Dave and George's Excellent Adventure

Hey Dudes the party's over

It is hard to believe how far politics has dumbed down over the past six years. After the vows in the Rose Garden with Nick Clegg were trashed, Dave and George, a couple of wealthy dudes from the Oxford University Bullingdon Club, travelled back in time to see what would have happened if Mrs Thatcher had carried out the policies of Milton Friedman.

Dave and George began their adventures by desecrating what had once been trusted British public services. Stripping out resources for schools, roads, social care, housing, Sure Start, sports, the arts, green initiatives and community facilities. Selling off public assets, creating academies to be run by American companies and allowing G4S to run everything else. Commissioning nuclear power stations from French companies with Chinese money.  Reorganising the NHS at enormous expense and then claiming innocence when it goes belly up.

They encouraged the sovereign funds of the Middle East or American global multi-national companies to buy out British companies; they were negligent in letting companies like Amazon, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Google and Facebook evade paying tax; and they used modern apprenticeships to subsidise companies including supermarket chains to pay minimal wages.

At home, they continued the purge of social housing and then taxed 'alleged' under-occupancy. Year-on-year, they reduced taxes for the super-rich and increased tax-free saving allowances whilst holding back or reducing working tax credits and disability payments. They ignored the findings of the Leveson Inquiry and allowed the press to continue to regulate themselves despite their abysmal record on dealing with complaints and the tragic outcome of phone hacking. They have conducted a serial campaign against the BBC requiring them to pay for free licenses for older citizens and threatening the future independence of one of the few globally trusted and innovative sources of news, information and creative programming.

They failed to participate positively in Europe, bombed Libya, and continued to support the weapons industry to sell to countries ramping up the potential for future conflicts in the Middle East. They have refused to seek exemptions from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) for the NHS, Education, Railways and other services or to inform the public of this latent assault on democracy. They also have been phenomenally focused on directing capital infrastructure investment towards London and the South East and created a divided Britain in the process.

Amazingly, they then won an overall majority in Parliament with just 24% of the electorate voting for them in the 2015 General Election, after refusing to allow any changes to the voting system in the previous parliament and shredding their coalition partners, the Lib Dems, in the process. And now, to avoid a conflict in the Tory party over Europe, they have called a referendum on remaining in the EU and unwittingly started a civil war with those who support Brexit within the Tory Party. This will not end well; it looks more like a bogus journey than an excellent adventure.

What amazing dudes.