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

[verdantverdure]

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

This idiot and the fact that he was allowed so much influence for so long.

This

The dead refugee toddler on the beach.

There are too many things to list, I've never been a tory voter so I have a clear conscience about all the awful things that have happened to this country. But one of the things that sticks out is seeing my once bustling and lively hometown reduced to a shell of what it was. It's never been very prosperous but it had stuff going on and there was trade happening and people enjoyed the benefits. Now it's just empty outlets with the odd vape/phone shop and the odd chain coffee shop. Absolutely nothing going on and I feel sorry for the people who live there as it isn't their fault. And I feel sad that I had to move so far away from my family and roots because there is no work there. It's happened to countless towns around the country and it's absolutely shameful.

Why are you repeating a lie? The Downing Street parties were not even the same month.

Oh god. Yeah. Thank you for not posting the poor baby. Although it's burned into my brain already.

What's wrong with us as a society that that happening didn't make us sit down like grown ups and fix things?

Instead policy seems perfectly designed to drive people into the clutches of the people trafficking gangs.

Food bank queues at my local church which weren't a thing before the Tories got in.
The shite Gove policies which have sucked the joy out of my children's education and caused so many teachers to leave
The erosion of the nhs
The inhumane COVID rules while they partied
The vast inequality which has caused so many people to feel that reform is a good choice.
I don't expect a labour government to make a huge difference very quickly but I'm hoping for compassionate governance and a reduction in inequality. And really hoping they get two terms to turn the country around.

What should the Government have done about Covid? Ignored it and let everyone carry on as usual? How many more people would have died? What would a Labour Government have done differently?

Oh my god the LYING. The Tories must genuinely think we're all stupid

There's just so much of it.

Even if we get to 1000 posts we'll probably have missed a lot out.

I'm not naturally that interested in politics but these last few years they've been getting up to do much I've felt like I have to at least try to keep up with it. It's exhausting.

This is exactly my sentiments as well.

I also fear what the reaction will be from all those that vote Labour in Thursday when they become disillusioned and angry at the lack of change. This is not a criticism of Starmer or Labour but just a reflection on how shit the current situation is and the limited ability of Labour to change it.

From this disillusionment and anger I also fear a lurch to the hard right and hard left at the 2029 election, like we are currently seeing in France.

If Aldershot goes to Labour I wonder if that will be a factor?

I have a whole mental art gallery of images, but this for me is the one that sums up where women are in 2024 post-Tories.

This is what men think of women.

So Mr Starmer (JRM is also a sir, Savile, Heath and Cyril Smith were sirs, f*ck your titles back to the 14th century), what are you going to do about it?

Objectively: lockdown with a severely disabled child. No carers, no visitors, no school, no socialising, nothing. He became so depressed he stopped playing with toys. I was so exhausted and physically and mentally burnt out I had a breakdown and developed two physical health conditions that now make me too ill to care for him alone. My mental health will never recover. Meanwhile they were having parties.

Subjectively: child poverty, the division, rousing of hatred for disabled people by suggesting they are to blame for the state of play, brexit, bombing the children of Syria, Grenfell, Truss, the fact an unelected multi multi millionaire is trying to align himself with those who don't have Sky TV, the lies, all the people who died alone in hospital including my own dear family member who absolutely didn't deserve that, our crumbling NHS.

Such a depressing state of affairs.

Then we have Keir who can't define what a woman is.

@verdantverdure

"Oh my god the LYING. The Tories must genuinely think we're all stupid"

The point that Johnson was a liar was firmly established before the 2019 - he lied in previous jobs, lied about the number of his children, lied to Parliament, lied to the Queen.

So who's at fault here? Johnson for being Johnson or 13 million people voting for him at the 2019 election and then complaining afterwards that he was a liar?

verdantverdure · Today 10:40
notanothernana · Today 10:32
The dead refugee toddler on the beach.

Oh god. Yeah. Thank you for not posting the poor baby. Although it's burned into my brain already.
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What's wrong with us as a society that that happening didn't make us sit down like grown ups and fix things?
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Instead policy seems perfectly designed to drive people into the clutches of the people trafficking gangs

Rees-Mogg appears to have escaped from wherever he’s been locked in during campaigning:

”Jacob Rees-Mogg has said he wants to “build a wall in the English Channel” in a leaked recording, in which he heaped praise on Donald Trump and the hardline Republican response to immigration.1 hour ago”

He’s clearly insane. Or just a nasty bastard. Or both 🤷‍♀️

I think I read that there were very few official events due to the pandemic but somehow a record amount of wine and champagne needed to be replenished. (And the staff were buying their own in a clanking shopping trolley.)

You said you were a student at the time. So was I. Only I had younger siblings who got clobbered by fees my mum couldn’t afford. It wasn’t all hearts and flowers. And what I really remember is a leaflet from labour at that time prior to the 97 election saying “if elected, no student here will pay tuition fees”. as a teen, I learned all politicians were self serving liars.

you can be sure I want to say something negative about labour. They are promising all these improvements, but as usual the funding is coming from a fairy (non doms and private schools).

and as I said I have no love for the tories either and they have made a gargantuan load of fuck ups

I had forgotten.
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That really sorted the wheat from the chaff.

Nobody decent could support that.^

Did he really?!

Is he stupid?

Or does he think we are?

I always blame the conmen and never their marks.

Acknowledged that lockdown would cause massive harm, and so kept it very short.
Not used fear porn as the primary means of communication.
Obeyed their own roolz.
Admitted “we cannot control the virus, we can only lessen the harms”.
Been aware of the optics of turning the country into a police state: the absurd measures only encouraged “conspiracy theorists”, who are ordinary people concerned for the future of their children.
Not excluded millions of self-employed people from support.
Talked to the public like they are adults, not children who have to be frightened into submission.
Not imposed so many absurd rules in their desperation to be seen to do something. “No Easter eggs, they spread the virus”. “We might have to kill your cats.”

Alan Kurdi died on a beach in Turkey - the family were trying to reach Greece and ultimately Canada, where they had family;

Since the Kurdi family had reportedly been trying to reach Canada, his death and the wider refugee crisis became an issue in the 2015 Canadian federal election.

It must have been truly awful. I was at the end of my tether without any of my children being severely disabled. There just wasn't enough thought out into the human cost of these back of a fag packet policies.

As for Keir Stsrmer, I'll take him. He had me at "Not a Tory". We'll work on the rest.