Tory Politicians

No, I'm not going to make a joke of Tory politicians. I don't need to. They do that quite well themselves.

First, there was the one appointed to work in Northern Ireland who didn't realise that people there vote along sectarian lines. In a great twist of fate, she had a gloriously Irish name.

Then there was the one parachuted in from Westminster who hadn't actually read the Good Friday Agreement - kinda crucial if you're going to have anything to do with Northern Ireland.

Then along came the one in charge of brexit who hadn't understood that the UK needs ports to export goods from and that these are quite often to be found on the south coast of England.

There was also the one who thought being English entitled you to Irish citizenship.

And the one who insisted - not once but repeatedly - that the UK did not benefit from US aid after world war 2 but went it alone. Plucky little England.

Then we had the prime minister whose memory often fails her, so she will lie and lie about what decisions she and her government have taken over brexit and is surprised when alert politicians of other parties pick her up on them. 

And, of course, let's not forget the Home Secretary who admitted that her flagship 'universal credit' was causing hardship but had no plan to make the situation of the poorest in society any better.

Let's not forget the one who has got used to spending his time in Westminster ignoring everything that goes on around him and settles for objecting to Alan Turing getting a pardon, pretending women don't need protection from 'upskirting' and preventing girls being protected from female genital mutilation. On a point of principle. Of course.

And the snowflake who took exception to Donald Tusk's comments about Tory politicians.

I'm not even looking at the Tory minister who didn't know the minimum wage.

If you check out these people on Wikipedia, you find they have often had the benefit of a private school education (public school if you're from England). And a lot of them have been to Oxford or Cambridge, so presumably have had a good higher education too. Many of them also have pots of money, mostly earned in 'The City.'

My own interpretation is that the Tory benches of Westminster are packed full of absolute chancers  and have been for centuries. It's where you send your boy if he isn't bright enough to go into the Church of England. These are people who, in the words of my grandad, know the cost of everything but the value of nothing. If we get nothing else from the brexit fiasco (other than years of poverty for a lot of us) maybe the Tory 'squires from the shires' will finally get the heave from Westminster and a new group of people with skills based on ability rather than background and connections will take over.

The Tories could do a lot worse than have a look at the rising stars of non-Westminster politics:
like Leo Varadkar, Mary Lou MacDonald and Nicola Sturgeon:

                                      

                                   

But they won't. They have clung on to power for centuries now, happy to send to Westminster people the rest of us (to quote Michael Russell) wouldn't send for the messages.

Hell, as we say in Glasgow, whack in inty them. Just as long as Scotland doesn't have to live with this fiasco.