What does a virus do?
A virus makes you weak, disorientated, listless, disconnected; often they hang around much longer than expected and leave you feeling not quite the same as before even when you are finally clear. Such an illness can cause a sufferer to lose their senses.
Viruses creep around the body making things not work, just as the Tories have crept around the body politic, weakening systems,
confusing others, making others malfunction.
Viruses raise the body’s temperature just as the
jingoism and racism of an increasingly right-wing Tory party has done, befuddling brain function sometimes harming essential organs, heart and brain, creating long
lasting damage.
The Tories
have mucked up essential social organs such as the NHS and schools.
Plus, a long virulent ailment can leave you
vulnerable to other maladies. Having a Tory administration this last decade and
a half has left the UK vulnerable to all sorts of social sicknesses; hatred, fear,
cruelty towards the poor and vulnerable. Viruses can cause painful inflammation
in some areas – just as child poverty has become inflamed. Ditto foodbank usage
and homelessness.
Poor decision making can occur as a result of
reduced brain activity – David Cameron. In extreme cases – spasms or odd jerky
movements may be induced – Theresa May. High temperatures associated with some
viruses prompt delusions, babbling and incoherence – or what we might term a bad
case of Lizz Truss. Perverse mental meanderings and unpleasant swellings –
Boris Johnson. Ultimately the illness may lead to ongoing whining, tetchiness
and self-pity – Sunak.
Some viruses cause nausea and vomiting – and to be
base – this lot certainly make me feel sick regularly.
Now the virus is seeping out of the body – many
spores leaving in the hope of avoiding Portillo-itis.
Quite simply, you’d have to conclude that, outside of covid, the Tory
party is one of the most debilitating collective viruses the UK has had.
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