RE VE DAY. Millions lost their lives; great sacrifices made; for what? Would those same heroes have still fought and suffered had they known the fate of their few generation’s away descendants?

The New World has arrived. Is this what we suffered for, fought for, and died for they might ask?

The Tories won. Now we’ll see socialism as never before. Socialism for the rich!

Cameron talks of building one nation, yet he has just reappointed the multi-millionaire Iain Duncan-Smith as Works and Pensions Secretary.

Cameron cannot talk of ‘one nation’ when he has reappointed this man! This means continuing to swipe money from the poor and denying dignity to the disabled, transferring it via tax cuts to his super rich Etonian chums.

Both the Holy Quran and the Holy Bible sound warnings about the treatment of the poor and disabled.

Take Amos’ evisceration of the affluent, who ‘walk all over the weak and treat the poor as less than nothing.’ (Amos 8:4). Ring any bells?

Cameron, like the Pharaoh of the Old Testament, will now Thatcherite his heart and those of his Cabinet cronies and turn public opinion further against the poor, distributing more pain and misery.

More food banks. Children born into this era might grow up thinking food banks, suffering, doing without, are the norm.

More propaganda about ‘private good’ and ‘public bad.’ Last year, old Etonian The Right Honourable Oliver Letwin said public sector staff needed fear and discipline. See how these people think? These Etonians who have never set foot in a factory except for pre-election gimmick purposes.

They’ll ‘simplify’ the welfare system further, for ‘simplify’ read ‘greater cuts’.

Since the Tories took office Britain seems even more broken. In a few years time we’ll see the public being asked to choose between cuts to welfare or to the police or the NHS. We cannot afford both, they’ll lie.

Employers will hold all the ace cards with new American macho hire and fire rules, lower wages, and destructive markets.

Employees will be further robbed of justice when seeking unfair dismissal claims by the Government yet again upping application costs. Women are the biggest losers so far with the massive cuts to public services — a predominantly female workforce. Women and children also rely more on public services.

Austerity and welfare cuts exacerbate domestic tensions; women’s refuges have been closing due to cuts and more cuts to come!

Last year the Government savagely attacked the charity Oxfam for daring to mention the spread of poverty in one of the globe’s richest countries.

Can the NHS take another five years of austerity? Then we’ll be for it: the private companies will scramble to the rescue, bugles blasting, the cavalry’s arrived! Most, however, are in situ already, waiting and bubbly on standby.

The rest of us? American style two-tier healthcare. Can’t afford insurance? Tough. Try the charity hospitals, miles away or shut down if the public have stopped giving. The rich will get the best drugs and treatment. Us poor folk? Smart price, inferior drugs — be grateful!

When the end comes they’ll blame it on the public services, not the private parasites.

One in four Conservative peers has financial connections to companies involved in healthcare.

Being a Tory means being at ease with wealth, despising the poor, breaking bread with rich donors, media barons and the very people who caused the crash in the first place — investment bankers.

In 1914 Robert Tressell’s landmark novel, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, was published. To this day no other fiction title has so thoroughly captured the utter insanity of capitalism. Last year Cameron gave his hairdresser a gong. It wasn’t for cutting his hair but for not having cut his throat with all the opportunities afforded.

JEFF ADAMS Bloomsbury Swindon