The Tory party threw away our future, and now they are suffering the consequences

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Recent polls suggested the Tory party may spend the foreseeable future in opposition (PA Wire)

The indication offered by the recent by-elections as to the result of the next general election seems to suggest a Labour government is on the horizon. There appears to be an accompanying assumption that the Tory party may spend the foreseeable future in opposition.

This is the party that continues to offer the electorate austerity and the ultra-wealthy what appear to be limitless tax-dodging opportunities. It has amply demonstrated its capacity for incompetence, duplicity, and corruption in its management of the Covid crisis. Those wounds run deep and remain untreated.

Then we have their disgraced chancellor, catastrophic fiscal events, and one-off and disadvantageous trade deals. They also furnished us with crippling and benefit-free Brexit based, almost in its entirety, on lies.