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.

@mandymeans I’m so sorry

@mandymeans I am so sorry. That's so tough to bury a baby without the covid restrictions.

I have a lot of thoughts. Optimism that maybe things will be rebuilt. The 20 years before Labour were last in power 4 hospitals were built. The next 20 years 104 were built.
But apart from all the horrors of covid it's the sheer obsessive self interest bordering on criminality. Cameron and Greensill. Johnson and proroguing Parliament, plus all his holidays with Russians and putting them in the House of Lords in return for favours. Gove, Hancock and many more Tories lining their pockets with millions over PPE contracts, most of which were useless. At the same time as they prosecuted people who had carers allowance and earned a few pounds over their allowance when they'd been told it was ok. Not pursuing Michelle Mone and others to claw back the money we couldn't afford to lose on useless PPE. Not extending the number doctors in training. Dominic Cummings. The list is endless.

@mandymeans you made me cry. What a remarkable woman you are. I’m so so so so sorry you had to go through that. No one should ever have been treated like that.

So many powerful stories and images on this thread. So much heartbreak and grief, so many damaged families and unappreciated, hardworking public servants and so, so many selfish, selfish, greedy politicians.

How many crosses do I get?

@mandymeans thank you for sharing your story and that beautiful picture, words seem inadequate but I'm very sorry for your loss xxx

My darling Dad who died in a horrendously under staffed hospital ward recently. He spent his whole life opposing those Tory fuckers ✊🏽🌹

@mandymeans I am so very sorry, I wish I could find words that would be a comfort thank you for sharing such a beautiful photograph my heartfelt condolences.

Also my most sincere sympathy for others who lost loved ones or endured dreadful times💐

I hope labour lift the benefit cap, remove the 2 child cap and the bedroom tax as a starter.

And? Does it make any difference given that he was partying on several other days? And that this was the Prime Minister under whose supervision wine time Fridays at no. 10 were not only allowed but encouraged despite being unlawful?

Are you seriously suggesting that makes it OK?

I'm almost surprised that you haven't demanded the date of @mandymeans ' awful tragedy so that you can quibble whether it was exactly at the time that Johnson was partying.

People dying because ambulances aren't getting to them for hours, or in hospital corridors.

I don't in anyway think it was a utopia under Labour and I certainly don't think it will be one under the next labour government. But the levels of callousness under the tories is off the scale - lining their mates pockets with ppe money, claiming food banks are a good thing, blaming the residents of Grenfell for following instructions not to leave, having to be shamed by a footballer to feed children, partying whilst we were obeying lockdown rules. And on and on

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And? Does it make any difference given that he was partying on several other days?

Clearly it does make a difference, otherwise posters would not add that detail for dramatic effect. Keir Starmer's beer and curry was less than 2 weeks after the Queen was photographed sitting alone at Prince Philip's funeral - after which Starmer lied and tried to cover up how many people he was with. Guidance for constituency visits at the time recommended against meeting inside - not least because they were visiting different towns and cities every day.

The new picture in my mind when the Tories get voted out is Clav throwing her keyboard out of the window.

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When you read all these in one go it's really shocking and sad. How on earth did they get away with all this. And still have people voting for them on Thursday. I hope they get absolutely annihilated and don't ever get back in power.

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I'm almost surprised that you haven't demanded the date of mandymeans' awful tragedy

Why would I do that when I posted earlier in the thread;

'Some posters have real grief and anger certainly'

I'm going on a two week overseas holiday actually.

Bit floored by this. I am so, so sorry for your loss

Oh dear Lord. I am so so sorry for your loss

Despite Grenfell you still get people moaning about social housing tenants on here the minute we speak up about how we are treated. Happened on here again just last week.

Matt Hancock saying "dont blow it now" during a press conference when the public had already sacrificed so much.

Disabled and ill people being used as a tool to emotionally blackmail others into following lockdowns and restrictions when the Gov. and most people couldnt give a fuck about them under normal circumstances. I dont like users! I said it would be back to the default setting soon enough................and here we are Both Tory and Labour talking about people on benefits in a derogatory way and touting the idea of giving PIP claimants vouchers. Not vulnerable now eh!

I dont think its a coincidence that attitudes towards social housing tenants have got even worse since Grenfell Some people like the status quo very much as it is.