Austerity, Brexit, Covid Lockdown Parties, PPE Scandal, Raw Sewage in UK Waterways & Coastal Areas, Economic Crash, Record Inflation, Record Interest Rates, Cost of Living Crisis, Pensions Decimated, Mortgage Rises, NHS in Crisis, Schools Crumbling, Housing Crisis...
Of course, one of the the things we all need to be considering is how to vote tactically... so here for your consideration is one guide to how to vote tactically in your constituency.
Just type in you postcode for advice (based on polling) on how you might vote tactically to get the Tories out (or if you have other priorities, how to maximise the impact of your vote under the current FPTP system)
@ChrisMayLA6 The trouble with this is the risk of it being read as an endorsement of the challenger party -- which they will most certainly try to paint it as being. In my case, the obvious challenger is the #SNP, a party rapidly drifting to the right with no apparent strategic vision.
"May 24 (Reuters) - Britain's Communities Minister #MichaelGove said on Friday he will step down as a member of parliament ahead of the July 4 general election."
Austerity, Brexit, Covid Lockdown Parties, PPE Scandal, Raw Sewage in UK Waterways & Coastal Areas, Economic Crash, Record Inflation, Record Interest Rates, Cost of Living Crisis, Pensions Decimated, Mortgage Rises, NHS in Crisis, Schools Crumbling, Housing Crisis, Scandals, Cover ups.
Unless you've got a crystal ball, how do you know this will happen?
After 14 years of #Tory failure, sleaze & economic mismanagement that brought us #Brexit a #CostOfLivingCrisis & record #Inflation, are you seriously saying a new #Labour government can reverse this damage on day one, but won't because #Starmer is no different to the #Tories? Really?
The best way to look at #GE2024 is; we're you better off in 2010 under #Labour, or are you better off in the Tory's 2024?
Judges act to thwart #Tory attempts to have a defacto ban on protest in the UK…
‘The High Court has ruled that the Government acted unlawfully in creating legislation which gave the police ‘almost unlimited’ powers to restrict protests.
Following a landmark legal challenge from human rights organisation Liberty, the Court has ordered the law to be quashed.’
I've been listening to the second half of The Rest Is Politics interview with #Kwarteng, and my take away is what TRIVIAL people everyone involved is. Kwarteng is supposed to be one of the intellects of the #Tory party, but they can none of them – not Kwarteng, not Campbell, not even Stewart – string two concepts together.
Leading: 74. Kwasi Kwarteng: Liz Truss, becoming Chancellor, and Britain on the brink (Part 2)
“the British state – medical professionals, civil servants, politicians – all of whom felt their job was to protect their own reputation rather than to serve and look after the public who they were there to serve”
•These are mostly #tory governments
•The State just lost its duty of care to greed and corruption (Covid for ex. made a lot of tories very rich and gave them parties to enjoy) It is what they are and will ever be: very rich guys who milk the State to enrich themselves&f*ck the people‼️
'In his first newspaper interview since leaving the cabinet, the former chancellor says the ex-PM was the ‘most consequential leader since Thatcher’ — and reveals his own biggest mistake in the tax scandal that led to his sacking’
They just don't get it do they? Worth a read to get confirmation of the bat shit stupidity, arrogance and greed that drive them.
@Wen This is a quite remarkable read. Even by the standards of the average head-up-own-arse, self-centred, greedy #Tory this is exceptional.
Here are a couple of phone numbers and an email address of his new employer, just in case you'd like to let them know what you think of their new appointment:
"The [European] Convention [on Human Rights] was drafted [...] in the aftermath of the horror of the Second World War, but over 70 years ago. And it's now clearly been overtaken by events"
— Conservative and Unionist Party MP for Rayleigh and Wickford, House of Commons, 2024-05-14
Your Member of Parliament yesterday represented you by stating that the #ECHR, guaranteeing freedom from slavery and torture, the rights to life and fair trials, so horrifically violated during WW2 and fought for by many, are now out of date and should be renegotiated by the United Kingdom in favour of more limited #HumanRights.
Is this your view?
Are you willing to espouse this view aloud in, say, Wickford Memorial Park?
'For years this has been described by water companies and politicians as a problem of “Victorian” sewers.' 'In fact, modern sewers are the problem. Very little of the British sewer system – less than 1 per cent, in some areas – is Victorian, and it is not the Victorian sections that are responsible for the most spills.'
'The £78bn that has been distributed to shareholders since privatisation has been extracted entirely from the public. The £96bn the industry says is needed to fix the system by 2030 will also come from the public.'
#TLDRNews is often shallow, and one drinking game that can be played is waiting to see how far into the video we get until there is an utterly boneheaded factual, proofreading, or captioning error.
But this video, in spite of its faults, does bring home the sheer scale of the resignations, withdrawals of the whip, suspensions, and defections that have happened to the Conservative and Unionist Party in this Parliament.
@RichardJMurphy A minority of the electorate voted for 14 years of #Tory chaos and indeed for Cameron's disastrous #Brexit gamble. Rightwing policy is destroying the disUK, which desperately needs ethical, climate-friendly politics of cooperation, compassion and reason.
The only person who is in a position to change this pattern is #Starmer by introducing a form of #ProportionalRepresentation, so that the left (as opposed to #Labour) has a voice.
The Inflated ego of Norfolk #Tory County Council leader Kay "Will of the People" Mason Brillig (and the Slithey Goves) reckons she's Foreign Secretary now, signing meaningless bits of paper, but it's clear which local airhead put such grandiose notions into her head.
They blather about hoping to boost business, having burned our Single Market links to existing twin towns Rouen (that's France, Kay) & Koblenz (Germany).
It's at complete odds with the DNA of the party. Weird. I mean basically they really are now just #Tory, Mark II.
I am bitter at folks who self-indulged in the anti-Corbyn rhetoric. He was almost none of the serious things he was accused of - and the worst accusations to really land are he's not a great speaker, he's a technocrat, and wasn't clear about his Brexit position (it was spectacularly misrepresented). That's looking like costly self indulgence right now.