The Extremists In British Politics

Kevin Maguire writes:

So what did the Tories do during Labour’s leadership battle?

The extremists in British politics are the Conservatives swerving far to the Right of Maggie Thatcher.

Turning Britain into a chumocracy by axing 50 elected MPs after stuffing the House of Cronies with sugar daddies, lovers and ballot box rejects would complete Cameron’s coup.

Power to the people in this Tory revolution means the obscenely wealthy spivs and speculators who bankrolled the party’s power grab, as working people and the ­disabled pick up the tab.

Welfare axeman Iain Duncan Smith hammered another nail in satire’s coffin by spouting nasty gibberish about a supposed “sickness benefit culture” in the gilded offices of Barclays Wealth – a beneficiary both directly and indirectly of billions squandered on a ­corporate welfare, from tax gifts to bailouts.

Islamic State’s beheader-in-chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi can quote the IDS precedent should he seek an invitation to address a feminist meeting or the International Red Cross.

The Tories exploit Labour’s ­introspection and the fury of potential losers in the leadership race.

They denounce Jeremy Corbyn for exciting a social movement instead of themselves energising voters, portraying themselves as sensible moderates on the central ground and Labour a party about to be led by an extremist.

It is a gigantic propaganda lie and Labour either pulls itself together and exposes the truth or the party will go down divided. 

It will never to be forgiven if it favours civil war over fighting the Tories – whether Corbyn, Cooper, Burnham or Kendall is crowned leader.

Because cutting inheritance tax for the richer is obscene, not fair, when the kids of a few wealthy families will stand on the shoulders of the disabled. 

George Osborne’s invention of a pay rise that reduces the incomes of millions of low-paid families is the financial trickery of a Con-man.

Dictators would blush at the shackling of workers in trade unions, planned by a party in the pocket of Mayfair hedge funds seeking a green light to buy firms and cut wages or axe staff.

Conservative broken promises are piling up, from caring for the vulnerable to childcare.

The Government’s repeated missing of his own noxious immigration target is a lethal combination of failure, inadequacy, fears and smears.

So Cameron, not Corbyn, is the dangerous extremist in British politics.