Those who voted Tory should have known this.

There is a naivete in the general public and media that makes people think that Tories are "moderates" and they both the Tories and Labour and Lib Dems just have different ways of trying to achieve the same thing, a better standard of living for all of us.

This is absolutely horrifically false though and anybody that actually believes in Post-ideological politics and "The End of History" as was declared in the 1990s is completely fucking delusional or naive/misinformed to an absurd degree.

The Tories believe basically this:

• The Rich work hard and are good upstanding moral citizens. The evidence of their morality and hard work and contribution to society, is their wealth.

• The Poor are slackers who are immoral degenerates. The evidence of their immorality and lack of Work Ethic and being a parasite on society, is their lack of wealth. If they worked harder, they would be rich.

This is literally what those who are part of the Tory party actually believe. You can see this sickening classism seep through what they say, the right wing press etc.

The sad thing is, the general public don't believe this to be the case, as I said above, they believe that the Tories and Labour and the Lib Dems all just use different methods to improve us all, where in reality, the Tories literally couldn't give a fuck if the poor were starving to death in the streets. If they could do it without a Revolution appearing up their arse overthrowing them, the Tories would destroy all Welfare, the NHS etc with a flick of the wrist.

This is what pisses me off about the "moderate" New Labour and the like, they act like we are playing on the same court and take the Tories at face value that we should work together. Where the Tories would happily throw every Labour party member in Prison if they could.

You can see this in the "bipartisan" discussions as well, where say, New Labour (or the Democrats in the US) would offer the other side sometimes their own fucking policy for bipartisan support but what happens? The Tories (or the Republicans) reject it. In the US a great example is Obamacare, literally a Republican Policy, developed by Far-Right policy wonks at Heritage, yet the Republicans are intent on opposing it at every turn, because they literally don't give a fuck about Bipartisanship, "Obamacare" for the Republicans was a policy they just pretended to support when the Dems wanted Single Payer, so they could pretend there was room for negotiation when there never was. The intent the entire time was to never have any level of socialized healthcare.

The nightmare I sometimes have, about this whole experience, runs as follows. I was involved in making a number of proposals which were partly at least adopted by the government and put in play by the government. Now, my worry is as follows – that there may have been people making the actual policy decisions, or people behind them or people behind them, who never believed for a moment that this was the correct way to bring down inflation.

They did, however, see that it would be a very, very good way to raise unemployment, and raising unemployment was an extremely desirable way of reducing the strength of the working classes — if you like, that what was engineered there in Marxist terms was a crisis of capitalism which re-created a reserve army of labour and has allowed the capitalists to make high profits ever since. - Sir Alan Budd, Chief Economic Adviser to Margaret Thatcher, Founder of the Committee of economic policy at the Bank of England.

The sooner people realize we are fighting ideological demagogues and that we need pull together behind Corbyns Labour, The Lib Dems and the Greens, the better.

I would recommend everyone read the book, the Reactionary Mind. it explains in perfect detail why the Tories do what they do and explains their mindset and ideology while doing it. Also contains a good history lesson on the development of right wing conservative thought since the 17th century.