Tory policy of picking at scabs

Since the Tories won a majority government in May, you'd think they'd be walking on entitled air. Au contraire, every policy has been met with protests, petitions and anger. I guess that's what happens when you pick a scab.

Tax credits: I agree with David Cameron on this one. People shouldn't be reliant on handouts, the reason they are is because they're not being paid enough. The Tory solution was to pass a bill to stop tax credits. They were stopping the remedy before curing the problem.

The bill the Tories should've passed was one forcing companies like Monsoon, Las Iguanas and Bills to pay their staff minimum wage. In fact any business earning more than £1 million gross profit (this number is arbitrary - whatever the figure is to ensure companies can still prosper) should be fined if it doesn't adhere to this. Then once everyone who works for big, profit making companies makes enough to live on, then scrap tax credits for households where both parents or a carer is in employment.

The NHS: Jeremy C... ahem, Hunt. I mean Jeremy Hunt has to be the most obnoxious and smug piece of work in the Tory party. And that's saying something. He is punishing junior doctors who already work 24/7 with longer hours for less pay. I don't know about you, but when I or a member of my family is being examined by a doctor, I want that doctor to be rested and happy.

I don't work in a vital service, so when I misfire because I'm tired and miserable, it has little consequence. Doctors are the frontline in saving people and improving the quality of life. If we don't look after them, they can't look after us. However, once again the Tories are picking at that scab - making it worse before they treated with iodine... or whatever, this is why we need doctors!

The problem with the NHS is it hemorrhages money through gross inefficiencies. It employs a lot of non-medical staff, like directors and middle managers, it even has a marketing department! It only needs one non-medical department; PR to handle white papers, research and accusations of malpractice. Naturally, it also needs an accounts department and a legal department, but the rest is really unnecessary.

It needs to be managed from the bottom up (I actually believe everything should be managed from the bottom up) and it needs to stop trying to be a corporation. The patient should be at the heart of everything it does. It needs deregulation, but still government funded and reform in order to make a institution for the people, run by the people.

But I guess by destroying the NHS, it will create a greater need to privatise it.

Immigration: David Cameron has committed to taking in 20,000 refugees over the next five years. Everyone has focused on this woefully small number, but I'm more concerned about the period of time. So, the Tories are committed to preserving the war in Syria for the next FIVE YEARS!

Again, they're picking away at that incredibly deep wound. How about being the bastions of diplomacy, democracy and redevelopment. Just as we spread our form of health, education, transport, law and order and government throughout the world during the empire - we can once again help countries install new democracies, justicial systems and educational institutions to rebuild countries from the ground up. Or at least getting the Arab Nations together to talk over a table about their problems and how they can be resolved - this may end up being more lucrative than war.

Human Rights Bill and Snooper's Charter: I don't understand why these needed to be revisited. Human rights are human rights, as long as it makes it easier and cheaper to convict people who violate these laws and as for surveillance laws - I don't know how I feel about it. People should be allowed to research, talk about and even promote radical opinions without fear of arrest, as long as they're not doing anything illegal or inciting violence. Only once a crime has been committed should this information be used to gain a conviction. This shouldn't be used to lock you up before a crime has been committed.

Unless, you're researching bomb making and talk in code to various accomplices and then said person should be arrested.

Syrian airstrikes: Has every government since Thatcher waged some sort of war in the Middle East? John Major had the Gulf War, Tony Blair had the Iraq War and David Cameron had Libya (not technically Middle East, but you know what I mean). Since these wars have done nothing but perpetuate war, terror organisations, humanitarian crisis and puppet governments, do you think it's time to bring in some fresh tactics and not try to heal a burn by setting fire to it.

Tory ideology is so antiquated, you can read about it in the Doomsday Book. They keep raking over old ground to fill their bank accounts without realising that people are now wise to it. It's time to apply some fresh bandages and then we might be able to heal the world.

First published 06/11/2015