The oxymoron that is "One nation Conservatism"

Well done all those Labour MPs who signed the letter organised by Richard Burgon to demand that "no worker is paid less than the national minimum wage if they are furloughed " during the current health crisis. Forcing workers on the minimum wage now to live on 67% of their earnings means the earnings they get will be , as the article says, £5.81 an hour! Not only is this typically callous, and typical of Tory governments, it illustrates clearly the nonsense that is Johnson`s government`s claim to represent "one nation Conservatism". Now there`s an oxymoron if ever there was one! This, of course, is the concept developed by Tories to win elections in the late nineteenth century. Faced with the unstoppable surge of increased suffrage, and therefore also with the need to win the votes of poor, newly enfranchised men, Disraeli`s party`s solution was to promise a country which would no longer be divided into two "nations", the haves and have-nots, an electoral ploy which helped Disraeli win the 1874 election. Johnson talks a lot about bringing the country together as one nation, but knows, like Disraeli, Tories cannot achieve it, as it would split the party and alienate too many donors. Johnson and Sunak constantly complain that increases to minimum wages and increased benefit payments cannot be afforded, but the reality is that they have no intention of doing any such thing. Disraeli couldn`t carry it out, and the voters kicked him out in 1880; Johnson won`t try it because his party would remove him long before the next election if he did! Starmer`s Labour should be aiming, therefore, to expose the true objectives of this government by illuminating the lies being told about the economy, the amount of debt that is really owed, and the full extent of the Bank of England`s role in supplying hundreds of billions through quantitative easing for the government to spend, and which should not be included in debt figures!