What strikes me about this story by Aditya Chakrabortty in The Guardian is how long it’s taken for people to realise what being done to them. How much suffering did Michelle Dorrell have to endured before she woke up? The sad fact is, the Tories were pushing ahead with the same policies when she “voted for them last time”.
How many others, like Michelle Dorrell, have voted and will continue to vote against their own interests? The blessing and the curse of her realisation is that she had to go through so much hardship before realising.
The Conservative Party are doing what neoliberal government’s have been doing for decades, concentrating “wealth, power and opportunity in ever-fewer hands”.
If this country is a horse, a massive “Boxer” of a horse, instead of rewarding his efforts with food, water, and care, the Tories have strung him up, cut his throat, and are watching while he empties of blood. The next step for Boxer is the glue factory. They want to wring every last penny from him.
I hope Michelle Dorrell is right, that the “Tories are screwed for a generation”. She punctuates her assertion with a moment of self doubt, a question, “aren’t they?” She knows her “kids will grow up knowing they’ve been screwed over by that lot”. What she doesn’t know is if “that lot” will be allowed to keep “laying waste to its own voters”.