Monday 22 October 2012

The Tory's "nihilistic festival of destruction"

George Monbiot's fantastic rant:

There was a time when conservatism meant what the word suggests. It was an attempt to keep things as they are: to arrest economic and social change, to defend the position of the dominant class. Today conservatism has become a nihilistic festival of destruction: a gleeful Bullingdon dinner party of upper-class anarchists, smashing other people's crockery and hurling the chairs through the windows. Yet its purpose is still to secure the position of the dominant class.
It is no longer enough to own the land and most of the capital, to own the media and – through the corrupt system of party funding – the political process. To reinstate Edwardian levels of inequality, the feral elite must seek to reverse the political progress that has been made since then. This means dismantling the tax system, which redistributes wealth. It means ditching the rules that prevent the powerful from acting as they please.

See article at http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/22/tory-culture-war-laying-waste-countryside

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