WHAT IS TORIES LEGACY AFTER BEING 14 YEARS IN POWER
ZDENKO KOS MSc MEc BScEcon Hons MBA • 13 April 2024

TIME FOR TORIES TO PACK THEIR COFFERS AND GO HOME ...

Once upon a time, the Tory party were seen as the party of "law and order”. However, for the past 14 years of being in power, it has been the complete opposite. They are now the party of scandals, and they are gambling with taxpayers’ money as if it were their own.


They cover up for each other with lies and ridiculous explanations. For example, Dominic Raab stating clearly on TV that there was nothing wrong with a party at number 10 and the police are not looking into things which are over one year old.


I’ve been looking at the numbers and figures over the past 14 years. What will this Tory government’s legacy be?


Let me start with the number of appointments:


PRIME MINISTERS: 5

-     David Cameron (2010-2016)

-     Theresa May (2016-2019)

-     Boris Johnson (2019-2022)

-     Liz Truss (2022)

-     Rishi Sunak (2022-current)

 

CHANCELLORS of EXCHEQUERS: 7

-     George Osborne (2010-2016)

-     Philip Hammond (2016-2019)

-     Sajid Javid (2019-2020)

-     Rishi Sunak (2020-2022)

-     Nadhim Zahawi (2022)

-     Kwasi Kwarteng (2022)

-     Jeremy Hunt (2022-current)

 

HOME SECRETARY (SECRETARY of STATE): 8

-     Theresa May (2010-2016)

-     Amber Rudd (2016-2018)

-     Sajid Javid (2018-2019)

-     Priti Patel (2019-2022)

-     Suella Braverman (2022)

-     Grant Shapps (2022)

-     Suella Braverman (2022-2023)

-     James Cleverly (2023-Incumbent)

 

FOREIGN SECRETARIES: 8

-     William Hague (2010-2014)

-     Philip Hammond (2014-2016)

-     Boris Johnson (2016-2018)

-     Jermy Hunt (2018-2019)

-     Dominic Raab (2019-2021)

-     Elizabeth Truss (2021-2022)

-     James Cleverly (2022-2023)

-     David Cameron (2024-present

 

MINISTERS FOR HEALTH and SOCIAL CARE: 8+2

-     Andrew Lansley (2010-2012)

-     Jeremy Hunt (2012-2018)

-     Matt Hancock (2018-2021)

-     Sajid Javid (2021-2022)

-     Steve Barclay (2022)

-     Therese Coffey (2022)

-     Steve Barclay (2022-2023)

-     Victoria Atkins (2023-curent)

-     + 2 ministers for Health & Secondary Care

 

Make no mistake, we are seeing the same faces doing different jobs - they just rotate from one ministerial position to another. So how can the same people do anything better, if they haven’t done so in the last 14 years since they came to power?


Rishi, do you still remember your first speech infront of No 10 and your first mega-brand video?

You said "I have been selected as a leader of my party and your primer minister and that work begin immediately".

What has happened after?

You walk in to the No 10 and music starts playing. But not any music, but music by Gary Glitter!

Seems you and your office is not aware about Gary Glitter. Gary Glitter was found guilty of child sex offences and he admitted 54 such offences. 

Your spokesman stated clearly to the Times "The soundtrack for the Prime Minister's latest video is certainly not by Gary Glitter".

How long you and your office needed to do the U-turn?

 

You also stated that your government will ensure integrity, professionalism and accountability. 

You failed here the very first day in the office as PM as well. But this was because you made a deal with "Leaky Sue" [Suella Braverman]. She made security risk as Home Secretary 6-times. After 6 days she change her "story" and she was appointed by you Rishi Sunak again as Home Secretary because you don't care about accountability and you appointed her into your government. Another U-turn on your big words about integrity, professionalism and accountability.


This was not the only case. What about Nadim Zahawi? You appointed him as Chancellor of Exchequer. You did not care that he "allegedly" forgot to pay over £8.2 million taxes and Zahawi finally made a deal with HRMC for £5 million only once this leak to media.


And you were doing this all the time up to the last of your appointment where you made former PM, the United Kingdom new Foreign Secretary and he was rewarded even title "Lord". Collapse of Greensill was one of your previous deals with David Cameron - you signed a cheque for £200 million for Greensill lobbied by David Cameron.


You were not bothered with Gary Glitter music in your video introduction same as you were not bothered to do something about allegation concerned your former MP Mark Menzies who lost his whip on Wednesday purely because he misused party funds.


In every government department in the last 14 years we cannot see anything apart of improper behaviour of PM and MP's, private interest, sex scandals, sleaze scandals, ... 


But let me continue with figures:


The economic picture is a complete disaster. The Tory Government is full of excuses about our stagnating economy; the most common reasons given are the covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine and now the war in Gaza not to mention that they accused even leader of Labour Party to be guilty party for their disasters. I am lost and confused.

Does all of the above only affect the United Kingdom or are other countries affected as well (apart to worry about the Labour leader Keir Starmer)?


The figures also reveal:


1. The complete disaster of scraping the northern leg of HS2. In 2013, HS2 was estimated to cost £37.5 billion in 2009 prices, but the costs have continued to spiral.

A budget of £55.7 billion for the whole of HS2 was set in 2015. Some reports now suggest costs have surpassed £105 billion, having been driven up by recent inflation rises. Mr Sunak announced in October 2023 that the HS2 high-speed rail line would stop at Birmingham, after at least £1.4 billion had been spent on the northern leg that was due to run to Crewe and then onto Manchester. (HS2 - ONE WAY TICKET TO NOWHERE (mercator.direct))


2. Small boats debacle: Asylum claimants’ hotel bills cost nearly £1.3 billion last year. The Tory immigration chaos has also led to the Home Office seeking an emergency cash payment of £2.6billion, after unforeseen expenditure on hotels for asylum seekers.

If the Rwanda plan was implemented (luckily it is not) the bill would be an additional £1.8 million per asylum seeker: not to mention that the UK will take 200-300 asylum seekers from Rwanda in exchange for each UK emigration flight which lands.


3. Covid Corruption: Over £80 billion was paid out by the government. From £80 billion, £17.4 billion was obtained by fraudsters – the government was able to retract less then £1.1 billion. The government wrote off a further £10.2 billion just for unusable and faulty PPE.


4. Steel Industry - Bail out with Benefits: The cash subsidy paid to Tata in Wales was £0.5bn; PM Rishi Sunak signed a cheque to one of his fathers in law’s best friends. His father-in-law is part of Tata Group. In addition, £200 million has been paid in the name of “keeping jobs and not to give a boot to workers”. TATA STEEL CONSPIRACY THEORY (mercator.direct)

Was this the only such generous contribution of Rishi Sunak to India’s business elite? No! Let me remind you of the Greensill Capital affair, where the previous PM and current Foreign Minister David Cameron lobbied on their behalf; Rishi Sunak (at the time Chancellor of the Exchequer) signed and gave David Cameron a cheque for £200 million for Greensill. David Cameron made about £3.2m from shares in the collapsed finance company not to mention his consultancy work; as a part time executive David Cameron made over £8.8 million before the company’s collapse.

Independent sources suggest that David Cameron’s remuneration figure was £2.6 million while other sources stated it was nearly double this figure.


5. EPIC – the NHS electronic patient records software: How many billions have various NHS Trusts spent on this? Better not to know, as some may get a coronary instantly by reading the amount paid. Allegedly, the middleman was the company where the wife of PM Rishi Sunak is working – they were given a “reward” of £288 million.

I am baffled. Every day the politicians are saying how clever the British are, and how world class the universities in the UK are. So why did a Tory Government sign with a US supplier for this old out of date “package”? Even more bizarrely, EPIC is going through Palantir Technologies who have links to the CIA and sell private data to different interested parties.

Make no mistake, patients have no privacy anymore – their data will be sold, if it hasn’t already happened. 

Why did the Tories introduce EPIC? To drop the figures on “waiting” lists. Currently, from my well informed and first-hand source, I am told that 2.8 million recent patients on waiting lists simply disappear (magic has happened – lost data - data not entered - or erased - or renamed – appointments not renewed …). Boris Johnson would say “there was a glitch” as he said for his magic “Track and Save”.


6. Elections bill: It is well known that in the Tory party there are currently a minimum of 5 factions who are not happy with the current PM, Rishi Sunak. They even suggested holding the general election concurrently with the various Mayoral, Police, Crime commissioners and local elections taking place on 2nd May 2024.

As our PM enjoys free transport including free flights and can still broker a few more deals to make him and his family and friends richer, his decision was to not to call a general election. This decision will cost taxpayers an extra £140 million to again set up all the polling stations and election infrastructure.


And the statistics can go further and further. On my spreadsheet, currently there are 207 cases which I’ve taken into consideration: starting with HS2 as the most expensive failure and finishing with by-elections at a cost of £250,000 each.


Rishi Sunak has presided over a Conservative Party in chaos and has saddled the taxpayer with the bill. These shocking costs are the result of a party out of ideas, more interested in looking inwards than outwards than delivering for the country. The country needs change and it is a Labour government that will deliver it.

Over 1.4million homeowners are due to come to the end of fixed mortgage deals in this financial year, with families typically seeing their repayments increase by £240 a month. According to several analysis, this will leave them paying a total of around £4.1 billion extra next year.


Eight by-elections have been called so far in previously Tory-held seats since Mr Sunak became PM, and there will be more.

MPs forced to stand down over scandal and sleaze include former Deputy Chief Whip Chris Pincher, who was accused of assaulting guests at a Tory club, and Peter Bone, who was accused of flashing his researcher. 


Even a very conservative estimate of the cost of the “rubbish” appointments and Tory chaos runs into billions of pounds. Trust me, it won’t stop and if the Tories win again, it will all just carry on and on. There is nothing to suggest they have learned their lesson, that there won’t be future leadership contests, or that the infighting won’t just start up again the day after polling day.


The candidates to replace Rishi Sunak are already on manoeuvres. Stability is underpriced in politics… And the only way to liberate the country from the pattern of recent years, and to put an end to the cost of Tory chaos, is to end their period in power!

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