This British citizen summed up Theresa May’s Tory government in a Twitter thread – and it is horrifying
This should need very little comment.
Just remember that, when confronted in Parliament about the effect of her policies on the people of the nation she claimed to love, Theresa May laughed.
She laughed.
Surge in prison deaths & record levels of assaults and self-harm
Homeless people's deaths up 24% over five years
3,000 Britons dying each year because they can't heat their homes
Malnutrition deaths in hospitals in England and Wales at highest level for a decade
— Judy Hamilton (@secretspartacus) April 28, 2019
Universal credit leaves food bank with empty shelves: 'We just can't keep up. The conditions people are living in are scary. People are basically being left to rot"
Patients dying after having to wait because A & E too busy
Male suicide: Calls to helpline rise nearly 300%
— Judy Hamilton (@secretspartacus) April 28, 2019
@Alston_UNSR said Austerity could easily have spared the poor if the political will had existed to do so. Resources were available to the Treasury that could have transformed the situation of millions living in poverty, but the political choice was fund tax cuts for the wealthy
— Judy Hamilton (@secretspartacus) April 28, 2019
Windrush: at least 11 people wrongly deported from UK have died
Suicides in immigration detention centres kept secret by Home Office
More than 17,000 people died while waiting to hear whether their claim for disability benefit had been successful
— Judy Hamilton (@secretspartacus) April 28, 2019
University analysis has found that Government efforts to reduce the number of people claiming disability benefit have driven 590 people in England to suicide and have put 725,000 more on antidepressants.
— Judy Hamilton (@secretspartacus) April 29, 2019
40 people with a profound learning disability or autism have died in assessment and treatment units over the last 2.5 years, including nine aged under 35
Suicides amongst Firefighters & Police has doubled: blamed on cuts, redundancies, unpaid overtime & high levels of stress
— Judy Hamilton (@secretspartacus) April 30, 2019
The growing funding crisis in adult and children hospices is forcing 1 in 3 to cut end of life treatment.
Councils spent £750m less on homelessness-related activity than they did in 2008-9 due to Government cuts – homelessness has soared and 600 people died on the streets
— Judy Hamilton (@secretspartacus) May 8, 2019
Yes, Theresa May laughed.
But don’t think for a moment that any of her possible successors would have behaved otherwise.
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The nasty, evil Tories and their vindictive cruelty is summed up well.
It reads like the rap sheet of some barbaric sociopath on an international most wanted list, not the résumé on the tenure of a British Prime Minister!
Evil to the last . . .
At least June IS the end of May this time round hopefully . .
But scarey thing is who will take over??