{"id":33391,"date":"2022-08-31T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T07:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/?p=33391"},"modified":"2024-03-23T12:13:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T12:13:19","slug":"decade-of-tory-rule-has-left-britain-in-permanent-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/political-parties-and-ideologies\/conservative-party\/decade-of-tory-rule-has-left-britain-in-permanent-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a decade of Tory rule has left Britain in permanent crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"drop-cap-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With every passing day, Britain feels like it is plunged further and further into chaos. The proverbial thread continues to unravel with no end in sight. Climate change, soaring bills, spiralling inflation, poverty wages, crumbling public services, food banks running out of groceries to give out and a vacuum of power created by a Conservative cock fight.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To add to the misery and chaos, on 26 August, millions across the country were dealt yet another hammer blow as news of the government regulator <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/energy-bills-to-soar-for-millions-as-price-cap-hiked-to-3-549-12681213\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hiking the energy cap<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> did the rounds, wall-to-wall, bulletin after bulletin.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indeed, the current crisis was partially triggered by the war in Ukraine sending fossil fuel prices spiralling across the global energy markets, inflation quickly following suit. Interchangeable government figures have been parroting this line as the cause of tens of millions facing hardship in the UK. Yet, this is a crisis that was conceived in the UK and overseen by a Conservative party frothing at the mouth to asset strip a nation in order to enrich their own class.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To add insult to injury, these same people have been egregiously telling us to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and feel grateful we\u2019re not in the sight-lines of Russian soldiers. Or if this isn\u2019t enough of an admonishment, they\u2019re using their right-wing media mouthpieces to intimate that we\u2019ve become too accustomed to some of the very basics of life such as a warm home and even plentiful drinking water while drought grips most regions.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A crisis with precedent<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The collective memory of those with a platform appears to be relatively short judging by commentary and reporting across much of the airwaves. The lack of critical analysis is quite astounding for those that lived through the last decade. It must be remembered that the Conservative party have been in a dominant form of power in the UK for the last twelve years, and their immediate mission was to unleash brutal and relentless austerity upon the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a measure of the progress in their self-described mission to \u2018level-up Britain\u2019 and be the party of \u2018working families\u2019, the number of people receiving three days worth of emergency food has risen from under <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/382695\/uk-foodbank-users\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">62,000 in 2010 to more than two million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2022. This only accounts for the Trussell Trust, the largest food bank network, indicating that use across the board is likely much higher.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center rp-full-width rp-quote has-grey-color has-pale-1-background-color has-text-color has-background has-antonio-font-family\" style=\"padding-top:2%;padding-right:2%;padding-bottom:2%;padding-left:2%;font-size:clamp(1.743rem, 1.743rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 1.571), 3rem);\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Candidate after candidate has lined up to stake their horrifying claim to be Margaret Thatcher\u2019s heir-apparent<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All the while, the number of children living in poverty has reached <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jrf.org.uk\/data\/overall-uk-poverty-rates\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">31 per cent (up from 27 per cent in 2010)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In this time, council budgets have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fullfact.org\/economy\/local-authorities-budgets\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shrunk by an average of 26 per cent<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (with central government council funding falling roughly 38 per cent) and essential services have been left in tatters or abandoned completely, purposefully dismembered for private contractors to make a killing out of under delivering.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further grim conditions are to come, with the worst projections estimating up to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/news\/2022\/research\/fuel-poverty-uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">two of every three households will be fuel poor<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by January next year. Given current luck with droughts and extreme weather, we\u2019re undoubtedly in for a winter of severe storms and weather conditions that will only make rationing heating feel all the more challenging for households.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Against this backdrop, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/tory-party-members-choose-pm-162407988.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a tiny proportion of the UK electorate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 Conservative Party members \u2013 are due to impose a new prime minister on the nation in the wake of Boris Johnson\u2019s almighty downfall. During the so-called contest for Britain\u2019s Premiership, candidate after candidate has lined up to stake their horrifying claim to be Margaret Thatcher\u2019s heir-apparent.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their frenzied claims against so-called \u2018woke culture\u2019, championing of nationalism and promises of tax cuts have reached fever pitch, with members likely sweating through euphoria while a nation looks on in horror. Despite the crisis Britain is mired in, a complete lack of leadership or alternative vision exists unabated in the hallowed political spheres.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Organising resistance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet, one only needs to look outside of the halls of Westminster or drab constituency offices to find organisation, planning and serious resistance to shit-show Tory Britain. With inflation spiralling, costs for basics rising and payrises non-existant or paltry, union comrades across different sectors are taking the fight to bosses and government.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The future for Britain\u2019s working class may well be hinged upon the success or not of some of last institutions with some semblance of power and resource that can be wielded for the wider good. Transportation networks grinding to a halt, post going undelivered and legal services unavailable, alongside the potential of walkouts from teachers, nurses and many more across the economy has the potential to force the hand of the powerful and rich.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/unions-strike-action-pay-cost-of-living-b2154257.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Talks of coordinating action across unions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in the conspicuous absence of moves toward a general strike, can only strengthen the hand of workers.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alongside action from historic institutions, those unfamiliar with such spaces or without trust or belief in them are organising resistance on their own terms. Spiralling energy costs that will make the all too common sound bite of \u2018choosing between heating and eating\u2019 feel inappropriate has led to ordinary people drawing their own line in the sand.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Literally faced with no other choice, tens of thousands so far are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rs21.org.uk\/2022\/08\/24\/thousands-join-as-dont-pay-campaign-gathers-steam\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pledging to withhold payment to energy suppliers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Where do the companies think the money is coming from anyway? It is hard to imagine people in their hundreds of thousands, or even millions, won\u2019t be drawn to this type of action through choice or necessity. Glimmers of hope can be found in other resistance from the newer, more agile workers\u2019 unions and tenants\u2019 rights groups organising some of those at the sharpest end of the economy.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Radical transformation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This crisis is founded in years of economic dogma that is the antithesis to a radical socialist vision for people, country, and global order. Without long-term, considered, and planned interventions, we will suffer through the next chapter of neoliberal Britain time and time again. Bouncing from one crisis to another is a sure-fire way to continue oppressing people and fail to address the biggest crises of our time \u2013 so severe that our entire existence is threatened.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Escaping such hell requires writing the following pages ourselves, based on human and planetary needs. Our economic system requires transformation from the bottom-up that prioritises the collective and the whole, rather than extracting from the majority for the asset strippers, rich and powerful.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the age of big excuses, it is imperative we remember Britain\u2019s particular crisis is rooted in the actions of Conservative power, writes Jake Woodier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":42842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,2534,176,2528],"tags":[2864],"class_list":["post-33391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capitalism","category-climate-change","category-conservative-party","category-neoliberalism","tag-jake-woodier"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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