This is what voting Conservative really means
We’re all really starting to get a grip on what five more years of Conservative government will mean – under Theresa May or any of her miserable ministers.
The following are taken at random from Friday’s social media posts, starting with one that should be too much for anyone to accept:
https://twitter.com/MxJackMonroe/status/865644676786737152
Tories set their priorities according to the amount they want not to spend, rather than how it will help the people of the United Kingdom. So they decide to end the winter fuel allowance for 10 million pensioners. How many will die as a result?
The Tory manifesto is totally uncosted and totally unfair pic.twitter.com/YOxhdIhaVH
— ThePeopleUnited (@Ord_LeftRham) May 19, 2017
Watch @johnmcdonnellMP express his anger at the cruelty of the attack on pensioners in Tory Manifesto pic.twitter.com/HGlBtzTumy #VoteLabour
— For The Many (@ForTheMany2020) May 19, 2017
Many Tory policies are completely uncosted – they’re clueless about how much they’ll be costing the country.
But they always have money for foreign wars, don’t they?
.@LeanneWood leader of @Plaid_Cymru questions why there are always "billions for foreign wars" and not for social care #ITVDebate pic.twitter.com/42hdk0EbcT
— ITV News (@itvnews) May 18, 2017
Members of the public are right on-side – here‘s an entire article asking who on Earth would want to vote Conservative (be warned – it’s sweary).
This nine-year-old is never likely to vote Tory, it seems:
Ouch. A nine year old rumbles Theresa May's game in 35 seconds flat. That will be no school dinner for him. pic.twitter.com/2cR24tUCIp
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) May 19, 2017
And it seems unlikely this lifelong Tory voter ever will again:
Speechless. Lifelong Tory voter today switches her vote to Labour after Theresa May announced her Dementia Tax. pic.twitter.com/QJsrvaVP9Y
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) May 18, 2017
There is a better way, of course. Just take a look at the contrast between Tory priorities and those of the Labour Party – the organisation that leading Tories and their cheerleaders in the mass media and local communities has tried to tell you is unfit to govern:
It isn’t even a choice, is it?
Vote Labour on June 8 – for all our sakes.
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I think we can add to the Tory list of priorities that accountability will gradually disappear. A rather disturbing article in the Guardian yesterday about the availability of information and access to the Tory campaign for journalists, rather like Trump’s behaviour a few months back.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/19/foreign-reporter-frozen-out-theresa-may-behaving-trump?CMP=share_btn_fb
Well the US own the UK and we always have to do as they do or say, we even have to eat there poisoned GM food,and kill the environment with there weedkiller Roundup, its called a special relationship.
The worrying thing is Mike that there seem to be an awful lot of people who would be so very badly affected by these Conservative desires for domination who are not raising their heads; these are the very people the Tories are relying on to give them victory over all the hard work people like you and so many do in the interests of all decent folk.
I think and hope that there are enough of us who actually do the fighting for justice and who value a leader like Jeremy Corbyn to make certain we do manage to rid ourselves of the Tories.
If the Tories do manage to deceive enough in order to get back in to power that is exactly what it will really mean; power and domination and the destruction of a decent life for anyone who not already one of their billionaire mates.
To finish on a positive note I am happy to see that Labour is gaining its rightful respect from people who have been awakened by May’s dreadful manifesto daily but we must not be complacent!
Aye, Tony Blair gave us the notion of being “in power.” What people and our politicians need to realise is that governance is just that; governance. The government is there to govern, NOT to rule!