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Your Tories sound like our Republicans. Spend and spend without raising taxes, drive your country into deep debt, privatize everything so your friends can make money off it, leave the mess for the other party to clean up when they get elected. Throw a hissy fit when taxes go up to pay the check. Repeat this cycle over and over.
Ironically the Tories were always seen as the responsible party for the nations finances.
What's happened is 14 years of rule with corruption and far right politics creeping in.
Yes, US republicans also claim to be more responsible with government finances and have had far right factions taking over the past 20 years or so