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Reasons not to vote Tory

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Aladdinzane · 02/07/2024 16:16

As the Tory faithful here appear to be terrified of a Labour government ( judging by all the threads) lets remind ourselves for reasons not to vote Tory.

  1. Jacob Rees-Mogg: The Haunted Pencil, my most hoped for Portillo moment.
  2. Liz Truss: For being completely unhinged.
  3. 14 years of public sector decline.

Any more?

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RobinStrike · 03/07/2024 18:46

@MrsSkylerWhite Gary Neville owns loads of property in Manchester. In 2016 during the winter he housed homeless people for 3 months.
During Covid he housed NHS staff. More compassion than the govt.

Reasons not to vote Tory
neverbeenskiing · 03/07/2024 19:28

Their racist foreign policy. The Rwanda plan is not only morally repugnant, it is completely unworkable and not even remotely cost effective according to the gorvernments own figures. But in a mind-boggling mix of arrogance and stupidity they refuse to let it drop.

Their wanton destruction of our public services.

Our rivers are full of actual shit.

Their repeated attempts to demonise the people who work in those services when they have the audacity to complain about said wanton destruction.

Partygate. Not just the parties themselves but the subsequent cover up, the fact that they lied and lied and kept on lying even when it was obvious they'd been well and truly rumbled because they take the electorate for fools.

Rishi Sunak. The man who was caught on camera boasting about deliberately taking funding away from socioeconomically deprived areas and giving it to already affluent communities. He is so out of touch with the lives of the people he claims to represent, with his fresh out the box Adidas sambas and pretending to put petrol in someone else's car, this is a man who asked a homeless man at a fucking soup kitchen if he was "in business". The man who promised to restore integrity to politics and then gave Suella Braverman her job back after she left in disgrace having breached the ministerial code.

Suella Braverman. The woman is nothing short of a far-right extremist and she fucking terrifies me.

cupcaske123 · 03/07/2024 19:29

Suella Braverman. The woman is nothing short of a far-right extremist and she fucking terrifies me.

Completely agree. Horrific individual.

UnstablefromDunstable · 04/07/2024 00:18

A general reason: they are almost always inclined to look out for the people who least need anyone to look out for them and to be disconnected from those in most need.
A specific 2024 reason: every now and again a party has been in too long and it is just time to "give the other lot a go". It was true in 1997 and probably also in 2010. If it's not time again now after all the shambolic and dishonourable things that have happened in the last few years, we might as well give up on elections and say we want a one party state.

Clavinova · 04/07/2024 10:46

US2gether · 03/07/2024 15:34

BBC news latest

'Even Conservative backing newspapers, The Sun and The Times say vote Labour' 🐀 leaving a sinking ship springs to mind.

Only very die hard Tories seem to defend the indefensible now.

The Times has remained neutral as far as I can see - the Sunday Times has backed Labour.

jannier · 04/07/2024 16:25

Sending the elderly back to care homes to die is pretty high up.
PPE contracts
The lockdown doesn't apply to us.
Lies
Rowanda
Hungry children
Overworked underpaid NHS staff using food banks

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