‘Let me see,’ Tory man said.

‘Let me see,’ Tory man said, ‘if we cut the budgets for the schools, hospitals, prisons, councils, social services, armed forces, police, libraries, and probation services we’d have lots of loot. We could afford to cut taxes for the wealthy.’
‘But won’t that start to create problems?’ Other Tory man asked.
‘Only for the poor!’ Tory man snorted scornfully.
‘But they all have votes,’ Other Tory man pointed out in a worried voice. ‘They could vote us out.’
‘Not if we play our cards right,’ Tory man chortled. ‘We’ll blame it on the EU and create a smokescreen of Brexit! We’ll tell them that Labour managed it badly and we have to live within our means.’
‘Will that work?’ Other Tory man asked dubiously.
‘Of course it will work!’ Tory man declared. ‘Besides, we own the media. We can tell them what to believe!’
So, the vice tightened on those at the bottom. The homeless numbers soared and the food banks opened. The desperate turned to crime and the crime rate soared. The schools were struggling and kicked out the troublesome. The youth clubs shut and the gangs were welcoming. There were not enough police to keep on top of it and the courts were not functioning. The army was no longer an option. Zero hours contracts on low pay offered no careers when drug money bought you a Porsche in a matter of months. But you had to defend your patch with a machete and life was cheap. An underfunded NHS tried to stitch up the victims.
And for those at the top, for whom tax is optional, life has never been as good. They took their loot off-shore to stash it safely away.
And Brexit rages away and those at the bottom blame it all on the EU.