Tories lose over 1000 seats in local elections

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noblegiraffe · 05/05/2023 19:24

Which was their damage limitation number so when they lost 800 they could say 'we've not done as badly as we feared'.

AIBU to be cracking open the champagne while they try to figure out how the hell they can put a positive spin on this?

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itsgettingweird · 09/05/2023 16:20

Florenz · 09/05/2023 13:03

If you work hard AND take advantage of opportunities available to you, you'll be richer than someone who started off in the same position as you that didn't work hard and didn't take advantage of opportunities available to you.

You don't get many stockbrokers playing golf at two in the afternoon. Doctors, maybe.

But the issue is that there is a massive gap in who gets the opportunity offered to them.

Caused by years (over a decade) of underfunding education.

I believe if everyone had those opportunities they'd take them.

I don't know anyone who thinks "I'd love to live my life trying to juggle my pay rents, utilities, bills and childcare. So I'll ignore that opportunity I'm given".

PinkCherryBlossoms · 10/05/2023 14:07

Xenia · 09/05/2023 14:13

Certainly it is vital for any Tories on here not to change parties. Don't let us split the Tory vote in any ay shape or form. Obviously given the swing of the pendulum an fact Labour last won in 2005 it is likely Labour might well win (which will mean massive extra taxes for many of us which we cannot afford given we have the highest tax burden for 70 years do to this very socialist high spending Tory party in charge) but splitting the Tory vote in any way will make it even more of a chance Labour obtain an element of power . Hopefuly Labour will not win a majority nor even enough to be in a coalition but every Tory vote counts. So do start now checking if you have voter ID, ensuring Tory teenage children register etc etc.

This is just an irredeemably stupid take, when the Tories plan is clearly to keep squeezing PAYE earners and leaving those with real wealth alone.

It's one thing if you don't want to vote Labour. But the party you're bigging up here are presiding over a system riddled with cliff edges, with marginal tax rates of well over 50% for some people at some points, and they evidently intend to bring more of the population into cliff edge territory via fiscal drag. They created one of the stupidest examples of this all by themselves in the child benefit withdrawal thresholds, meanwhile there are young graduates whose effective marginal tax rates are twice as high as those of the billionaire you want to keep in as PM. Fuck that.

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