{"id":9419,"date":"2015-05-05T11:10:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T10:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=9419"},"modified":"2021-01-13T10:42:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T10:42:18","slug":"meet-the-invisibles-the-wealthy-and-powerful-at-the-heart-of-the-tory-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2015\/05\/05\/meet-the-invisibles-the-wealthy-and-powerful-at-the-heart-of-the-tory-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the invisibles \u2013 the wealthy and powerful at the heart of the Tory party"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are the people that assume that my life and others like me is worthless. I am getting a bit rusty and creaking due to the passage of time. There is not much I can say or do about anything that will have an effect, \u00a0but when people are pushed to extremes, something snaps in the end. People still\u00a0believe\u00a0the lie that hanging on their coat tales will somehow lift us out of the\u00a0myre. The notion that people can work hard to improve their lot in life is shown to be in most cases a\u00a0fallacy. Its very difficult to make money if you don’t have it it in the first place. Its more profitable even now for banks to asset strip\u00a0companies\u00a0rather than\u00a0support\u00a0small business.\u00a0The so called growth is very little to do with any real productivity and far to many people are classed as employed statistically when they are on zero hours contracts or on part-time minimum wage jobs fighting to survive with in work\u00a0benefits.
\n<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Understand the simple truth about the nature of these people, they wouldn’t piss on you if your were on fire.<\/h3>\n

If you are going to vote then think \u00a0about what you want the UK to look like in future.<\/p>\n

We have become accustomed to the most extreme inequality. Its doesn’t have to be like that. Yet we still put up with it.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n
\n

\"PoweredThis article titled “Meet the invisibles \u2013 the wealthy and powerful at the heart of the Tory party” was written by Polly Toynbee, for The Guardian on Tuesday 5th May 2015 05.00 UTC<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a networking event in one of the City\u2019s great glass towers. The room is filled mostly with company directors, hedge funders, bankers and lawyers. Would they vote Labour? \u201cAn unmitigated disaster. You can\u2019t be serious? Have you any idea what would happen? Half the clients of people in this room would be off, gone, anyone who can.\u201d<\/p>\n

The editor of Spears Wealth Management Magazine has kindly brought me with him to breathe in the thin air of the upper stratosphere. In the election I have travelled everywhere from Glasgow to the Isle of Wight, Bristol to Ely, Somerset to Gateshead, Chipping Norton to Wakefield, talking to people of all politics and none. But these are the invisibles, the echelons of money and power not seen on Newsnight or Question Time, who never apologise, never explain.<\/p>\n

Their world is the beating heart of the modern Tory party, its financial backers, its influencers who whisper to David Cameron\u2019s people in private gatherings, country suppers and the secret salons of Westminster restaurants; the world where Lord Chadlington<\/a>, lobbying supremo, chats over the stone wall between his estate and Cameron\u2019s in Witney. Murmuring what? We never know. Cameras pry into benefits street but none invade this private life of the nation.<\/p>\n

I had forgotten that frank look of baffled incredulity. No one they meet votes Labour. \u201cYou mean just as we are repairing the frightful damage done by Labour, you want to put them back in? Good God!\u201d \u201cWhat, piss it all up the wall again? Pardon my French \u2013 but you want all those people back on welfare?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t think you realise what this government\u2019s done to get the country back on its feet \u2013 and you want to give it back to the people who bankrupted us?\u201d<\/p>\n

The one non-Tory I met was an older banker from an ancient firm: \u201cI\u2019m a Christian. I\u2019m appalled at migrants being left to drown in the Mediterranean.\u201d Those nearby looked on him politely as an eccentric. A venture capitalist investing in start-ups shook his head: \u201cThe non-doms, they\u2019ll go. Mansion tax, tax rates at 50%? Labour want to drive out wealth creators, don\u2019t they?\u201d<\/p>\n