What picture will you have in your mind as you vote the Tories out on Thursday.

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Robert Jenrick painting out the Disney mural in asylum accommodation for unaccompanied children is mine.

I always think of the parents of the young teen who died of covid in the first lock down. They weren't allowed to hold his hand or be with him as he died. This was on the same day that Boris Johnson had a fucking party. That he then lied about.

Yes, that’s a big one. So brutal and sad. For me, it was the people named in Liz Truss’s resignation honours list being admitted to the Lords. You do that to everyone’s mortgages and tank the economy and … get rewarded for ever?? Unbelievable.

Also Jacob Rees Mogg lounging on the benches. So arrogant.

This one

Andrea Jenkyns sticking her middle finger up at the press
The woman who laughed about the parties while giving a speech

And this (apologies for the 🤢)

Not just the Queen, but all the other people who went through this while they were bringing booze in the back door of Downing Street.

Oh and the queen alone at the funeral of her husband. A day after Johnson was at another party

I will be glad to see the back of them my dad passed away in lockdown and we were only allowed to see him once despite the fact he didn’t have Covid. They stole that time from me. All of this happened while they ducking partied!!

The petty rules and laws that led to Sarah Everard getting into that monsters car.

The dream of Michelle Mone’s yacht sinking!

This 😔

Same... it happened not far from where I live..

I can take cruel and divisive. I can just about swallow incompetent. But a person who does this is all those things and also thick. And thick, in a person who professes to govern this country, is unforgivable.

When all those things are listed one after the other like that it paints a really damning picture. Such despicable, dreadful, entitled, shocking and cruel behaviour.

I live alone. I did not see nor speak to another real human being for the first 12 weeks of lockdown because we were told to stay at home and not mix. My mental health has still not really recovered from that forced complete isolation. All while the government has parties.

It’s not a picture, it’s a sound. A woman who was a teacher called in to a radio station and spoke about one of her primary age pupils.

They did potato printing for art and he asked what would happen to the offcuts of the potatoes. When she said they would get thrown away, he asked to take them to help his mum because there wasn’t much food at home.

Your lockdown stories really are so very sad. When others shrug and say they aren't bothered about the parties I think about that young teenager and his parents, the one who died alone.

I also think about our neighbour whose partner was about to go into a hospice, and the fact they felt in any way compelled to text us to say their grandchildren would be allowed into their home to say their goodbyes, though they knew this was against the law, they hoped we understood. If course we did, but the fact that this was on their mind when their partner was in such a sad state, really upset me. And meanwhile that incompetent bafoon partied on.

Yes, I'll be thinking of that and Jenrick with the cartoons, and the thousands of ££ Truss out on people's mortgages and all the other cruel and nasty things they've done, on Thursday night. I'm not expecting " sunny uplands" from a change of government, fuck charisma, or lack of, I want competence and compassion.

I had no particular image in my head as I sent the postal vote - just felt very tired of the lot of them generally.

A lot of the people here are talking about lockdown rules. Is it a case of "I think the rules should not have existed/been different" or is it a case of "I agree with the rules, I just think BJ should have followed them as well?"

Because, if my mental health has collapsed as a result of COVID (it didn't, I'm just using this as an example), presumably that would have happened regardless of whether BJ partied or not.

Tragic. So sorry.

It's the lack of compassion that was so bad. One person on their own should have been allowed to bubble from the start.

And yes it's also about the fact that we all worked hard to keep the rules then found out that the government didn't.

We are another family that lost a close family member and weren't allowed to go and see them.

Our dwindling armed forces

A neighbour died of cancer during Covid times and would have had a huge turnout at his funeral if it had been allowed. Instead his friends could only stand spaced apart along our street and applaud as his hearse left with just his wife and children accompanying him.

This while BJ and his cronies were partying.