Last week's bingo Budget was a case of "All the 4's - the working poor" and "Foodbank heaven - No 7" for ordinary people.

Then the Tories' inept, accident-prone but certainly humorous party chairman Grant Shapps saw fit to tweet about how "hard-working people" can take advantage of the cut in bingo tax and 1p off a pint doing more of the things "they" enjoy. Us working classes are up in arms and rightly so.

The contempt the Tory Party has always held towards the working class is well documented, but even Thatcher would be amazed at the very public way Shapps showed the Tory hand.

"They" are happy as long as they can have a pint and a night at the bingo.

Well, I say that "they" - those who ride to hounds at the weekend - have no right to stereotype the working class and should be utterly ashamed at their chairman's behaviour.

While we have all been amazed at Shapps's tweet - which prompted some hilarious parodies - there are a few serious questions to be asked over the Tories' gaffe.

First, how on Earth can a government with this lack of intelligence and level of ineptitude have wreaked so much havoc in less than four years in office? Even Thatcher took 11 years.

Second, just how have we come to this state of affairs when an Eton-educated elite are in charge of running the country with no handbrake, which was supposed to come in the form of their coalition partners the Lib Dems?

Our right-wing media, both on TV and in print, are guilty of spewing out a message of hate towards the poor that comes straight out of Orwell's nightmare vision of 1984. Nineteen Eighty-Four is here right now.

As soon as David Cameron and Nick Clegg cemented their coalition partnership in No 10's rose garden back in 2010, they exerted their control of the media to ensure that the coalition lasted and that their policies were pushed through.

As leader of the controlling party, Cameron surrounded himself with his mates, most coming from the same Etonian background - the bastion of the ruling classes.

None of them have any outside life experience - no knowledge of life in factories or on shop floors, and their wives (they are almost exclusively men) don't know what the inside of an Aldi looks like.

Their years of wreaking havoc on the poor have been accelerated by a shrinking violet of a Labour Party, scared to support its core voters by standing up to the Nasty Party's attacks on the poor simply because the spin doctors tell Ed Miliband he may alienate floating voters.

Due to this toxic mix of media complicity and Labour Party fear, Cameron and Clegg have got away with hardly any opposition to their attacks on the working class.

Clegg, who claimed his party would act as a restraint to some of the Tories' more vicious policies, was educated at independent schools himself and so comes from the same class elite as Cameron.

Even Michael Gove has taken to the press to complain about the Eton elite in his own party. And there is a yearning to return the Tories to John Major's party of the "aspirational working class" by many backbenchers, who are cringing with the knowledge that by being the party of the "posh boys," power in 2015 is going to elude them.

George Osborne trumpeted his benefit cap in the Budget, thus effectively holding all future DWP ministers to ransom if the benefits bill tops £119 billion.

What remained unspoken is that disability benefits are included under the benefits cap. How can any civilised rich country like Britain impose a cap on now much help it will give to its own disabled people? Carer's allowance is also included. A double whammy for our disabled people and their carers, carers who are already saving the country billions and are scraping by on £59 per week. Despicable from Osborne.

And as for the childcare "tax giveaway" where both parents in work can claim a fifth of childcare costs, Osborne conveniently forgot to say he will claw this money back from within the universal credit budget.

Again, this is sneaky and underhand and something that was not in the press or widely reported but likely to be hidden under a pile of other news in the autumn statement.

Shapps has shown his posh-boy party up for what it is - an out-of-touch, inept, sexist bunch of rich opportunists and charlatans.

In 2015 this coalition must be booted out by the working class and hopefully replaced by a Labour Party that we must seek to influence from within, as Tony Benn once did, to change policy to benefit our workers, our poor and vulnerable - a Labour Party the poor and working poor can recognise.

n Bernadette Horton blogs at mumvausterity.blogspot.co.uk