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.

Angry and disgusted because the public did what they thought was the right thing to save lives? 232k people have died from Covid in the UK. That's not a small number.

Same. I was four months out of an abusive marriage. Thanks to lovely people here.
But then covid hit and we were told no mixing etc ... I didn't feel safe to go out in deserted streets , only safe to be in crowds in case he got me. So I stayed home .. in silence for all that time .
In the end I was very close to a breakdown and calling my ex.
All the time the government thought it was ok for them to break rules.
I know I'd of died if I had gone back to ex. But that's what isolation does to you.
They have no shame.

This thread is really moving.

I'll think about how the government had to be shamed by a footballer into feeding hungry children, but merrily handed billions of pounds to their rich friends for PPE that didn't work.

Never enough money for public services, always plenty to funnel into their own pockets.

Remember when their "true Tory budget" would've collapsed the pension funds and only didn't because a £65BILLION bailout saved them.

I'm SO sorry @TheDutchHouse. I don't know how you managed to get through that but I'm really glad you did.

Rishi Sunak leaving D Day commemorations early.
Crass and completely ignorant of British interests.

You can feel what you like, but some of this is just nonsense. I did not vote for Bojo, but he got us vaccinated as quickly as he could and that was faster than lots of other countries. Lockdowns were in force in loads of countries - this was a rational decision based on information available. The fact that they partied has nothing to do with people dying alone. We lost MIL in 2020 and FIL in 2021 - both died alone and we couldn’t go to MIL’s funeral. “We” are 66 million people and “they” are a handful who were at work whilst lots of the population watched everything on Netflix and took endless walks whilst receiving government money to do so. So their parties are irrelevant - even though they are also hypocritical and wrong. They also made pop up hospitals and had loads of people on ventilators (my teacher db included).

the references to brexit - Cameron told us to vote remain. Corbyn said nothing. The idiotic electorate voted for Brexit.

there is no denying that we are in an utter shitshow disaster right now and I am not advocating voting for tories. But to blindly vote labour and think that Starmer is the saviour shows a total lack of critical thinking. My teacher db was assaulted by a pupil in a lesson, facilities were destroyed. In 2007. It
was not utopia when labour were in - very very serious problems were already deeply set in. They introduced university tuition fees as well. In the present day, they are inciting divisiveness and they plan on rescuing us with “non dom” and private school cash. Let’s see how that turns out.

I can’t think too hard about the impact on my parents (father passed of covid in Jan 21 in hospital alone, leaving my mum in ill health as well as devastated) as I’d get too angry - what gets me is my parents didn’t enjoy lockdown but were totally on board with doing what they were told to do, supportive of Boris/Tories generally and honestly believed our leaders were leading with integrity. That the rules were just for us plebs never occurred to them - I didn’t even tell my mum my dad had covid as it would have piled further upset and misery on her when I had to tell her from 2 yards away as she was in care home rehab at that point. The rules may well have been the same under a different gov’t/leader but I could better accept that if they hadn’t then just taken the p!ss out of it all themselves.
Otherwise thinking food banks are uplifting or some sort of lifestyle choice - like homelessness - without even thinking more deeply about these issues, or at least being concerned a tiny bit, and invest in finding a real ‘excuse’ if it can’t be their fault!
Wasting incredible amounts of cash and not caring - plus not ever apologising for Liz.
Wasting incredible amounts of cash on Rwanda policy, which is just a grotesque idea, but equally even if workable totally financially non viable or useful, and not acknowledging their own lack of investment in asylum services that led to this point. Staying on holiday whilst Kabul fell was also pretty lax.
Ruining our waterways and seas - again not even the bother to acknowledge it is appalling.
I could write a novel probably but the main theme is the downright don’t give a toss about any of it really - I don’t really like the policies but the don’t care/can’t be bothered/me me me being amazing attitude is beyond appalling.
I do find them overall like a bunch of school kids set free to trial their ideas, no listening to others, no proper work on any policy to desired outcome, as basically they seem to see any poor outcome as well no worries if it affects others but not them.

We have food banks in Godalming now. GODALMING.

FullFact
These claims are inaccurate and misleading.

With the help of Full Fact’s artificial intelligence fact checking tools, we’ve also identified claims made in social media posts by some politicians such as shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves and Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Olney and which mention the £65 billion figure, though did not go as far as explicitly stating the money had been spent.

https://fullfact.org/economy/bank-of-england-65-billion-gilts-mini-budget/

This graph. The legacy of austerity physically written into our children.

The till snapping shut behind all those who have had their hands in it.

Just came on to say this. Epitome of entitled prick

Jesus @noblegiraffe I would weep if this thread hadn't made me cry three times already today.

Talk about nit pit.
He was in charge. He made the rules, he managed the teams, he created or at least allowed the culture which bred the parties. He could have been on sodding Mars at the time but he was ultimately responsible.

My friend had serious mental health issues before lockdown.
His church was closed, his day centre closed, all the routine things that made his day to day possible dried up without warning.
He died alone in his flat from an overdose during the first lockdown.

I suppose that sacrifice was one on millions made by ordinary people doing their best to follow rules. Hard to bear, but harder because we now know what those in power were up to.

Johnson and his team should have been beyond reproach. They would have been beyond reproach if they were decent people who understood the sacrifice other's made.

People aren't going to forgive this just because Johnson was languishing at (one of) his country homes.

Should he have been travelling between Downing Street and Chequers anyway?

food banks

I wouldn't worry, even Clavinova's frantic copy+pasting won't save the Tories now. Am sure she'll keep going to their last gasp, but you can't c+p your way through the real grief and anger people feel at them.

there is no denying that we are in an utter shitshow disaster right now and I am not advocating voting for tories. But to blindly vote labour

If you read the thread posters aren't all voting Labour.

Who said people are voting blindly? Nobody has said that.

The Rose Garden party, on the day of my friend's funeral (not Covid) and the day another friend of mine's father died of Covid.

Johnson hiding in a fridge.

I haven’t seen this- can you share the background to this please

My bank statement featuring my increased monthly mortgage payment, my higher energy bills, and the ever increasing amount we spent on shopping these days.

My husband who went through a Whipple's, cancer treatment then a stroke with no one there due to the rules they brought in while they lived it up, having parties and giving everyone else the middle finger. Support for his end of life was pretty much non existent due to lockdown, we faced it pretty much alone.

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Talk about nit pit

Nothing to do with nitpicking - the pp posted two downright lies about Boris Johnson for dramatic effect.

Should he have been travelling between Downing Street and Chequers anyway?

Now you're nitpicking - Keir Starmer was 'thrown out of a pub in Bath' 3 days later so I imagine travelling to Chequers was fine at the time;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56805144

I can nitpick if you like - Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner were having a beer and curry in Durham less than two weeks after the Queen was sitting alone at Prince Philip's funeral - probably why Starmer lied about how many people he was with;

https://order-order.com/2022/05/16/starmer-revises-count-up-from-6-to-15-attendees-at-beergate/

I'm so, so sorry.