Reasons not to vote Tory

I do have some respect for certain Tory MPs, I think Sajid Javid had done amazing ideas in his short time as health minister. I hope that he sees sense and joins Labour.
But come on! The likes of Rees Mogg? Really?

so by this rationale I assume you’d rather keep the Tories in because no other politician could ever be expected to behave with more integrity or humanity??!!

they don’t take away your soul at Politician school.

there are decent people out there in the world who are also MPs - it’s just that after 14 years of Tory self serving rule this is what we all now are conditioned to expect.

this is so unbelievably sad.

Oh yes! That's another for the list, Brexit.

PadstowGirl · Today 10:50
Moier · Today 10:46

Gosh.. l am voting Tory.
I need my pension protecting.
I want a better future for my Grandson.

Might I suggest he emigrates?

To where? Brexit’s buggered most young people.

What exactly do you believe Labour is going to do to your pension, Moier? and why?

Might I suggest he emigrates?

Big Society. Get charities and volunteers to take over the role of the state. Shut down the state run services and facilities, defund the charities.

Using disabled people as a scapegoat. See also refugees, the EU, immigrants...

Voting against a bill that would force rental housing to be fit for human habitation.

Scrapping the school building improvement/up keep plan and waiting for the buildings to fall down instead.

Scrapping the plan to offer affordable wrap around care at all primary schools.

Michael Gove's adoption targets. Pretty much everything Michael Gove did with education. For starters.

Gosh.. l am voting Tory.
I need my pension protecting.
I want a better future for my Grandson.

3 more!

ARRS funding, meaning GP practices get extra money to recruit staff, but only if the staff aren't doctors or nurses 😖. Who thought this up?

Doctors pay: £15 an hour is a disgrace. My DC earns less per hour as an intensive care nurse than they did in Macdonald's as a teenager.

Pharmacy first! Except don't pay the pharmacists anymore money for this. My poor sister had a queue of 18 people one morning, in addition to doing her actual job of making up prescriptions.

This.

So many don't judge tories on what they did wring, kerp forgiving them, and they want more time.

Yet so many raise hypothetical scenarios and want to judge Labour on them.

Odd. Yet it keeps happening. Focus on what has happened over the last 14 years rather than what might or might not happen. Facts not make believe.

The thought of Suella Braverman as PM.

My dishonest local MP currently embroiled in an expenses mess.

The fuck up in the NHS, dentistry, social care, education. Bloody pot holes everywhere!
8 hour wait for an ambulance to assess my mum after a fall and get her off the floor. I'd happily pay more tax to live in a country with functioning public services.

Water companies making record profits instead of being held to account for the sewage in our rivers.

HS2 and the millions wasted on that.

Rwanda plan, and the millions wasted on that.

Never mind voting for these people, they should be held to account and be bloody well punished for complete ineptitude.

In 2010 60,000 people used food banks. According to government's own figures 3% of people -approx 2 million- live in a household where food banks have been used. That's 2021/22 figures. More recent are t yet available.

I did not say that. I cannot judge labour on hypothetical scenarios.

But I absolutely will judge the Tories on things they did actually do. They have proved themselves to be unworthy of leading this country

@HowIrresponsible true that PFI was a disaster, but in the previous 20 years only 4 hospitals were built. Under Labour 104 were built, at the time PFI was the only public private method on offer and where else could they find the money after such massive underfunding?

According to the Children's' Commissioner the last Labour government removed a million children from absolute and relative poverty.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says more than a million children are in absolute poverty now and that six million people would need to more than double their income to move out of hardship.

Any evidence to back up what you're saying? I can speak words too. It doesn't mean they're correct. For example 30 percent of children are in poverty. The figure has climbed drastically since the Labour government.

PFI contracts - nhs hospitals are still in debt paying billions to private companies for their fancy new hospitals.

Baby P, Victoria Climbie for a start- both occurred under labour governments.

They don’t actually deserve another chance. Why give them one?

The last Labour gov admitted they failed on child poverty and hospitals were underfunded and in crisis.

Any evidence of that? Recollections and stats speak differently.

And you think no labour politician would have broken a single rule.

How naive you are to assume they're going to be such total angels

I work for the nhs. Supporting front line staff, I saw first hand how it affected patients and staff.

And while they were struggling, Johnson and his cronies partied. The night before Prince Phillip's funeral they were partying. The Queen sat on her own at her husband's funeral, whilst those who made the rules ignored them and laughed in our faces.

You don't think covid and courts being closed for that long caused a backlog to clear just like the NHS?

You were all happy for closures at the time as long as you got to be furlouged and do fuck all on full pay.

The consequences are here.

Or do you seriously think you can cancel public services for the best part of a 1-2 years and there be no impact?

They've fucked the criminal justice system, cases taking years to get to court, courts being unusable due to raac concrete, police forces being told to arrest fewer people as there's no room in prison, prisoners being released early due to no space

When they took over UK had 29 Billionaires
We now have 177 Billionaires
The rest of us are on average £11k/ year worse off suffering the highest taxes in 70 years.
It's clear which side their bread is buttered
(To be fair I got that from Jonathan pie and haven’t fact checked but I'd be surprised if he put stuff out that's not acturate)

Edit - just realised @cardibach already posted the video I got that from! the video obvioulsy has much more but that's the bit that jumped out at me!

Wheeling out Bozo Boris yesterday. That lying joke that some people listen to because 'he's funny and has a personality that is jovial' you can't make this ridiculous stuff up. People want clowns and surprisingly get clowns 🤡.

Steady, dull but competent shouldn't be seen as a negative. Upside down thinking.

They're shit?
They keep forgetting NI exists.

Yeeooo Brexit. Oops forgot about NI and the GFA.
Yeeooo Rwanda! Oops, forgot about NI and the GFA. Again.
Yeeoo National Service! Oops, forgot about... Ah fuck that.

The continued dehumanisation of disabled people via PIP "assessments".