Originally Posted by babeterminal

Some of the achievements of the Tory regime over the last 6 years • Bedroom Tax • Workfare (slavery) • Foodbanks • VAT increase (from 15% to 20%) • Zero Hours Contracts • Pension retirement age rises • Dead end apprenticeships paying less than the minimum wage • Fracking • More than doubling the countries debt, £760 Billion in 2010, over £1.7 Trillion in 2017, more borrowed and more new debt accumulated by the Conservatives in 5 years than all previous Labour governments combined the Conservative (£122 Billion more to be borrowed apparently due to Brexit) • Government borrowing targets repeatedly missed • Credit rating downgraded (AAA credit rating gone) • Cuts to frontline services • NHS sell off, secret privatisation and underfunding (causing the NHS deficit to increase by 600% from 2010-2015 £822 Million, then to £2.2 Billion since last year) • Health and Social Care Act (removed the legal responsibility for the government to provide free health care and broke the link between National Insurance payments from wages to the NHS, resulting in £30 Billion being withheld from an already underfunded NHS). • Waiting times in A and E increased • Longer waits to see a GP • Longer waits for operations • Doctors and Midwives go on strike for the first time in the history of the NHS • Many hospitals placed in special measures • NHS humanitarian crisis declared • Child poverty risen • Tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires • Energy price rises • Heat or eat • Winter fuel allowance cuts • 2.38 million households in fuel poverty • Over 500,000 people now cannot afford to pay for their energy and have to have pre pay meters 15,000 deaths from fuel poverty every year • Failure to curb banking excesses • Banking reviews prevented, failure to bring in sufficient legislation to prevent another financial crisis, caused by the banks (derivatives susceptibility) • Banks given government subsidies worth £100 Billion per year • Bankers bonuses have grown to over £40.5 Billion every year • Quantitative Easing, socialism for the bankers and the wealthiest 1% • Cash for peerages • Corporate sponsorship • Corporate tax evasion and avoidance £70 Billion + every year (only 300 investigators allocated to tax avoidance and evasion, but 3,250 investigators allocated to benefits fraud totalling £1.2 Billion per year) • CEOS receive 380 times more money than an average employee • The Conservatives took over £50m from tax evading hedge funds, hedge funds have received tax breaks worth over £145 million in return • Selling of Royal Mail and other national assets (all undersold) • Privatisations between 1997-2010 £2.8 Billion, sell offs of Public assets from 2010-2016 are set to reach £60 Billion, giving up the reliable revenue they bring in for the public, for a once off amount of money. A loss to the tax payer but a gain to the wealthiest 1% that the Conservative government conserve for represent and are part of. • Massive rail fare increases (despite vast tax payer subsidies of £1.2 Billion per year) • Train and Tube strikes • Teachers strikes • Electoral fraud (overspending in up to 56 marginal constituencies in the 2015 elections) • Erosion of workers rights • Endless expenses scandals • The disabled have suffered up to 19 times more than anyone from austerity (no austerity for the wealthiest) • UN investigation into Human Rights abuses of the disabled, poor and vulnerable of Great Britain • Lowering corporation tax on numerous occasions and despite high corporate tax evasion (lowered corporation tax is to cause a loss to the public treasury of £63.8 Billion by 2022) • Dodgy DWP assessments • Benefit cuts • Cuts to disability living allowance and Employment Support Allowance disability benefits • Wasting money on implementing welfare reform and Universal Credit (the cost of implanting 'universal credit' £500 Million) • Cuts to Universal Credit • Maximus brought in for Work Capability assessments costing £495 Million per year • Fewer sure start children’s centres • Cost of Living crisis • Inequality rising • Exploitative loan companies • Higher private rents • Housing shortages • Life tenancies ended for council housing for the first occasion ever • Pay freezes • Stagnating wages (unless you are very wealthy!) • 19 million people are earning less than the living wage • Scrapping Education Maintenance Allowance, trebling of University tuition fees to up to £9,000 per year and replacing grants for University tuition fees with more loans (removed path to college and University for many from underprivileged backgrounds) • Prostitution more than doubled as students have to resort to this to pay their tuition fees or for those that are not students, just to afford to live • Highest rates of borrowing since WW2 • Household debt is over £1.4 Trillion • Increase in mental illness • Increase in Suicide • Inhumane benefit sanctions • Mainstream media deceptions, lies, shut outs, propaganda and bias • Lies about not planning to cut tax credits further perpetual lies • 2,650 people have died within six weeks of being deemed ‘fit for work’ and therefore having their disability welfare stopped between 2011 and 2014, some have been deemed ‘fit for work’ and had their benefits stopped that have had cancer and even terminal cancer • The total amount of Employment Support Allowance, Incapacity Benefits or SDA benefit claimants that have died between December 2011 and February 2014 is 81,140. During this time 50,580 claimants of Employment Support Allowance died, 7,200 of these were put into the work related activity group • Benefit claimants with anxiety and depression that are suicidal are asked why they haven’t killed themselves • The Conservative government has been taken to court in Great Britain on 3 occasions last year alone and found to be governing unlawfully. • Highest levels of poverty for decades • 12 million people living in poverty, 7 million of them work (the working poor catchment group created by the Conservatives), 3 million of them are children, 2 million of them unemployed, 1 million of them are pensioners • Out of 30 OECD countries, Great Britain is the fourth most unequal and the worst in Europe • Failed trickle down economics resumed, the last time the wealthiest had as large a share of income and wealth was 1940 • The 5 wealthiest families own more wealth than the poorest 12 million • Rise in homelessness (increased by 55% in 5 years) • Slow economic growth • Less manufacturing and an economy that is 80% based on services (including banking and financial services) • Highest ever immigration, 624,000 in 2014 (austerity to border controls) • Cancelled school regeneration projects • Fewer Doctors • Fewer Nurses • Fewer Teachers • Fewer Police officers • Fewer emergency workers (ambulance and fire brigade) • Cuts to armed forces and pensions (smallest armed forces since 1750 due to Tory cuts) • Floods due to austerity to the flood defences • Justice and Security Bill (secret courts) • Gagging orders • The Snoopers Charter, making Great Britain the least private and most intrusive, authoritarian surveillance country in the world (cost £247 Million to implement) a further £1.9 Billion per year given to GCHQ to spy on everyone • Restricting the free press and freedom of speech (plans to jail journalists that publish anything leaked) • Council tax increases (higher increases in constituencies that are not Conservative) • Foreign aid increased • Use of tax payers money for costly and endless wars (£1.5 Billion for the Libya war and set to be similar for Syria), secretive wars elsewhere • Use of tax payers money to give to ISIS terrorists 'moderate' Salifist head choppers, over £67 Million to 'moderate' opposition (ISIS), to try to illegally overthrow President Assad, £32 million given to the White Helmets (al-Qaeda) • Spending £12 Billion on inefficient F-35 fighter jets (£400,000 for a single helmet) • Bombs sold to Saudi Arabia, that could amount to war crimes • Reluctance to do anything about rampant off shore tax evasion by the mega wealthy and the corporate criminality of those such as 'Sir' Phillip Green that the Tories conserve for (only paid half of the money he took from the pension fund, tax payers have to cover the remaining amount). AND…..overseeing a 10% pay rise for MPs It is a good job for the Tories that there are people keeping track of all their achievements, keep voting Tory and who knows what else they can achieve!