Lower living standards, higher taxes, puny economic growth and job rights of galley slaves – no wonder the Conservatives lie, confuse and divert.
Anything to divert people from the grim truth is the shameless tactic of a failing Tory Government with an atrocious record.
Behind the crocodile tears we see now it was warned in advance that Dubai-based P&O planned to instantly dismiss 800 crew.
And what did it do? Instead of blasting the scam out of the water, Department of Transport officials tried to justify the piracy.
Tomorrow's emergency Parliamentary vote piloted by Labour will show us whose side Conservative MPs are really on.
Multi-millionaire Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s cringing Lady Bountiful act is the calculated deception of a record tax raiser posing as a cutter. Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ counted 15 rises in two years but Sunak’s hoping the prospect of a few pennies off petrol – he’s grabbed a £3-billion VAT windfall from soaring fuel prices – will switch eyes from £12bn National Insurance hikes and £21bn Income Tax increases.
Condescendingly patting on the head with one hand, this slave driver whips viciously with the other.
And then there’s a Prime Minister who looked a 16-stone tub of duplicity waddling on Blackpool beach at the weekend. Unprincipled Boris Johnson demonstrated unfitness for high office and made enemies of friends by likening Ukrainian resistance to Putin’s invasion to Brexit.
The free vote to leave a European family of nations that Ukraine’s heroic leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, is desperate to join isn’t remotely comparable to an unprovoked aggression by a Putin who incidentally cheered Brexit.
Brexit also cleaved Britain in half while Ukraine is united, yet this isn’t about common sense, facts or truth.
Poisonous Johnson spouts bile to divide and rule, viewing Britain as a land of knuckle scrapers and reactionaries.
Treating people with contempt gives Johnson much in common with P&O’s marauders.
What the company did should be criminal.
That a Conservative Government doesn’t stop them is criminal.
