Tory-vs-Labour Purges. And the winner is..........................

To Purge is; “to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.”

Seems to me there are two ‘purges’ going on at the moment. One by the Labour Party that is aimed at ridding the Leadership Election of those who are “impure” and “undesirable” in thought and deed. An active attempt to emasculate what the rump of the old guard of ‘New’ Labour would see as a very inconvenient democratic outcome in an election process based on voting criteria that they insisted upon. A method of emasculation far better described by one of those already ‘purged’ when he said on the BBC that they (the Labour Party) are “trying to rig the election.” God bless Jeremy Hardy then. Sheldon Wolin is perhaps more generous when he calls it ‘Managed Democracy’ but I’m sticking with Hardy. Mainly because I’m one of the ‘purged’ too.

This ‘purging’ has now been going on for a couple of weeks and will continue for a little while longer. Subsequently there is a growing anger in the air and much spitting of dry feathers but really no-one has been harmed beyond their sense of justice or pride. Certainly no-one has died.

However, there is a second ‘purge’ in progress that has been going on for some years now. A Coalition and now Tory Government ‘purge’ of the poor, the destitute, the recovering sick, the disabled and the vulnerable. In this ‘purge’ people do die. Regularly.

This second ‘purge’ (and I’m getting heartily sick of that word) is, in my view, well thought out, deliberately applied, and an obvious crime against humanity. If another government elsewhere in the world was treating their sick and disabled, their children and their poor as the UK government is doing to those in the UK today, (and especially if that country had resources we could appropriate), we would be at least sabre rattling if not at war for humanitarian reasons and the UN would be passing resolutions left right and centre. So far, as far as I can see, there has been little more than a muted ‘tut tut’ from those in power and then back to business as usual.

Is it not only the other day that Iain Duncan Smith, the Sinister Minister announced even more attacks on the disabled? A speech full of sophistry designed to cover cruelty with kind words spoken softly and aimed squarely at one of the most vulnerable groups in society. One far less able to counter his blows. By then he would (should?) have known all about the Death Statistics produced by his very own DWP. And if not then why not? However, although knowing that people are dying in their thousands it wasn’t even enough to make him break stride. We are dealing with a very ugly form of inhumanity here and on an industrial scale as far as resultant deaths are concerned. We are fast approaching 100,000.

The DWP have had these statistics, that they have done their very best to keep hidden, for years. As the Minister in charge if Iain Duncan Smith didn’t know about these deaths then there is something desperately wrong at the DWP and at the Cabinet Table. And if he did but still carried on regardless then are there not criminal charges to be answered here?

Manslaughter; “The unlawful killing of one human by another without express or implied intent to do injury.”

Or worse,

Murder; “The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the crime of killing a person with malice aforethought or with recklessness manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.”

Seems to me the Courts should decide.