Bad week for the Tories - Attack Jeremy Corbyn

Friday, 25 March 2016

Bad week for the Tories - Attack Jeremy Corbyn

In the wake of George Osborne's March 2016 Budget of Failure the Tory party endured the worst week they've had had since the Lib-Dems enabled them back into power in 2010.

A bad week for the Tories

Here are just a few things that went wrong for them:

Before Osborne's budget of failure was even announced a poll revealed that Tory austerity is the least popular it's ever been.

George Osborne had to admit that he'd failed to achieve two of the three economic golden rules he set for himself, and his own pet thinktank (the OBR) admitted that he only has a 50-50 chance of achieving the third.

Labour immediately condemned the Tory budget as having "unfairness at its very core" because it planned to impoverish hundreds of thousands of disabled people whilst handing out lavish tax cuts to corporations, the asset rich and high earners.

Iain Duncan Smith resigned from the government claiming that the disability cuts were indefensible. If the cuts are apparently enough to horrify a callous monster like Iain Duncan Smith, then it's clear that they must be absolutely brutal.

The Tories had to U-turn on hugely unpopular their plan to impoverish disabled people within days of announcing it, leaving a £4.4 billion hole in their budget.

David Cameron and George Osborne managed to dig out a dangerously inappropriate and unqualified replacement called Stephen Crabb. It was soon revealed that he had close links to a bunch of homophobic "gay cure" religious nutters and absolutely no idea about the impact of the welfare cuts he'd just voted in favour of.

It was revealed that George Osborne had tried to hide a plan to rip off the taxpayer by £22 billion by selling the government stake in RBS for only about half of what was paid for it.

The Home Secretary had one of her deportation schemes condemned by a tribunal as being built upon totally unscientific hearsay. She will now have to explain herself in front of a parliamentary inquiry.

The Tory candidate for Mayor of London was forced to resign as patron of a disability charity after voting to impoverish people who are too unwell to work by £1,500 per year.

The massive scale of public opposition to the Tory plan to force privatise every school in England became clear when two separate petitions against it passed 100,000 signatures within a week! [petition one] [petition 2]

A poll revealed Labour had overtaken the Tories for the first time since Jeremy Corbyn was elected as Labour Party leader.

Another poll revealed a 10% improvement in Jeremy Corbyn's approval ratings and a 10% decline in David Cameron's.

Attack Corbyn

Given this catalogue of failures, it might have been fair to assume that the mainstream press might actually begin to question David Cameron's leadership, but the mainstream media narrative was quickly set that Jeremy Corbyn was the real failure of the week for apparently not attacking the Tories effectively enough!

Pretty soon online discussion threads were filled with people spouting this feeble narrative as if the thoughts were their own, rather than some absolute drivel they'd rote learned from the right-wing press and mindlessly regurgitated as if it was their own opinion. However, if people actually listened to some of the responses from Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Angela Eagle this week they'd have heard strong criticisms of the Tories that the likes of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls never managed to deliver.

Spurned Blairites

The biggest problem for Jeremy Corbyn remains the pathetic crowd of spurned Blairites who, even this week, have been feeding anti-Corbyn stories to the mainstream press. Even when the Tory party is visibly imploding, the spurned Blairites are far more interested in attacking Corbyn than they are in attacking the Tories!

Hypocritically, the main focus of their foolish self-destructive attacks on Jeremy Corbyn are that he's apparently "not good enough at attacking the Tories". Well, even if you don't think Jeremy Corbyn has done as well as he could have done - at least he was actually attacking the Tories, unlike the spurned Blairite crowd who are still clearly far more intent on tearing the Labour Party apart, even in the worst week this Tory government has ever endured, than actually criticising the Tories.

Conclusion

The UK has the most right-wing press in Europe, so it's no surprise whatever that they've once again jumped in to try to save their golden boy George Osborne from the absolute mauling he so clearly deserves with pathetically contrived attacks on Jeremy Corbyn.

What is more worrying is that even during the most catastrophic week the Tories have endured in years, there are still crowds of pathetic spurned Blairites willing to feed anti-Corbyn stories to the press rather than concentrate of attacking the Tories. With a party full of self-defeating backstabbers like that, it seems pretty unlikely that Jeremy Corbyn will ever be able to defeat the Tories, even if he continues to up his game.

Another worrying factor is the sheer number of mindless rote-learners out there who are ever so happy to soak up the latest feeble "blame Corbyn" narrative, and repeat it as if it's their own opinion. It just goes to show what a shocking level public discourse has declined to that people would not only allow themselves to be convinced that it was Jeremy Corbyn who had a bad week, not David Cameron, but also to go around trying to convince other people to believe in such transparent gibberish too.

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