Sorry for typos I am not feeling well but really wanted to post.
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but people often associate the Tories with supporting the new business and the self-employed. I think this is a myth. The tories do not support the average person on the street at all.
Many recent Tory policies will have a very negative affect on the self employed eg the plans to cut a class of National Insurance that will affect the self employed's ability to qualify for social security benefits like ESA for being off sick, and even the state pension and so make them more vulnerable than the employed, all in the name of simplificiation. The gov have not said what if anything they will do to allow people from being able to pay towards their entitlements as the employed can.
This will make many families very vulnerable and because it is not well publicised, by the time they realise, it could be too late for many. How many self employed can afford private insurance?
Also, the self employed lose out severley under Universal Credit eg pension contributions not being taken into account in the same way the employed contributions are so the SE are worse off in comparison, and also rules regarding calculating cash flow and profit are desinged to make claimants fall foul of claim limits far too easily when they could be earning a moderate income, the rules of cash flow will prodcue an unrepresentative figure. Sorry, I havenlt they energy to explain more cleary but I beg you to look this up if you need to.
These policies attack enterprise and small family/ sole trader businesses and one could argue will serve to drive more people into employed work - who benefits? The shareholders of big business
Ditto the failure to equalise tax revenue between small and big business. Due to loopholes etc small busniesses pay more tax and the majority of the wealth in the country is removed into the hands of a share hokders who grow increasingly wealthy. Look at the rising gap between rich and poor and the huge rise of the top 1%.
I believe money needs to be kept within our own economy - spending not austerity, paying our workers to give social care etc, and making sure the profits of business are reinvested in our economy.
I also believe it is dangerous to allow certain countries to have financial control over our infrastructure eg the chinese owned/ funded nuclear power staitons, and ludicrous that foreign (often state) owned companies making money from our other power generating plants. We are just helping other countires to get richer, while we get poorer.
The Tories are so damagin to the majority of British people - they only care about making the richer richer.
Thank you if you read this..Soory again for typos - I'm not well today! Wish MN had a spellchecker!