#BecauseOfTories your country is a chaotic distopia. See for yourself
#BecauseOfTories
On the last day of 2017, two new terms entered This Writer’s lexicon. The first was the hashtag #BecauseOfTories, which Conservatives introduced into Twitter to boost their failed government’s public image. The second is the term “optics”, which appears to mean “the way in which an event or course of action (predominantly political) is perceived by the public”.
Clearly the first is an attempt to affect the way the public is affected by the second – and of course it has backfired massively because nobody is going to be fooled by a silly line of blind loyalty when the evidence of Tory disasters is all around us.
For example:
This is horrendous: Tories have now cut early years funding by 44%. Since 2010, one in three children’s centres have shut. https://t.co/hVFvGc3KVF
— Frances Ryan (@DrFrancesRyan) December 11, 2017
#BecauseOfTories
500 Wealthiest people $1Trillion richer.. absolutely obscene.. $1Trillion richer?!? In a year!! You What?!? Where’d they get that money from? You. They pay little or no tax..control necessities of life, steal your wages, create Foodbanks and homelessness #ToryVultureCapitalists pic.twitter.com/0NzfXFcccz
— ARTIST TAXI DRIVER (@chunkymark) December 28, 2017
#BecauseOfTories
https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/944489155144364033
#BecauseOfTories
Why oh why is there no #Inquest into the ongoing deaths and suicides as consequences of #DWP policy enactment?
It is criminal manslaughter via neglect, incompetence, and the punitive rather than supportive nature of policies.
— Conservatives Out (@ConservativesXX) December 27, 2017
#BecauseOfTories
FOIs by Labour have revealed that already overburdened councils are being forced to use their own resources to cushion the blow of switching to universal credit.https://t.co/OYinndeIF7
— Labour Press (@labourpress) December 29, 2017
#BecauseOfTories
Suicide attempts by disability benefit claimants have doubled since controversial assessments introduced, latest findings described as "damning indictment” of the controversial testing process and “greatest jump in suicide rates in any population”. https://t.co/jzqL4bUqQy
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) December 29, 2017
#BecauseOfTories
Bedroom taxed tenants fined £30k for following Tory advice! https://t.co/mqdrKqVyKO via @SpeyeJoe #Tenants can't win Do as advised and PAY the Price?! MRT #SocialHousing
— Jayne L (@JayneLinney) December 29, 2017
#BecauseOfTories
Not much New Year cheer here for British Workers; earnings expected to decrease by 0.7% next year.https://t.co/u7lloJGu3w
— Liz McInnes 🌹🇺🇦💙 (@LizMcInnes60) December 29, 2017
#BecauseOfTories
https://twitter.com/ToryFibs/status/946815549111185409
#BecauseOfTories
If you care about the #NHS read this and share it: https://t.co/yRHA0skjdU
— Mary O'Hara (@maryohara1) December 29, 2017
This comes after Branson sued us because he lost a previous contract. #BecauseOfTories
Number of homeless people in Bath aged 18-24 on the rise https://t.co/WntNOrBag6
— a4e highpark1 (@a4ehighpark1) December 29, 2017
#BecauseOfTories
Council apologises as Grenfell Tower households miss out on extra cash https://t.co/l3Yr6PNCau
— Mary O'Hara (@maryohara1) December 29, 2017
#BecauseOfTories
Half of children’s intensive care units dangerously full as Labour warns of New Year slump in care – @JonAshworth https://t.co/YqGo4E8zFl
— Labour Press (@labourpress) December 29, 2017
#BecauseOfTories
#ToryMess2017 before the election this doctor warned about the Tory demolition of your hospital & care services pic.twitter.com/IDCP2rusxV
— ThePeopleUnited (@Ord_LeftRham) December 29, 2017
If the June election was about life and death, as suggested by Dr Lauren Gavaghan in the clip above, then the UK chose death #BecauseOfTories
https://twitter.com/UKDemockery/status/947089061432487936
#BecauseOfTories
https://twitter.com/UKDemockery/status/947089507215589376
#BecauseOfTories
The UK today:#NewYearsHonours pic.twitter.com/0MGAqbc8xI
— Tom Pride (@ThomasPride) December 30, 2017
#BecauseOfTories
Action on Homelessness: 'Homeless left in the streets to die in the cold in Folkestone' https://t.co/RRko6wgLdd
— Samuel Miller (@Hephaestus7) December 30, 2017
#BecauseOfTories
Violent crime soaring – frontline police officers dropping.
All thanks to … #teamtory! pic.twitter.com/EPWh89wD6V— Tom Pride (@ThomasPride) December 30, 2017
#BecauseOfTories
#TeamTory these are a few of your achievements! Disgrace pic.twitter.com/mCh2HqpgFo
— ThePeopleUnited (@Ord_LeftRham) December 30, 2017
#BecauseOfTories
https://twitter.com/xugla/status/947259298886881280
Yes, economic mismanagement has more than doubled the national debt in a matter of just a few years, #BecauseOfTories
The Tories own figures show the sanctions rate for Universal Credit is now 20 times higher than for other forms of social security. With the roll-out gathering pace in 2018 it doesn't take a genius to work out that a huge disaster is on the way.
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) December 31, 2017
#BecauseOfTories
https://twitter.com/DancingTheMind/status/947428225776586752
#BecauseOfTories
Wow. #TeamTory pic.twitter.com/PyJTDz4uja
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) December 31, 2017
People think it is okay for a government to deliberately engineer the deaths of more than 100,000 people – enough to qualify as genocide – #BecauseOfTories
We have now run out of corridor space in A&E @UHNM_NHS, County A&E has just closed to ambulances, we r now holding 🚑 we r trying our best pic.twitter.com/jRqUa845zY
— Dr Richard Fawcett (@docfawcett) December 30, 2017
#BecauseOfTories
I like Tom Pride’s response to this:
Dear Conservative voters,
We're now in a position in our country, where if someone has an accident, heart attack or needs emergency medical assistance, A&E departments are closed to ambulances because they are understaffed and underfunded.
Please stop voting for this.
Regards
Tom https://t.co/o2MOfQmair— Tom Pride (@ThomasPride) December 31, 2017
Back to the plot:
#BecauseOfTories hunger is used as a weapon against the poorest and most vulnerable in society. And they're proud of their record… pic.twitter.com/vRczbeqT2E
— The Prole Star (@TheProleStar) December 31, 2017
#BecauseOfTories
And it's all thanks to … #teamtory! pic.twitter.com/wwtG3NSB1V
— Tom Pride (@ThomasPride) December 30, 2017
#BecauseOfTories
All of the above turned up on my Twitter feed, only over the last few days.
To see more, go to Twitter yourself and look up #BecauseOfTories.
And send this article and a link to the Twitter hashtag to someone who needs to learn the facts. You know who they are.
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Yes but the few have made it big and have had a hard time filling it all in there off shore accounts
yes well all there policy are going to come to them, I have two really lovely cases as well as being one of the members of Public that reported A Barham for fitness to practice issues and anyone that knows me, I don’t take on cases that are irrelevant, so today I am giving them all hint, look at 1979 top of the pops and the carwash, there gonna need it, because that what some of there nurses are gonna be doing and if that is my new year resolution oh sure, we just need ignorant and stupid smith there
I thought an optic was what bars use to measure my whiskey
So did I.