Mealy-mouthed, lying politics: Tories congratulate themselves for a law that has nothing to do with them
Liar: Theresa May merrily passes off EU directives as her own laws.
How will the Conservative Government be able to pat itself on the back for implementing new laws that help people, after Brexit has happened and the organisation imposing those laws – The European Union – no longer has any power in the UK?
And will it matter, considering the fact that many of us have already cottoned on to what they have been doing?
The latest wheeze was the implementation of an EU directive to protect package holidaymakers, which the Tories announced as if it were their own:
We are introducing new rules to protect package holidaymakers and save customers tens of millions of pounds 🏝☀https://t.co/rvCxOHckat pic.twitter.com/BMrnQw8MkU
— CCHQ Press (@CCHQPress) July 1, 2018
The backlash was immediate:
THIS IS AN EU DIRECTIVE the Tories are taking credit for – which will no longer apply after the Tories take us out of the EU in March.
Q. How many people in the UK are so thick they are still falling for this trickery?
A. Current polling suggests around 40% would vote Tory https://t.co/IZdF5ijevV— Tom Pride (@ThomasPride) July 2, 2018
Repeat after me:
This is an EU directive
This is an EU directive
This is an EU directive
This is an EU directive
This is an EU directive
This is an EU directive https://t.co/59BbSAWQap— Mike Holden 💙 (@MikeHolden42) July 1, 2018
Tories ridiculed after shamelessly taking credit for new EU law to protect holidaymakers! Once again they’ve attempted to take the British public for fools after shamelessly bigging themselves up for implementing a law that they had nothing to do with! https://t.co/gB0IDEMeeY
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) July 2, 2018
Tories accused of the "height of shamelessness" for announcing EU laws as if they're their ownhttps://t.co/YFuJhWeO4E pic.twitter.com/AS9svDPIkC
— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) July 2, 2018
The Mirror article is handy as it carries a list of other EU directives that Tories have shamelessly passed off as their own.
But be warned: Although we are wise to this trick, many people may not be. As Tom Pride stated (above), around 40 per cent of the UK electorate still think voting Conservative is a good idea.
So please, if you happen to meet one of these deluded individuals, introduce them to this handy rule of thumb:
If a new law makes you worse-off, it was probably introduced by the Conservatives. If it actually helps you, it most likely came from somewhere else.
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But, wouldn’t this mean that the Tories were a bunch of lying, cheating,robbing b*****ds?
I find that amazing! In fact, the last time I heard something as bad as that was when one of our Governments introduced the 5 bob pension. Can’t quite remember which political party that was!
This is what Brexit is and always has been about; having total control over our lives and preventing the EU from having in say in the matter, especially in regard to the European Court of Human Rights! It would also be rather nice for those with offshore bank accounts!