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To think the Tories must actually want to loose the next election?

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malificent7 · 04/09/2023 09:18

School closures for repairs just before the term starts is bonkers. Are they now content with the amount of money they have plundered and now want Labour to inherit the mess or are they hoping that the dumb electorate will still vote for them or say " well the cost of living has hit everywhere...its nothing to do with Brexit?" Or " but boats."?
I don't get it.

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AdamRyan · 05/09/2023 21:46

Hmm. Yes because we are in so much of a better more stable situation now #sarcasm

I don't think this "Labour are shit with money" message is going to wash for any of the electorate under the age of about 60.

My first election was 1997, where ironically I voted Conservative, and I remember the Labour government as on the whole a far less financially stressful time. Despite working in the public sector, earning approx 1/3 what I earn now and having 3 children over their parliamentary term.

When they were voted out, they didn't leave behind them people dying on trolleys in the NHS and record homeless levels on the the streets. Something that was there in 1997 and is a feature again today.

We had "austerity" to rebalance the books and yet we still have record levels of national debt and councils going bankrupt.

As a result I trust the Conservatives on the economy far less than Labour

DuncinToffee · 05/09/2023 21:45

Talking about budgets one year ago Liz Truss was elected as the new Tory party leader....

Lastchancechica · 05/09/2023 21:37

Labour have always been utterly dire at managing budgets, and who can forget 2008? Labour spent every last penny.

Lastchancechica · 05/09/2023 21:36

Lookjaz · 05/09/2023 20:54

For those wishing for a Labour government, have you seen that Labour has bankrupted the UKs second City. They will do the same with the country.

Good point not a good look with their history.

AdamRyan · 05/09/2023 21:35

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/councils-bankruptcy-tax-uk-b2400419.html

Council underfunding is a structural underfunding problem, not a labour/conservative problem.

And I am not sure people will see the distinction between local and national politics at election time. If their local services have gone to shit they will expect their GE vote to help fix it.

Nearly a third of councils in poorest areas on verge of bankruptcy

A survey has found 14 of 47 councils in the North, the Midlands and on the south coast may go bust this year or next

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/councils-bankruptcy-tax-uk-b2400419.html

newnamethanks · 05/09/2023 21:27

It'll be whats left of the whole country up for a boot sale soon if the Tories don't get their sticky blue fingers prised off the Treasury chest.

Anxioys · 05/09/2023 21:22

@Lastchancechica - you mean you ran out of anything to say.

newnamethanks · 05/09/2023 21:20

Anyone been to Woking recently? Heart of Surrey. Bankrupt through property speculation.

Lastchancechica · 05/09/2023 21:19

Do we need we need resus equipment?
This thread is withering, and this is a normal reaction to anything that turns to Labour. It has that effect. Like halitosis. Empties the room on impact.

BIossomtoes · 05/09/2023 20:57

Lookjaz · 05/09/2023 20:54

For those wishing for a Labour government, have you seen that Labour has bankrupted the UKs second City. They will do the same with the country.

You mean like Tory Northamptonshire and Tory Walsall that went bust some time ago?

Lookjaz · 05/09/2023 20:54

For those wishing for a Labour government, have you seen that Labour has bankrupted the UKs second City. They will do the same with the country.

BIossomtoes · 05/09/2023 20:46

Anxioys · 05/09/2023 19:41

Why do you care @Lastchancechica - you can't vote for either in Ireland, can you?

Well spotted. I missed the Emerald Isle reference.

Piggywaspushed · 05/09/2023 19:42
Grin
newnamethanks · 05/09/2023 19:41

A swim? You've not been following the BBC coverage about sewage today? Better pick up some penicillin.

Anxioys · 05/09/2023 19:41

Why do you care @Lastchancechica - you can't vote for either in Ireland, can you?

Piggywaspushed · 05/09/2023 19:41

Forgot in poorly ventilated sweat boxes...

DuncinToffee · 05/09/2023 19:38

Lastchancechica · 05/09/2023 19:30

Just sunbathing actually! Went for a swim. You lot are seriously weird sometimes. You might want to sit on MN all day in the dark bleating about Labour, but some of us enjoy life here on these emerald isles especially when it is 30c!!! 😎😎

This is a thread about the Conservatives, you are the one who keeps mentioning Labour.

But now you are back, what is the eye watering woke Labour agenda?

Piggywaspushed · 05/09/2023 19:34

Some of us were at work asbestos exuding, rats in the cupboard, and concrete tumbling around our ears...

Lastchancechica · 05/09/2023 19:30

Just sunbathing actually! Went for a swim. You lot are seriously weird sometimes. You might want to sit on MN all day in the dark bleating about Labour, but some of us enjoy life here on these emerald isles especially when it is 30c!!! 😎😎

SerendipityJane · 05/09/2023 19:08

BIossomtoes · 05/09/2023 18:32

I guess 3.30 was the end of the shift.

17:30 Moscow time.

DuncinToffee · 05/09/2023 18:38

ilovesooty · 05/09/2023 18:35

@Lastchancechica has had nothing to offer but clichés, delusion, untruths and slander. No wonder she can't continue any debate.

It keeps the thread in active Wink

ilovesooty · 05/09/2023 18:35

@Lastchancechica has had nothing to offer but clichés, delusion, untruths and slander. No wonder she can't continue any debate.

BIossomtoes · 05/09/2023 18:32

I guess 3.30 was the end of the shift.

ilovesooty · 05/09/2023 18:31

Lastchancechica · 05/09/2023 15:23

I am bored now of this echo chamber and the sunlit uplands have literally just arrived ☀️

No attempt at the eye-watering woke agenda then.

I knew you'd have nothing to say.

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