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We have not seen this type of anguish since the days of my boyhood in the 1930s
Today’s Tory Britain is sickeningly unjust – but my past does not have to become your future, says HARRY LESLIE SMITH

THE darkness of austerity gathers all across Britain like the clouds of night while the Tory Party conference in Manchester celebrates its victory in May’s general election behind barbed wire, barricades and a phalanx of police and private security.

As champagne flows and touches the lips of corporate lobbyist party donors and apologists for the slowest economic recovery in Britain for over 300 years, nearly 100,000 children live on the cusp of homelessness and in the cold bosom of despair.

While the party faithful gladhand David Cameron and George Osborne for a job well done on giving tax breaks to our most affluent citizens, four million people subsist below the poverty line.

  • Harry Leslie Smith is author of Harry’s Last Stand and Love Among the Ruins (Icon Books). Join him on Twitter @Harryslaststand.
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