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(It’s not satire – it’s the nasty party)
We’ve all heard nasty quotes from Tories such as “Hang Mandela“, “The homeless are what you step over when you come out of the opera” etc etc which prove just how nasty the nasty party really can be. But those quotes are all pre-Cameron – who likes to claim his party has changed.
Well, here are a selection of quotes from Tories from the Cameron era which prove the nasty party is alive and kicking and just as nasty as ever:
1) Hugh Jackson- Tory councillor in North Tyneside – suggested euthanasia was a good way to reduce the costs of looking after disabled children.
2) Steve Hilton - senior adviser to David Cameron and Tory strategy director – said the government should boost economic growth by abolishing all working mothers’ maternity leave and rights.
3) Iain Duncan Smith – Tory Work and Pensions Secretary – quoted the Nazi slogan above the gates of Auschwitz Arbeit Mach Frei (work makes free) when he said about the government’s workfare programme that “work actually helps free people.”
4) Iain Duncan Smith again - this time on how ‘lazy’ disabled workers are: “Is it a kindness to stick people in some factory where they are not doing any work at all? Just making cups of coffee?”
5) Philippa Stroud – senior Tory strategist and adviser to Iain Duncan Smith – said that poverty, sexual abuse and homosexuality are caused by demonic possession. In her book “God’s Heart for the Poor” she blames the death of a poor girl living in a hostel on the fact she “hadn’t the will to stick with” being a Christian and so God “was calling her home”.
6) Boris Johnson – Tory Mayor of London - on same sex marriage: ”If gay marriage was OK … then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.”
7) Chris Steward - a Conservative councillor in York – said people shouldn’t donate food to food banks because poor families “can’t budget” and if they were given food would only have “more money to spend on alcohol, cigarettes etc“.
8) David Jones – Tory MP and Welsh Secretary – obviously thinks LGBT people are not “safe” for bringing up children: “I regard marriage as an institution that has developed over many centuries, essentially for the provision of a warm and safe environment for the upbringing of children, which is clearly something that two same-sex partners can’t do.”
9) Richard Powell - Tory councillor and campaign manager for Tory MP Conor Burns – was temporarily suspended as a councillor but then reinstated after he admitted sending racist jokes from his phone which targetted Muslims, Indians, Irish people, Pakistanis and black people.
10) Philip Davies – Tory MP for Shipley - thinks disabled people should take “a lower rate of pay” than the minimum wage to “help them get on their first rung of the jobs ladder” because that is the “real world we live in”.
11) Christopher Chope – Tory MP for Christchurch – regards people like waiters and waitresses as servants. Talking about a visit to a House of Commons restaurant he said: “The service was absolutely fantastic because there was three-to-one service – three servants for each person sitting down“.
12) Peter Chapman – a Tory councillor in Dorset – complained on Facebook about the “terminally slow (and bad) service from the bone idle bitches at Costa Dorchester” and said the waitresses: “all need a good beating”.
13) Bob Blackman – Tory MP for Harrow East – said he thought the Tory’s infamous Section 28 law that banned teachers from talking about homosexuality should be brought back: “Section 28 was the right rules to have in school so that we should not in any way shape or form promote same-sex relationships…“
14) David Cameron – Tory member for Witney – when talking about the bedroom tax, said that ”Anyone with severely disabled children is exempt from the spare room subsidy”. This is particularly nasty because it’s a downright lie – as this article shows:
Bedroom tax shock: Disabled boy may have to go into CARE despite David Cameron’s pledge
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If there are any particularly nasty Tory quotes you think I should have included, please put them in the comments below and I’ll do an update.
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Possibly the most disturbing piece I’ve read in a long time Tom; all the more because you could go on and on!
A bone chilling list. Mentalities of psychopaths with no empathy for other human beings.
I think Iain Duncan Smith’s nastiness stems from the fact that he and work were never closely acquainted. He was exposed as being economical with the truth on his CV (Probably sat around drinking espressos/coffee)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/12_december/19/newsnight_ids_cv.shtml
If you took away all his money (he married it) he’d probably collapse in a snivelling heap. In fact I think they all have a deluded sense of power because they have money they’ve never worked for.
Surprisingly similar to comments from Beppe Grillo in Italy … must be the anarcho-capitalism in them all. A lot of commentators are noting the similarities between current events and the early part of the 20thC .. including renewed attacks against the disabled, unions, race, homosexuality, women and so on… Perhaps we should revoke Godwin’s law and speak out openly about the possibility of fascism underlying these Tory comments.
http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2013/3/10/the-ultimate-threat-in-the-euro-bailout-and-austerity-racket.html
http://think-left.org/2013/03/11/beppe-grillo-a-salutary-reminder-of-the-price-of-freedom/
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Excellent Blog
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After at least 60 years of communist rule, the most deliberate and malicious subversion of the ‘British way of Life’ – I mean the LabConLib scam –
Mr Cameron wrote: “Not for the first time, I found myself thinking that it is mainstream Britain which needs to integrate more with the British Asian way of life, not the other way around.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/may/13/comment.communities
“We estimate that £5 billion is being lost this
way [through benefi t fraud] each year.”49
Chancellor of the Exchequer, House of Commons 20 October
2010
Despite Chancellor George Osborne’s claim in the
Commons, the correct fi gure for benefi t fraud was at the
time £1.6 billion50. The £5 billion fi gure was reached by
combining the fraud fi gure with that for errors made by
government as well as claimants.
The latest (2011/12) fi gures for welfare fraud across
the benefi t and tax credit system show a fi gure of
£1.9 billion, which is less than the amount underpaid
to claimants because of errors, giving an historically
low fraud rate of 0.9%53. The estimated fraud rate for
taxation54 is around four to seven times higher. If you are
looking for fraud, a tax return is much a better place to
look than a benefi t statement.
“…why we got into such problem
in debt and the defi cit was that in
chasing the [Child Poverty] target it
got more and more diffi cult and more
and more money had to be spent.”
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan
Smith, Today Programme, 14 June 2012
Iain Duncan Smith’s claim that the
country’s defi cit was caused by a
desire to meet the target for reducing
child poverty would be laughable
if it wasn’t so deep rooted in our
myths about poverty. The belief that
the defi cit was caused because of
spending on welfare (and therefore
that welfare spending must be
reduced in order to shrink the defi cit)
is worryingly common. To blame the
poor, not only for their poverty but
also for the nation’s austerity, is both
unfair and untrue.
Great point.Also, Ian Smith (the ‘Duncan’ is an ordinary middle name-another bit of fraud there) seems hardly articulate in your quote.He often gets in a mess defending policies.They’re indefensible.
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The so-called “real word” (of discrimination and hate) is what we have fought hard to over time. These Tories are libertarians and it should scare the shiiiiz out of us all.
Bit silly really – for every 15 Tory quotes you could easily come up with 15 no less nasty Labour* or Lib Dem ones, or from other parties too – this blog gets far too partisan for political satire.
(* The quote from John O’Farrell wishing Mrs Thatcher had died is the most obvious example).
Sam – who on earth said political satire shouldn’t be partisan? You’re getting mixed up with journalism. Political satire should be extremely partisan.
As for labour or lib dem nasty quotes – if you can find 14 good ones for Lab or LibDems you’re quite within your right to write your own blog post using them. And if you write the blog really well – you might even get one or two people reading it. And if you write it really really well – you might even get someone making a critical comment about it.
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Quotes show them for who/what they are…
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It’s not satire, it’s how they really think!
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Well done Tom! My mind boggles with the thought that British people stupid enough to vote for any of these sad excuses for shit stained underpants. I wouldn’t expose my family to anyone who talked like that and I certainly wouldn’t consent for them to run my country. Such a same the British political system is so broken the electorate don’t really have a choice in who governs them. Okay, yeah. You can vote for the arsehole you like best but the end result is the same. You still vote in an arsehole.