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.

The idiocy of holding the brexit referendum, ending up in us bumbling out of the single market and going into decline for no benefit whatsoever

Most MNers were angry that the covid restrictions were too little, too late. They thought Johnson was so uncaring he just wanted all the old people to die, despite him having covid and also losing his own mother during lockdown. This was borne out by polling which showed the general population also wanted firmer restrictions, not looser ones.

I hate Boris Johnson and can't wait for the Tories to be gone but covid was horrific all over the world, and no country 'got it right'.

Another one: Dominic Cummings' sanctimonious press conference in the garden at Number 10 about his trip to Barnard Castle.

The point I was making, which seems to have escaped you again, is that all governments are disappointing in the end. I miss the optimism of believing otherwise, but when you have been through the cycle a few times you stop believing promises will be kept.

@verdantverdure

"I always blame the conmen and never their marks."

Fair point but if you know fully well before hand that the conman is a conman but still engage with him resulting in getting conned, then sorry but you also have to bear some responsibility for being conned.

Mine will be the pictures of the party they were having at Downing Street on the same day my elderly and disabled father was taken to hospital, terrified and in the grip of psychosis, in an ambulance and my mum, who has never spent more than two nights apart from him in well over 50 years, wasn't able to go with him and none of us were allowed to visit him either in hospital or the care home he was eventually discharged to. I also couldn't go and see my mum to support her.

There are phone calls I had with my dad during that period that will honestly haunt me to the end of my days. I also think my mum has PTSD. She has never been quite the same since that incident.

I wasn't angry about the lockdown, because I did believe it was necessary (and I still do). But when the news of those parties broke, and I found out that one of them was happening on that date, I was so angry that I got severe palpitations.

I will think,of my brother 48 hours before he died of cancer, being told there was no hospital bed for him. All the hospital could offer him was a chair in the waiting room which he would be in overnight. With no promise of a bed the next day. He went home and died in agony with no pain relief. What this Government have done to our NHS is unforgivable.

That's a powerful image.

damn, this made me shudder.

Universal Credit, which has made countless peoples lives harder and traps people in poverty. On purpose.

Can you (or anyone) explain this? I'm not doubting it, just want to understand.

Boris sliding down a zip wire in Union Jack underpants. That should have been a signal. The sad fucking thing was everyone loved him for it and thought he would make a fantastic prime minister.

I realised then I was living in a country of idiots.

My grandparents empty funeral during Covid.
I had every maternity appointment alone while they partied.
Missing out on a loved ones final weeks.
The lack of resource and staffing during my labour / post partum period.
Sarah Everard.
Food bank usage.
Children losing out on free school meals and a FOOTBALLER being the one to push against malnourished children.
Myself and 600,000 women waiting for treatment or referrals for female healthcare.
PPE Scandal.
"350m for the NHS"

Those citing lockdown, I’m a lifelong Labour voter BUT I think lockdown would have actually been harsher under labour.
True, Boris and co were corrupt and inept, but Boris is essentially a libertarian whereas Labour tend toward the authoritarian.
The hypocrisy was unforgivable though.

Very moving thread. So many reasons to vote the Tories out (I've already done my part with a postal proxy vote), for me personally Brexit has affected me the most as I live in the EU and Brexit has caused so many problems.

Labour tend toward the authoritarian

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Of our local candidates the Tory one is the best (young, advocating for change at the national level and great at local level.) BUT I don't know if I can bear to vote Tory. So I'm really torn between a tactical vote for a (not v good) Lib Dem candidate or voting for the Tory rep. And i don't know what to do! I'm not in a swing seat

This.

It's so fucking horrendous. Fuck them and their disgusting behaviour.

I'm rocking in horror just reading that. What he and all of you must've gone through.

This is a really powerful thread - thanks OP.

You're not wrong.

I don't understand it

Some people's relationship with the truth is weird.

Some of the stuff that gets posted on here is known to be I tried, but people still post it I don't get it.

Some folk must like being lied to.

Or they prefer lies they like to a truth they don't.

It must make them very easy to manipulate.

The teen died in King's College Hospital on 30 March 2020 - the first Downing Street gathering was 15 May 2020.

@Clavinova what is your point? You’re splitting hairs but can you really -hand on heart - say that you believe the Tories have acted with integrity? Do you really find something to admire in them?

BiggerBoat
what is your point? You’re splitting hairs

I'm not splitting hairs - posters keep repeating the same lie;
This was on the same day that Boris Johnson had a fucking party

• not even close to the same day.

You haven’t answered the question. Do you think the Tories have acted with integrity? Do you admire what they have done?

BiggerBoat1
Do you think the Tories have acted with integrity?

In general terms, no more or less than the Labour Party - take your pick.