How are the Conservatives still in Government?

The effects Theresa May is rending on British society are detrimental and undeniably shameful. She is leading a rabid government that needs to be put down. But the Conservatives are still pretty much calling the shots. They are representing and deciding for Britain in the Brexit negotiations for instance! I do not relish that thought. To understand this situation better it is handy to take a step back.

In 2010 David Cameron officially starts austerity...

In 2011 Cameron and his government militarily intervene in Libya. Only 13 MPs voted not to invade Libya, 557 voted the opposite. You'd think that it would be the other way around considering previous, recent cases of military intervention - Afghanistan and Iraq - which indisputably worsened situations and contributed to great death, destruction and extremism. Hmm, are our politicians getting less principled? Less sensitive? Less intelligent? All of the above? For the record Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell were among the 13 who voted against.

All the while austerity is tearing the poorest levels of our country apart. Homelessness rises. Police force is drastically cut. NHS is cut. UN report states that the UK government severely violated the rights of disabled people due to welfare reforms from 2010-2015; the Conservative government dismisses this report. Nurses go to food banks. And the rich get richer.

In May 2015 Cameron and his government are re-elected. In September the same year Corbyn is elected leader of the Labour party by a landslide. It is also in this year that Cameron and his government launch air-strikes on IS in Syria.

Cameron calls referendum in 2016 and in June resigns after unwanted "Brexit" result. May takes Cameron's place, without having to be elected, thus with no mandate. In the same year Corbyn is re-elected as Labour party leader, by more of a landslide than last time, thus increasing his mandate.

With the media overwhelmingly on her side, legitimising her vapid platitudes, not interrogating them in any way, May does historically well in the polls. Corbyn however is overwhelmingly disparaged and misrepresented by popular media, who seem unable to accept or comprehend his principled caring character, thus doing historically unwell in the polls.

Austerity continues unabated as May and her government ignore it's warnings and evidence. Her popularity remains because mainstream media are shamefully ignorant and pathetic.

In January 2016 an amendment to the government's housing bill, put forward by Corbyn and Labour, to make British homes "fit for human habitation", is voted against by 72 Conservative MPs, many of whom are landlords.

April 2017 May calls a snap election for June 8, arrogantly thinking she'll gain a large majority and exert more control over Britain. Corbyn and his party stop May and her government from gaining any majority at all.

This one is good. On June 9, the day of the general election result, May, in order to gain a majority, decides to "prop her government up" with… wait for it… the DUP. A bigoted Northern Ireland party associated with terrorism. In doing so May, as John Major and Gerry Adams confirm, jeopardises the Good Friday Agreement. Thus in order to cling to power May jeopardises peace with Northern Ireland, essentially dismissing and trivialising all the death that occurred during "The Troubles".

June 14 2017, a horrific tragedy occurs. In London North Kensington, Grenfell Tower, a block of flats housing 600 people, catches fire, which spreads unusually easily. There was no sprinkler system, flammable cladding was used because it was cheaper and according to a number of residents no fire-alarms were operating. Though there is no conclusive verdict, there are undoubtedly connections here with austerity, private ownership of what should be council/state property and consequent cost-cutting in poorer areas, all caused and exacerbated by an incompetent Tory government and it's ruling ideology, neoliberalism.

The Conservatives will go down in history as the rich property-owner party who took (or maybe stole or scrounged) desperately-needed money from the most vulnerable members of society and continued with this program for at least 7 years, with devastating results. National interest? With New Labour they will also be known as the great war-mongering party, whose members seem to possess no empathy, sensitivity or intelligence when it comes to the deaths of foreign civilians and the causes of perpetual war, hatred and extremism. 

Sensitivity, compassion and intelligence are desperately needed in British government. With Corbyn the Labour party possesses such traits.