upon the whims of the rich. But the evidence was all there at the Tory conference, embodied in attitudes towards rights displayed by the likes of May and Osborne. Be afraid. Be very afraid.