Tory ‘Manifesto of Misery’ prompts huge reaction – AGAINST Theresa May
[Image ‘fixed’ by John Prescott.]
As the details of #ToryManifesto became clear, we felt it important to update our video. This, is the full horror of the #ManifestoOfMisery. pic.twitter.com/68kkarL8gk
— EL4C (@EL4JC) May 18, 2017
A major issue in the manifesto is the plan for a “Dementia Tax”, using the value of people’s houses to pay for their in-home care – to be paid after the cared-for person has died. Labour’s Angela Rayner clarified the situation on the BBC’s Question Time:
Brilliant explanation of the cruel #DementiaTax by Labour's Angela Rayner who worked in Social Care #BBCqt pic.twitter.com/5DFg4XrA41
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) May 18, 2017
Here’s how one caller to LBC reacted to it:
Listen: Tory voter, Elizabeth, said she had been left so irate by “Saint Theresa” she’d switched her postal vote to Labour. #torymanifesto pic.twitter.com/XB5VUzBw33
— EL4C (@EL4JC) May 18, 2017
And there’s this:
https://twitter.com/drmarielouise/status/865250073617235969
It's official now. State pension will be cut. Elderly care charges will rocket. #DeathTax Please RT pic.twitter.com/bl3KfCicog
— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) May 18, 2017
David Schneider has a satirical take on what to do:
As the #ToryManifesto pledges to abandon huge numbers of old people, here’s a handy list of fairer ways to pay for social care. pic.twitter.com/oWF9BocM7P
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) May 18, 2017
The manifesto promises less money for the National Health Service. Here’s one response:
NHS staff have been treated abysmally by this government – pls RT if you agree they deserve better pic.twitter.com/EMmCwgI6Rw
— NHS Million (@NHSMillion) May 18, 2017
Free school meals will disappear under a Tory government, leading to a new nickname for Mrs May:
Thatcher the milk-snatcher
May the dinner-binnerNever trust a Tory..@mccann_liz pic.twitter.com/xW4Xyh34UM
— John Edwards (@JohnEdwards33) May 18, 2017
When it comes to the #ToryManifesto it is simply a case of a different decade but the same cruelty pic.twitter.com/2V9do6aY5u
— Pileus Media (@thepileus) May 18, 2017
The Tories have promised to build 500,000 new houses, if elected. How well have they managed over the last few years? Here’s your answer:
Where are all of the starter homes the Tories promised to build? Yet more #ToryBrokenPromises. RT if you agree ↓ #torymanifesto pic.twitter.com/kACvCSAbs8
— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) May 18, 2017
Cartoonist Steve Bell had this to say about Mrs May’s manifesto – and its obvious undertones:
Steve Bell on the Tory manifesto – political cartoon gallery pic.twitter.com/71FcrEwBWb
— Political Cartoon (@Cartoon4sale) May 18, 2017
If you want an all-encompassing picture, try this:
The real front cover of the #ToryManifesto – they've added infants and dementia sufferers to the target list. 5 more years? #ToriesOut pic.twitter.com/aqzv6R6gel
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) May 18, 2017
Or this:
At least the title of the #ToryManifesto is honest. pic.twitter.com/sHKUn4jhkn
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) May 18, 2017
This last one is hard to watch, but I think it makes a very important point about the kind of country Theresa May talks about, and the kind of country that she and her Con cronies actually create:
Theresa May talks about going forward together, but under the Tories homelessness doubled, while #foodbanks struggle to cope #GE2017 pic.twitter.com/MxNwDREgRX
— Ben Claimant 💚 Join a Union (@BenClaimant) May 18, 2017
That is how people feel about Theresa May, her party, and their miserable manifesto.
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In the debate on ITV Nut job nuttall was saying that Jeremy Corbyn was in collusion with Theresa May! That can’t be right?!!!
The Problem for Corbyn and the Labour Party here in Scotland is that in a number of Councils including mine the Labour Councillors have joined with the Conservatives to run them..
Great post Mike
I’m afraid I can’t comment on the situation you describe in Scotland.
Here in Powys, Labour did everything in its power to stop the Tories taking control in a deal with certain ‘Independents’.
The situation in Scotland is that the unionist parties have only one thing on their manifestos. “Stop the SNP”. They are so intent on taking SNP seats that they will give the Tories extra seats in Westminster, nullifying gains made by Labour elsewhere, simply for their SNP vendetta. They call themselves unionists but are selfishly not thinking of the whole UK at all.
That is such a load of egotistical hogwash.
The Labour Party has only one thing on its mind and that is:
“STOP THE TORIES!”
The SNP doesn’t really figure in it.
I am not being egotistical at all. I never mentioned my personal opinion; only the facts. The Labour party in Scotland is not acting as the party is in the rest of the UK. . In some constituencies, where Labour know they haven’t a chance, they are asking their voters to vote Tory simply to keep the SNP out. And vice versa. You couldn’t make it up. If you really think the SNP doesn’t figure in the election in Scotland I don’t know what planet you’ve been living on. I know we’re just a tiny minority beside England, but every seat possibly handed to the Tories in this way is still a national setback.
Sorry, but I don’t believe the talk about asking people to vote for another party; it is an expulsion offence for any Labour member to advocate voting against Labour. This talk has been going around during the last few elections, always generated by supporters of the SNP – who have something to gain by suggesting it.
I didn’t say the SNP doesn’t figure in the Scottish election – just that it doesn’t figure in Labour’s strategy, which is: “We want to win as many seats as we can”.
And I apologise if I wasn’t clear, but I meant it is egotistical of the SNP to believe anything else of Labour.
I can’t speak for the other parties and it is wrong of you to lump them all together.
It is not SNP supporters that I am referring to. Our only Labour MP, Ian Murray, admittedly a Blairite and not fit for the title Labour, and Kezia Dugdale have both been caught suggesting this tactical voting.
In Kezza’s words, “in the vast majority of seats over Scotland, he only party that can beat the SNP is the Labour Party. In some areas, such as Borders and Highlands, the Tories might be better placed”. Since Borders is my own constituency, I find this particularly irksome. I do not want the Tory, that has tried and failed several times before, as my MP.
Kezza has already suspended several councillors for going into coalitions with the Tories at local level, for the rule you mentioned, but is sailing close to the wind herself.
I think I’d like to see links to reputable sources for what you’re saying these people have said.
Yes.Aberdeen was one of them
The truth is that some of these changes are necessary and May believes that she is popular enough now to win an election to do them. The triple-lock on pensions cannot be sustained forever; social care for people with valuable assets should not be paid for out of taxes from those with modest incomes. Both Labour and the Conservatives will have to borrow to fund their agendas and postpone deficit reduction for many years.
Which changes are necessary now, Jacky?
Do you really think taking away the principle of universal social care is worth the cost of expensive and pointless means tests?
Labour will borrow to invest in projects that will cut both the deficit and the debts; the Tories borrow to put you in debt.
Typical, to fry to find the worst in a Manifesto and avoid telling the full story. Only 12 weeks are free in Scotland in a care home. If you have spend your life paying a mortgage in order to leave your family with some security when you pass away the Scottish government will take it all. With the new Tory proposal your family will be left with maximum of £100,000. It is not mentioned that School Lunches will be replaced with free Breakfasts. We have a problem of buying too much from foreign countries and not enough of our home produced goods. Wonderful Scottish knitwear companies were lost because the public chose to buy goods from abroad. Buy home produced goods first in order to save jobs and lessen the measures having to be taken to balance the books.
£100,000 is not enough to buy a new house. A free breakfast is not the same as a free dinner. The Tories are taking more and giving less, every time.
That’s not finding the worst; that’s seeing it as it is.
If you want people to buy home-produced goods, tell the supermarkets and the wholesalers that are buying foreign goods at the moment in order to maximise their profits. Don’t try to blame the poor people who have to choose among what they’re offered.
Are you trying to say that breakfast will last all day? A child needs more than that, unless you propose to feed children vegetables at breakfast. As for the social care why have people been paying National insurance all their working lives, oh and even the unemployed pay NI it is paid before anyone gets their benefits!!!
Well the Tory manifesto has not been costed, it is more likely to be a fiscal disaster than the labour one which was independently costed
Who in their right mind, unless they are a millionaire, is going to vote for these Tory fraudsters?
Looking at that Question Time clip, I’m sure that was the very Unpriti Patel, who mooted that pensioners should be made to work for their (already paid for) State pensions, presumably until the day they die then the Dementia Tax will confiscate their homes and possessions. It’s all coming together nicely. I noticed Patel looking daggers at Angela Rayner.
I have seen several quotes now that the Cons lacklustre and malicious manifesto, coupled with Mother T’s total arrogance, it is so Kamikaze that she might actually be trying to lose this election thus handing the poison Brexit chalice over to JC and the Labour party. Way out thinking perhaps but something inside me feels having the real population vote positively on something, that the politicians and commercial interests thought would never happen, has left a massive problem of how to politically reverse engines on something that has been democratically agreed by the population. Cons have not got anything positive left to bribe votes only the nasty stuff that is always left to last to roll out. If they duck out of Brexit, by losing the election this time around, Labour will be left to swallow the Brexit poison pill which maybe the Cons have already worked out is politically flawed and fatal such they will never be elected again. Impossible? If we had proportional representation I think, on the current labour manifesto, Labour would be having the landslide but left holding the baby………..PS Very moving impactful last video .
I have been saying this all along but you said it better!
I hope EL4C hasn’t jinxed the election by choosing that Scottish Indy Ref 1 slogan “Hope not Fear”. It didn’t do us much good. I’m glad to hear that at least one Tory pensioner voter has switched. I suspect they have at last lost their guaranteed crumblies vote (I say that as a crumbly myself who has never voted Tory in my puff).