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To remind ourselves of what the Tories have done since 2010...

148 replies

Dabralor · 30/06/2024 22:26

...it seems like there are lots of conservative voices bots currently starting threads about how terrifying a labour govt will be.

In the interest of balance, I thought it would be useful to have a list of terrifying things the Tories have already done.

I'll start thus:

Brexit (we aren't supposed to think of this as an election issue but it's shite so I will)

Partygate

The COVID ppe scandal

... Would anyone like to add any more?

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Anonym00se · 30/06/2024 22:58

iamtheblcksheep · 30/06/2024 22:36

Nearly bankrupted the country
Crashed the housing market
Raided pension funds ruining retirement for a generation

Oh wait no that was labour in the years before they got kicked to the curb last time. People have short memories.

Really, I thought it was a result of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which sent shockwaves around the world and in turn, fucked our economy. I didn’t realise that the Labour Party were responsible for the global crisis.

(In fairness, they should have regulated the banks. And remind me, did the Tories rectify banking regulations over their past 14 years in charge?)

Churchview · 30/06/2024 22:59

Jacob Rees Mogg saying that the people who followed advice and stayed put in the burning Grenfell Tower lacked common sense.

OrwellianTimes · 30/06/2024 23:00

Fluffyowl00 · 30/06/2024 22:41

Told everyone during the cost of living crisis we should eat turnips

I missed that one.

Sounds like a plan so cunning you could stick a tail on it and call it a fox.

Dabralor · 30/06/2024 23:02

I honestly don't understand the argument about Blair and Brown being awful during the 2000s therefore we shouldn't vote for Kier Starmer, who is a completely different person.

It's like saying 'i bought alpen in Sainsbury's in 2007- it was naff so I'm never buying tinned peaches there again. Ever!'

Just don't understand that.

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Garlicnaan · 30/06/2024 23:03

bozzabollix · 30/06/2024 22:48

Yep me too. The Conservative record on supporting women is dismal, off the top of my head there’s these things:

A Met policeman rapes and kills a woman, women understandably protest about this, there’s footage of police abusing women at the demo. The Met is riddled with misogyny, nothing important is done.

Rape convictions are something like 1% end in conviction, that’s a lot of rapists getting away with the crime, hence me not believing that men need to wear skirts to rape women. They do just fine without them.

The CSA is gutless and crap, how many women do we see on here saying that their partner has taken off and left them without support? This could be improved with a political will to do so.

The burden of austerity fell disproportionately upon vulnerable women, did the Tories give a fuck? Hell no.

The trans movement so many of you hate on here, under Tory watch. How have they proved ‘they know what a woman is’ over the past 14 years you’ve bitterly complained about? It isn’t rational, they’ve been in government and you’re about to sign us up for yet more. Their record so far is what they have to give you. Don’t believe the pro Tory bullshit. The only liking they have for women is shagging and leaving them in the case of bloody Johnson.

To add to this, they've sacked off Net Zero goals, and climate change disproportionately impacts women and children.

Oh and sent weapons to Israel army for their "war" - which has resulted in tens of thousands of dead women and children.

Garlicnaan · 30/06/2024 23:04

Dabralor · 30/06/2024 23:02

I honestly don't understand the argument about Blair and Brown being awful during the 2000s therefore we shouldn't vote for Kier Starmer, who is a completely different person.

It's like saying 'i bought alpen in Sainsbury's in 2007- it was naff so I'm never buying tinned peaches there again. Ever!'

Just don't understand that.

Yeah. And whatever you think of Blair, and understandably a lot of people felt betrayed by the Iraq war, under the last Labour govt we saw significantly reduced child poverty in this country.

Garibaldhead · 30/06/2024 23:05

40 new hospitals 🐂💩

Jakadaal · 30/06/2024 23:06

Used our elderly relatives in care homes as collateral or 'natural wastage' as part of the expected death toll. The phrase 'wr have thrown a ring of steel around our elderly' still makes me sick to the stomach. I lost my 93 year old DF but worse still my DM, his wife of 2 months shy of 70 years, had to say goodbye to him through a window 😡😡

Garlicnaan · 30/06/2024 23:06

Tories (well the Tory coalition) also killed Sure Start. As well as kids, that impacted mums.

Chocoloca · 30/06/2024 23:06

Not closing border sooner despite getting warnings from Italy at the start of Covid. Johnson minimising covid by claiming he shook hands with covid patients in the hospital.

Lying about benefits of brexit.

Grannywithnoplanny · 30/06/2024 23:07

Introduced strict austerity measures, decimating provision of public services because national debt was around 1 trillion pounds when they came into power....
......
..... Increased national debt to 2.6 trillion pounds

That's a buttload more debt and most people now can't see a dentist on the NHS at all and can only see a doctor by turning up at a&e with a tent, thermos flask, and 3 days worth of picnics.

Those guys!

SlopeT · 30/06/2024 23:07

Moonshine5 · 30/06/2024 22:31

Liz truss budget

Next to Brexit, the biggest fuck up of the lot.

SlopeT · 30/06/2024 23:08

HS2 shambles. Smart Motorways shambles. Train franchise shambles.

SlopeT · 30/06/2024 23:10

Putting Asylum seekers in hotels and picking up the tab.

Help out to eat out Covid spreading masterclass.

Fluffyowl00 · 30/06/2024 23:11

Ah thanks OP. This thread really has made up for eleventy billion VAT/what a woman is pseudo posts. Great thread.

AnnaL94 · 30/06/2024 23:12

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Can’t have too much Tory bashing.

#FuckTheTories

Judgedbycats · 30/06/2024 23:14

All of the above.

Windrush.

HashtagShitShop · 30/06/2024 23:14

Braverman wanting to have homeless people arrested for being homeless, living in a tent (wanting said tent to be forcibly removed) and for even "being a bit smelly".

Wanting murals in children's detention centers to be painted over, god forbid they be comforted by seeing a friendly picture.

Attacking striking workers rather than talk with them and attempt compromises rather than real term cuts.

Selling the NHS off to private providers bit by bit

Assumed healthcare workers could be paid in claps during a pandemic

Treat food bank openings like they should be celebrated, not that they're a sad fact of life under this government and the usage has increased by thousands.

I realise this is successive governments and not just the tories but the infected blood scandal, post office compensation for post masters etc etc. They promised to end it and have a fair compensation deal arranged for these poor people. Of course they haven't.

Made pmqs into a bingo game with "yeah but Jeremy Corbyn...." years after he left.

Removing the sick note from the gp who knows the patient and cares for them to an outside organisation. We all know how crap they are... (medicals for benefits anyone? Paid bonuses to find people well or to turn them down.)

Numerous mps accused of sexual misconduct and a pm who can't keep it in his trousers.

Could be here all night at this rate.

AnnaL94 · 30/06/2024 23:15

💩

To remind ourselves of what the Tories have done since 2010...
Fluffyowl00 · 30/06/2024 23:17

Where I work (Cheshire) there is a long road which always has a sea of blue along it come the elections.

I have a young child so go around in a bit of a blur, but I had a little chuckle at one lone vote labour plaque on one corner. ‘Haha,
they’ve just moved up from London’ I thought.

Except when I drove home I realised the sea of blue isn’t there this time. In fact. There was not a single conservative flag/poster/anything about ANYWHERE.

🤞

Anonym00se · 30/06/2024 23:17

Don’t forget 30p Lee Anderson and miracle household budgeting tips.

ChrisS36 · 30/06/2024 23:18

Legalised gay marriage.

Reformed divorce law.

CranfordScones · 30/06/2024 23:21

Brexit wasn't a Conservative action. They were doing what the majority voted for, as any good government should.

Partygate is a bit of a non-issue. It gave a very bad impression, yes. But how did it affect the lives of voters? It's unrelated to any executive action carried out by the government. Hardly a consideration at election time.

The Conservatives are hardly the party of austerity when you look at how much the national debt has grown in the past decade. That's an issue we should all worry about. And Labour aren't exactly renowned for their fiscal restraint...

TurtleMoon · 30/06/2024 23:23

Fluffyowl00 · 30/06/2024 23:17

Where I work (Cheshire) there is a long road which always has a sea of blue along it come the elections.

I have a young child so go around in a bit of a blur, but I had a little chuckle at one lone vote labour plaque on one corner. ‘Haha,
they’ve just moved up from London’ I thought.

Except when I drove home I realised the sea of blue isn’t there this time. In fact. There was not a single conservative flag/poster/anything about ANYWHERE.

🤞

I live in a Labour/ Tory marginal seat (currently Labour). There are Labour posters everywhere, from the extremely wealthy burbs to the more working class areas. The odd Greens poster as well. I have literally not seen a single Conservatives poster. Their prospects are so dire that they're not even trying to win back a seat that Labour held onto with fewer than 1000 votes difference last time. They're fucked and they know it. Just deserts