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

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verdantverdure · 01/07/2024 23:35

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

What picture will you have in your mind as you vote the Tories out on Thursday.
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WindsurfingDreams · 02/07/2024 07:53

My 6 year old daughter drawing pictures of faces on balloons because she missed her friends on her birthday, while Boris and chums partied hard in Downing street

WindsurfingDreams · 02/07/2024 07:54

Or the illegal proroguing of parliament. Which we seem to have forgotten about now but which displayed a monstrous contempt for democracy and the law.

WindsurfingDreams · 02/07/2024 07:55

Or Liz Truss grinning inanely while announcing plans that would plunge a huge hole in the countries finances

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verdantverdure · 02/07/2024 07:57

Evenstar · 01/07/2024 23:59

This 😔

God.

Yeah.

Labour if you're reading this. Please find him and help him.

Help ALL of them.

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verdantverdure · 02/07/2024 08:00

KatPurrson · 02/07/2024 02:27

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.

Oh Christ that's just made a sob erupt from my throat and frightened the cat.

I can't bear it. Poor little sod.

(Please vote them out people. Please, please, please.)

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verdantverdure · 02/07/2024 08:04

NightPuffins · 02/07/2024 02:17

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 was a really hard time wasn't it? I'm so sorry you had an especially tough time of it.

I don't think they ever intended to follow the rules themselves. They were just for us. That's why they were so nonsensical and always chopping and changing.

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verdantverdure · 02/07/2024 08:05

user1471453601 · 02/07/2024 02:39

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.

Same. >nods<

Just giving a shit about ordinary people's lives will do for me.

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WindsurfingDreams · 02/07/2024 08:07

GreenTeaLikesMe · 02/07/2024 05:44

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.

For me, we shouldnt impose rules on other people that we aren't prepared to live by.

itsgettingweird · 02/07/2024 08:09

Every single image of Braverman walking around my town for the past decade.

I'll be ecstatic to see her go 🤞

BobnLen · 02/07/2024 08:11

Breaking Covid rules and partying but I am not voting for Labour, I'm voting for Reform

itsgettingweird · 02/07/2024 08:12

For me, we shouldnt impose rules on other people that we aren't prepared to live by.

100% this for me too.

It smacks of such disrespect that we couldn't mix (rightly so) to save granny, ndn, parents etc but they thought they could because ......

I'm not sure we really know why but I suspect because they think they are a cut above us mere mortals

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verdantverdure · 02/07/2024 08:15

GreenTeaLikesMe · 02/07/2024 05:44

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.

If the Tories had been following the rules they had set I think they would've have me more understanding of what it was like for people and made better ones.

Instead they fostered the kind of atmosphere where the police menaced middle aged ladies for having a takeaway coffee.

My friend had a really hard time of it but she didn't want to let the country down by being "a rule breaker" so it was hard to get her to do things that were within the rules in case we'd got the rules wrong or what we did was misconstrued, or the bloody police turned up and said we couldn't walk on the same pavement and gave a conversation.

My parents were advised to shield and told to stay at home and I honestly don't think there was any reason why they couldn't have gone out for the same daily walk as the rest of us. But again, they didn't want to let the country down.

I'm making myself angry just thinking back to it.

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verdantverdure · 02/07/2024 08:17

WindsurfingDreams · 02/07/2024 07:53

My 6 year old daughter drawing pictures of faces on balloons because she missed her friends on her birthday, while Boris and chums partied hard in Downing street

Oh god.

This has set me off.

Poor baby Sad

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BobnLen · 02/07/2024 08:17

GreenTeaLikesMe · 02/07/2024 05:44

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.

That the rules should have been different/not existed.

Pikapikapikachu11 · 02/07/2024 08:19

MoonshineSon · 01/07/2024 23:48

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

She was one in a billion. What a lady.

My dad died of cancer in March 2022. You can imagine what our family went through the run up to him passing away.

Whilst they partied.

Clavinova · 02/07/2024 08:19

MoonshineSon · 01/07/2024 23:39

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.

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On the same day? Which day was that? The first Downing Street gathering was 15 May 2020. This Labour MP and Labour Mayor attended a party 10 May 2020;

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/18484861.mp-kevan-jones-defends-decision-attend-100th-birthday-party-lockdown/

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verdantverdure · 02/07/2024 08:20

itsgettingweird · 02/07/2024 08:09

Every single image of Braverman walking around my town for the past decade.

I'll be ecstatic to see her go 🤞

🤞

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Nailedit1111 · 02/07/2024 08:20

So. Many. Things.

The faces of two dear family friends, a couple in their eighties, who died within weeks of each other after getting Covid in the third wave that was caused by Sunak's Eat Out To Help Out…
My only child DD crying outside the school gates, too scared to go in, because her mental health was damaged by not seeing another kid for months in lockdowns…
The state of my bank balance since my finances were decimated during the pandemic because I am SE…
My dad's face when he winces with pain because he needs a hip replacement and the waiting list is two years…
My teacher DP working himself to exhaustion because of the insane workload…
The queue outside our local food bank getting longer and longer with each passing week…
The face of Boris Johnson when he lied and lied and lied about everything…
The Disney mural at the centre for child immigrants that was painted over on the orders of Robert Jenrick…
The Queen sitting on her own at her husband's funeral while the Tories partied…
Jacob Rees Mogg reclining in the Houses of Parliament like he didn't have a care in the world…

I could go on, but I'd be here all day.

DinnaeFashYersel · 02/07/2024 08:21

Postal vote already done.

I've voted the SNP out and felt righteous and smug.

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verdantverdure · 02/07/2024 08:22

BobnLen · 02/07/2024 08:11

Breaking Covid rules and partying but I am not voting for Labour, I'm voting for Reform

"Voting the Tories out" is a broad church lovely Grin I'm voting Lib Dem.

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Clavinova · 02/07/2024 08:24

MoonshineSon · 01/07/2024 23:48

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

Boris Johnson was 40 miles away at Chequers that evening - the BBC and the Sue Gray report confirmed he wasn't in residence at Number 10 at the time.

Shortfatsuit · 02/07/2024 08:27

I will be thinking about the queues near my local foodbank, which didn't exist before the Tories came to power because it wasn't needed. Those queues have just kept getting longer and longer, and the types of people using them have become more and more varied. So many people struggling to meet this most basic need.

I'll also be thinking of the face of my smug Tory MP who can't be arsed to respond to letters from her constituents.

RitaAndFrank · 02/07/2024 08:27

All the people that have taken their lives thanks to a total erosion of mental health services, including two of my dc’s peers.

The Brexit referendum which was selfishly used by Cameron as a vote winner and has led to our country being worse off.

The headteacher who took her own life due to needless and mercenary pressures within the education system. And all the children whose education has suffered due to a crumbling education system.

My 96 year old granny who had to wait 8 hours for an ambulance while lying on the bathroom floor.

The double dealings and corruption which has led to the likes of Mone and Rees Mogg getting richer while children live and die in poverty.

The countless cases of Covid-related tragedy as a result of isolation and social distancing while Boris and chums partied.

The damage dealt by Truss.

The fact that fuel and food prices have been allowed to swell while nothing is done to regulate them and to stop the rich profiteers from benefiting from ordinary people’s misery.

I could go on but it’s too early for these levels of anger I’m feeling …

1dayatatime · 02/07/2024 08:30

Actually I'm not angry or disgusted by the way the Tories behaved during COVID , I kind of expected it from arrogant out of touch politicians that think they operate on different rules to everyone else.

What does make me angry and disgusted is how so many ordinary people that I know well and still see went along with the policies and actively supported it. Facebook pages informing in neighbours, rainbow support our key workers flags, pot banging.

Honestly the world went collectively mad and it was like being in 1930s Germany.

Nailedit1111 · 02/07/2024 08:30

RitaAndFrank · 02/07/2024 08:27

All the people that have taken their lives thanks to a total erosion of mental health services, including two of my dc’s peers.

The Brexit referendum which was selfishly used by Cameron as a vote winner and has led to our country being worse off.

The headteacher who took her own life due to needless and mercenary pressures within the education system. And all the children whose education has suffered due to a crumbling education system.

My 96 year old granny who had to wait 8 hours for an ambulance while lying on the bathroom floor.

The double dealings and corruption which has led to the likes of Mone and Rees Mogg getting richer while children live and die in poverty.

The countless cases of Covid-related tragedy as a result of isolation and social distancing while Boris and chums partied.

The damage dealt by Truss.

The fact that fuel and food prices have been allowed to swell while nothing is done to regulate them and to stop the rich profiteers from benefiting from ordinary people’s misery.

I could go on but it’s too early for these levels of anger I’m feeling …

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I get your anger. I can feel hot, furious tears building reading this thread. The damage the Tories have inflicted on the economy and our collective mental health will take years to reverse. And so much of it was for their own self-serving interests.