30 things you should know about the Tory record
From Another Angry Voice: “Theresa May said that we should judge the Tory government on their record, so here’s a list of some of the things that any reasonably well informed citizen should know about the Tory record in government since 2010.”
- Election fraud
- Longest fall in value of wages since records began
- Spectacularly missed economic targets
- The austerity con
- NHS cuts
- NHS recruitment crisis
- Systematic abuse of disabled people
- Huge rise in child poverty
- The harshest cuts of all on poor families with children
- Most unaffordable homes ever
- Contempt for private sector tenants
- Public transport chaos
- Biggest education funding cuts in decades
- The school privatisation agenda
- Rip-off tuition fees
- Huge rise in Food bank dependency
- The Hinkley Point C scandal
- Social care crisis
- Defunding of local government
- Tax-dodging corporate outsourcing parasites
- Fire service cuts
- Police cuts
- Sweetheart tax deals
- The Snoopers’ Charter
- Dictators and despots
- Contempt for human rights
- Taxpayer subsidised malice
- Rising inequality
- U-turn after U-turn
- Threat of a “no deal” Brexit strop
Additions he didn’t have time to write fully about:
31. Legal aid cuts
32. Sack-at-will legislation
33. Numerous spectacular court defeats
34. Filibustering Tory MPs
35. £1,200 unfair dismissal tribunal fees
36. Secret Courts
37. the gagging law
38. Hundreds of Sure Start centres closed
39. Massive tax breaks for fracking companies
40. Mental health funding cuts
41. the rape clause
42. the Thames garden bridge fiasco
43. Highest childcare fees in Europe
44. In-work benefits cuts
45. Bigoted and homophobic Tory MPs
46. Many new PFI scams
47. Countless dodgy privatisations
48. Hidden air pollution reports
49. A blank cheque for the private companies that operate Trident
50. Refusal to help the UK steel industry
51. Tory Brexit liars like Boris Johnson and Michael Gove
52. Prisons chaos
53. Slashed adult education budgets
54. Economically illiterate cuts to flood defence spending
55. The anti-democratic Great Repeal Bill power grab
56. Cosying up to Rupert Murdoch
[Read full article with descriptions for each of the 30 items at Another Angry Voice…]