(It's not satire - it's the Lib
Dems!)
Everyone seems to have forgotten the
fact, but Cameron failed to get an overall majority at the last election. So -
in theory - he can't push through his party's manifesto and do whatever he
wants.
Because everything - but
everything - the coalition has done and is doing has only been made
possible by the Liberal Democrats. It is in their power to stop any decision
made by Cameron and his cabinet of Eton cronies - it's just that they choose not
to exercise that power.
These are the worst coalition policies
(in my opinion) which have only been made possible by the Liberal Democrat
Party:
Top Tory Oliver Letwin famously said that
the
NHS would cease to exist within 5 years of a Tory government. And sure
enough that's exactly what has happened. Except we don't have a Tory government.
The Tory's plans to privatise the NHS were only made possible by the Lib Dems -
who enthusiastically voted with the Tories to end Aneurin Bevan's 55 year old
dream.
Nobody was all that surprised when Tory
chancellor George Osborne announced tax cuts for the rich. After all, that's
what Tory governments do. Except we're not supposed to have a Tory
government. Osborne was only able to help his ultra-wealthy friends with support
from the Lib Dems. And this was after they also allowed Osborne to raise VAT for
everyone else. Because the ultra-rich don't pay UK VAT on their lobster dinners
served on a luxury yacht off the coast of Florida. Do they?
Even top Lib Dem Shirley
Williams is now regretting this awful policy. So why did the Lib Dems
support it? And why are they still supporting it? The Lib Dems could force the
government to drop this today. But they don't. Why?
4) Secret Courts
The Liberal Democrats were supposed to be
the party of civil liberties. So how come they supported the government's policy
of allowing secret court hearings. You know - the Kafkaesque idea that a judge
and a government representative can meet without you or your legal
representative and decide if you're guilty or not of something without even
having to tell you what you've been accused of. Not very
liberal that. Or democratic. But supported by the so-called Liberal Democrats
all the same.
5) Raising
tuition fees, selling off school playing fields, cutting education
budget
Obviously Tories want education to be
expensive. It helps their own children if the best education can only be bought.
Less competition than if all the plebs get to be well-educated too, you see? So
why do we have a thoroughly Tory education policy in place? We don't actually
have a Tory government. Or do we?
6) The demonisation of
immigrants, the unemployed, the sick, the disabled and the poor
Tories like to go on and on and bloody on
about how the country would be better off if we could only get rid of
those waves of bloody immigrants swamping the country and stop all those bloody
lazy scroungers on welfare. Obviously, the reality is that so-called welfare
or benefit tourism is a myth and welfare fraud is around 0,6% of all benefit
claims. Tax fraud on the other hand - including tax avoidance - is estimated to
cost the UK hundreds of billions a year.
Tories never of course like to mention
tax fraud, presumably in case they end up incriminating themselves and their
mates.
But it's OK because fortunately we have a
coalition government - we don't have an unconstrained right-wing Tory government
in power attacking and demonising the weakest members of society while at the
same time giving handouts to help their rich and powerful party donors.
Or do we?
