From the Telegraph, but probably more suited to Mein Kampf:

 

This Conservative Party is more socialist than any government I have seen in my lifetime

 

The Tories will not recover from the catastrophic election defeat which faces them this week. They don’t deserve to – because they have spent the last two years alienating their core supporters. These supporters, of whom I used to be one, are very largely old-fashioned, traditional middle class voters. I suppose we can be described as “respectable” – before, as GK Chesterton said, that word became very unrespectable.

 

What we old Tories stand for is the defence of the realm against foreign enemies and the maintenance of law and order at home. In these matters the Tory party under Cameron has betrayed us. The armed forces have been run down, even to the extremity of a proposal that we might have to share an aircraft carrier with the French – thus prompting the question of what we do with our half of it when their half surrenders. The riots of last summer are all the evidence we need to prove that the government cannot maintain law and order.

 

Boris Johnson says the government should go in for “more tax cuts.” More in addition to what? There have been no significant tax cuts. In fact every week there are proposals for ever more inventive methods of extorting money from the hardworking and the thrifty. I actually find myself paying tax on my meagre pension. Tories used to believe in supporting industry, both private and corporate, and rewarding thrift. Not any longer. We are taxed to the hilt, and industry is hamstrung by more and more regulation. Does Dave really think that the way to electoral success is by the systematic impoverishment of the middle class?

 

So what does Cameron’s Tory party stand for? It stands for massive state spending on failed institutions such as the NHS and what is laughably called state education. It funds, out of the taxes of the hardworking and the thrifty, a profligate public sector and a bloated welfarist culture. While turning its back on traditional Tory values, the modern – Oh yes, how very modern! – Conservative party is obsessed with the promotion of outlandish minority and sectarian causes.

In other words, Dave’s Tory party is more socialist than any socialist government I have seen in my lifetime. Why should I, or any other conservative-minded person vote for it?

 

There's so many things wrong with this article I can't even be bothered to point them all out, I'll let Grimly do that.

Ew.

The letter writer is obviously pretty ancient as well as confused. After all, when did we last have what could be called a socialist government?

The letter writer is obviously pretty ancient as well as confused. After all, when did we last have what could be called a socialist government?

 

Attlee I guess (or Wilson at an extreme stretch).

Attlee I guess (or Wilson at an extreme stretch).

Well, Attlee (still our best post-war PM) did describe socialism as "what a Labour government does".

Wow. There are no words for how awful that article is.

Well, given their policies on the disabled, the sick, and, well, poor people in general, I'd say this lot are more "National" Socialism than any kind that Marx or Castro would recognise... :rolleyes:

Well, given their policies on the disabled, the sick, and, well, poor people in general, I'd say this lot are more "National" Socialism than any kind that Marx or Castro would recognise... :rolleyes:

 

I think extermination might be a bit far even for the Tories but I catch your drift.

 

I also, on top of everything else, lol'd at the idea that the riots happened because the police weren't maintaining strict enough law and order. There is such a thing as a police state, thank fuck we're not in one.