@andymary
"Let's just forget the dramatic increase in funding to the NHS and MOD. The dramatic increase to minimum wages twice. The reduction in NI twice. The millions of people who had their jobs saved during Covid with furlough. The Rwanda plan. Stability during a war crisis."
NHS funding has not increased in real terms, or in per capita terms, over the last 14 years. Increasing funding from "not enough" to "a little more than not enough" doesn't solve the problem of underinvestment in NHS staff, building and equipment. Germany invests 30% more per head per annum on healthcare - has minimal waiting lists and as Covid revealed, has far more ITU beds, ventilators, hospital beds in general and more staff per capita. This had a direct impact on the numbers that survived Covid compared with the UK. Austria has almost twice as many doctors per capita as the UK, which has one of the lowest levels in Europe and the OECD.
The MOD has wasted what money it was given on aircraft carriers that can't get any further than the Solent, have no planes and no pilots. Alongside tanks and other vehicles that break down and put their occupants in danger.
Minimum wage rate per hour has increased, but not necessarily minimum wages. If a cafe can only afford to pay someone £300 a week, then as the minimum wage rate has increased, the number of hours has been reduced, so the employee still only earns £300. Wages in real terms have not increased since the government came to power in 2010.
Reducing NI is nonsense-economics, introduced by Chancellors whose knowledge of economics can be written on the back of a postage stamp. By reducing the tax available to the Treasury, they reduce the money available for the NHS, MOD, schools, policing, infrastructure etc. - further destroying vital public services so that their chums can earn higher profits.
The government's Covid measures did indeed save jobs - every government in Europe did this, and if Labour had been in government, they too would have been forced to do this. Sunak is never as keen to mention the disaster that was "Eat Out to Peg Out" or the billions lost by his support schemes that were an open invitation to fraudsters (and that he deemed too difficult to even attempt to prosecute and reclaim).
The Rwanda Plan? WTF? £240 million and counting spaffed on a scheme that has yet to send a single person to Rwanda (quite apart from the moral and legal issues of such an appalling policy). Mr Kagame says thank you. The local luxury car dealerships are rubbing their hands in anticipation.
Stability in a war crisis? Is the UK at war? Who with and since when?
I'm curious as to why people would have forfeited all of that and preferred to have a different party. What would they have done better?
I'm curious as to why anyone thinks that what the Conservative shits, shysters and charlatans have "achieved" over the last 14 years is anything to cheer about. Greater inequality. Public services underfunded and on the point of collapse. Rivers and beaches full of shit (while their chums pay themselves billions in dividends), housing unaffordable (and again, Tory chums and donors are reporting record profits). How could anyone actually have done worse than this shower?