David Cameron: Supporting Oppression & Proud Of It!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1359712/It-wrong-sell-arms-says-David-Cameron-defends-sale-weapons-Middle-East.html

Timing is not this cretin's strong suit.

How in *fuck* can you generally be a supporter of this guy? He's slashing and burning across the board, he's about to cut the throat of the NHS, he's in thrall to big business and his cabinet is made up of the worst kind of Tory cronies and rightwing, kick-the-poor assholes. In this instance, it's his anger and impatience with the the notion that *gasp!* the government brokering arms deals in the MIddle East might not be a great idea.

And yeah, arms sold to Kuwait are totally going to stay in Kuwait and never find their way across any borders.

So the way to improve the NHS is to hand the budget over to GPs and encourage said budget to be used on private healthcare providers? Shutting maternity units? Gutting NHS hospitals? They want to turn the NHS into just another private provider looking to turn a profit. Healthcare should never be dictated by the bottom line. And what of personal morality seeping into these GPs' decision making processes? Or the abolition of targets that will leave people waiting indefinitely for treatment?

Universities are now in the process of becoming the province of the super-rich. If you want a university education, you'd better have a small fortune or be willing to spend the rest of your working life paying it off.

80% of Tory donations come from the city. The Tories refuse to get serious with regulation. The corporate tax rates are a joke. The 20% VAT hike is crippling family budgets. All the while a man with no real financial experience, huge expenses claims, a family fortune of tens of millions and nary a days' real work in his life is in charge of the country's finances.

And that's the problem with the Tories. They are all insulated from real life. They're old money. They do not, cannot understand or give a shit about those at the bottom of the ladder. They demonise all benefit claimants. Their donors and MPs regularly make ridiculous public statements that bely the Tory base's disdain for the average man (Lord Young, Anthony Steen, Alan Duncan, Howard Flight). Every independent study conducted of their budget plans concludes that the poorest will be hit the hardest. They simply have not changed since the Thatcher days - all they've done is put a veneer of compassion over their old odious ideas. And "big society", that absurd Libertarian pipedream of people picking up and covering all the stuff that the Government no longer wants to do, is the biggest crock of all.

And better than Tony Blair? The prime minister who introduces the minimum wage, who pulled the NHS back from the stinking brink where the Tories left it, who led the debate on climate change, who worked with the EU instead of demonising it? This wet-behind-the-eats government has bested that in their ten months in power, have they? Or is this based upon the Iraq War, a war that would've been conducted with even more vigour and carelessness had it been under a conservative government?

How is £9,000 a year for higher education not for the super-rich?

I get the impression that you'd be happy if the NHS ceased to exist, so I don't think we're ever going to agree.

And the NHS has improved MASSIVELY from the shambles it was when Labour won in '97.

I'd say Osbourne dismissing the 50% tax bracket for the highest earners is evidence of his wealth clouding his judgement. God forbid those on silly money pay a little extra when the country's finances are in the toilet - better to cut the services commonly used by the poorest members of society, right? And of course, the Tory's much-publicised stance against the estate tax, a tax which affects perhaps 5% of the population and yet which was treated as one of the most important issues for voters to get outraged about during the election.

Hats off for glossing over the city concerns and the poorest being hit the hardest, too. A true Tory to the last!

It pisses me off that every time stuff like the points I listed above gets  brought up, Cameron supporters clam up and refuse to acknowledge it.