Thread by @MattCarr55

Conventional wisdom has is that voters should never be blamed, only politicians. As if voters are inherently virtuous.

They aren't. And what I see now is politicians & voters reinforcing each others' worst instincts and working together to turn UK politics into a moral vacuum

To put another way. If you voted Tory yesterday you don't care that tens of thousands of people have died who needn't have died if the government had acted more quickly and managed the pandemic more coherently

You're not bothered that the virus was effectively seeded in care homes, that billions of pounds have been siphoned up in NHS procurement contracts that produced inferior outcomes, that a Test & Trace system has never worked, despite the vast sums thrown at it

You don't care about the corruption of the government of the despicable and brazen serial dishonesty of the disgusting fraud who is our PM, who lies even as he breathes. You don't care that the Brexit deal wasn't the done deal that he said it was.

You're not bothered by the devastating impact of Brexit on the fishing industry & so many other sectors, or by the riots in NI, by the gov's breaches of international law, its belligerence & arrogance w/ has alienated countries that used to be trusted partners and once trusted us

You aren't concerned by the shocking rise in foodbanks -entirely a response to Tory policy. Of course you're not bothered by the cruelty of the government's treatment of migrants, or the distress into which so many EU nationals were plunged as a result of Brexit.

None of that disturbs you. Not the way your country looks from the outside, or the way it treats the most vulnerable people inside it. Only the vaccine management program - a heroic effort managed by an NHS ravaged by Tory cuts and exhausted from 14 months dealing with covid

- A program dependent on the volunteers who have turned out day after day since January to make it possible despite, not because of, the arrogant monstrosities who are taking responsibility for it. None of this had any impact on your decision to go out yesterday and vote Tory

There were other choices, but you choose the one that is suffocating the country and sucking the last marrow of decency from it, so that you could sit in a pub again, or go shopping, or because 'that Boris is a cheekie chappie' and a real character!

And 'wokeness' and 'liberal elites' and statues Meghan Markle and too many immigrants and the EU pushing us around, and what about 'our' history. That's the game the Bullingdon Boys wanted you to play, and you joined in.

Obviously you thought this would benefit you, but if you are below a certain income level, it really won't, and when you go out into the country with your vaccines to have that pint and celebrate the defeat of the woke elites, remember that the government you are applauding

...doesn't give a damn about anyone except those who eat from its hand, and it will betray you just as it betrays everyone. And know also that you have encouraged it to be even worse and even more brazen that it has already been,

because you've shown that it can get away with anything, and it no longer even has to pretend to be decent or honest. Smile now at that thought, maybe have a little smirk, but this terrible and morally incontinent decision will speed our collective moral and political decline

And by the time you realise that it's going to affect you too, not just the 'elites' you hated, it will be too late to do anything about it.