My dad found this quote in a recent newspaper article and it's about what to expect from an incoming Tory government:
"We know perfectly well what to expect — a party of great vested interests, banded together in a formidable federation; corruption at home, aggression to cover it up abroad; the trickery of tariff juggles, the tyranny of a party machine; sentiment by the bucketful, patriotism by the imperial pint; the open hand at the public exchequer, the open door at the public house; dear food for the million, cheap labour for the millionaire."
The speech it's from was by Winston Churchill (!) for the Liberals in 1904.
Barring a little of the language being of it's time, it could have been written today.
NB I appreciate the irony of Churchill returning to the Tories not long after.
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