I think your DH is wrong continued...
The current extreme Conservatives also:
• Suppressed civil servants impact assessments on the <span class="italic">negative</span> impact of Brexit secret (publicly available economic assessments of new legislation are normal).
• Failed to come up with any <span class="italic">positive</span> economic case for Brexit at all.
• introduced the Health and Social Care Act 2012 which extended privatised health care approaches whilst putting the NHS on the brink by starving it of the funds and staff it needs - examples of people dying after long spells in hospital corridors etc.
• Allowed UK wages to drop 10% between 2007 and 2017 the second-biggest hit in Europe.
• Sent ministers like Liam Fox (who previously had a dodgy charity promoting US business) to seek trade deals that require US imposed lower food, hormone standards and lower pharma standards but with higher prices.
• Ran roughshod over Scotland in many respects , risking the break up of the U.K.
• Denied funding to schools leading to acute cuts including staff, extracurricular activities and school hours.
• Brought in a 2016 Trade Union Act that reduced workers' rights.
• Reduced funding for small household solar panels by 64%
• Introduced the bedroom tax to reduce income for the poorest in society have to find an extra £1,560 a year.
• Had no proper plans for NI before starting discussions with the EU.Wreaked havoc with shifting plans for NI border without supreme effort to restore Stormont - jeopardising the fragile peace there.
• Allowed an election campaign that puts out propaganda falsely masquerading as a fact checking website.
• By 2022 cut a combined £70 billion in corporation tax, capital gains tax etc yet claim a need to make savings affecting the poorer in society.
• Wasted millions on a ferry company without checking to see if it had ferries.
• Promoted politicians who knowingly breached campaign spending rules in 2016 and lied about this.
• Refused to guarantee triple-lock pensions.
• Imposed austerity that was unnecessarily acute and affected the poor disproportionately.
• Paid £1 billion bribe to the DUP in return for votes.
• Illegally closed parliament for political gain and lied about it.
• Rewarded a moral bankrupt who cheated on his wife numerous times ( even whilst she had cancer treatment) with the top job in the country.
• Pushed to scrap the U.K. human rights act guaranteeing basic freedoms mostly for individuals against the state.
• Created a situation where more than 40,000 primary children in classes over 36.
• Suppressed a report allegedly showing Russian funding of Tory party election coffers.Failed to publish investigation into proven Russian interference in UK elections.
• Pursued a hard Brexit- costing over tens of billions so far.
• Caused a crisis in elderly social care.
• Allowed the first prime minister ever to cohabit in Downing Street with some one the age of his children who he’s not even married to. And some one who has a child he does not even see.
• Made cruel changes to disability benefit.
• Closed 60 hospital units.
• Allowed child poverty to increase to unprecedented levels expected to rise by 50% by 2020:
• Raised university tuition fees from an initial maximum of £3,000 to University tuition fees were raised from a maximum of £3,000 to £11,697 by 2025
• Scraped bursaries for student nurses and midwives.
• Cut 42 billion from the NHS budget.
• Hired Australian political strategists who doctored footage of opposition MPs.
• Cut 21,000 police jobs.
• Cut 20,000 soldiers
• Cut 40% fire service funding.
Even I am bored of my own therapeutic list now.
Anything else Green, LibDem, Labour is better - the Labour manifesto is fab compared to the above list. If Corbyn is a concern well he will retire anyway.
Your DH is wrong.