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heheh.
I do hate them. I always have, and I always will. I don;t mean I hate all conservatives - the vast majority of conservatives I believe want the best for the country. I disagree with their analysis of what that might be, but I don't really doubt their intentions are any less well-meaning than my own.
But the conservative high command are a different kettle of cod. I am happy to see them in disarray, because they are tearing up what little remains of the social contract, the welfare state and the NHS with gay abandon and apparent impunity. We've got rising levels of domestic violence, as families are pushed into crisis, ever more children living in poverty, massive numbers of people in low-waged, insecure work, an ever worsening housing crisis, and rising inequality - all we are told in order to balance the books, meanwhile the cost of this grand scale attack on the poor means the deficit has grown faster under their administration than it did under the previous government, and wages are unlikely to return to pre-2008 levels in real terms until well into the 2020s.
I never did like IDS, but I'm happy he's decided to take a shot at the blatant unfairness of cut after cut to the incomes of the poor, juxtaposed with tax cut after tax cut for the better off.
If his resignation has fatally wounded the leadership ambitions of the psychopath in No. 11, then that's something positive to come out of the mess.
If anybody needs me, I'll be sitting in the front row with a bag of peanuts and some knitting.
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