The Tory Party:

10 years of pointless and vindictive social dressed up as austerity
accompanied by a transfer of wealth from the poorest to the richest

A referendum designed for internal party management which has turned the UK into a political basket case
4 years of cakeism, lies, deceit, ambition, jingoistic red lines & chicanery in pursuit of an unrealistic version of Brexit w/ Tory politicians could not agree on and whose implications they didn’t understand.

4 years to prepare for the economic consequences of these outcomes
4 years of playing chicken with the EU & recklessly endangering the jobs & livelihoods of millions

4 years of the two worst governments in UK history

1 year in which the absolute worst government was elected on the basis of an ‘oven-ready’ agreement w/ it has since reneged on
Now less than 1 month to go and still no consensus in the government or the party about what Brexit it wants or how it intends to deal with the disastrous consequences of a poor deal or no deal.

A government still ducking and diving and speaking with forked tongue
A government whose catastrophic mismanagement of the covid pandemic has produced a death toll of 75, 000 while engaging in rampant cronyism & corruption

A cruel, inept government led by a joker-braggart mini-Trump that has become increasingly unaccountable and devoid of decency
All this was brought to you by the Tory Party, one of the most successful electoral machines in the world, a party that ultimately ruined the country it claims to serve, and has become a friend only to itself, and the enemy of decency, morality, and any notion of the common good.
*social cruelty*...sigh

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