Some of the achievements of the Tory regime
 

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!

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DvTimes impersonating Paul Markham

It's time the British started to pay more in tax because quite clearly the present tax income isn't enough to fund all the demands.

Not just tax the rich, that won't raise enough money even though Corbyn says it will. Tax everyone more so they can have what they desire.

boris johnson supposedly spent £46 million on a bridge before a brick was even laid and we are supposed to accept this as fact, at most with surveyors, designers costs the most would be £200,000 at the very highest, and no one is challenging it, i would ask for an itemized bill to show where the money went,

here is maybe where some of the money went, the last cameron cabinet walked away with millions in bonuses, every thieving one of them,

read above £400,000, on a helmet what is it made of gold!!! even if it was it would not cost that much

They could be syphoning off billions and I would still vote for them to keep out that racist, feeble-minded cunt-bitch Dianne Abbott out of a place in the cabinet.

caught out again today with lies you can not make this shit up

There are two gaping holes in Labour's spending plans. Where is the money coming from for the new houses and re-nationalisation? Both are uncosted and both will cost over £100 billion.

This is the type of budgeting that has put the UK into £1.56 trillion of debt. So either babeterminal pays more in taxes or the government cuts spending to the level of income. Because borrowing more to give money away every week is a sure route to bankruptcy.

https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...-boris-johnson

Corbyn plans on building 1million homes that will never pay for themselves. Unless after they're built the government sells them off. That's going to cost a lot more than £38 million closer to £200 billion.

lord rickets just said on sky news "if there was any reason to have access to everyone's data this is it" [manchester]

today the army is deployed in london all armed with more powers to act than ever before

p.s this is my only response to paul ever, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT

Then explain with more than an empty phrase. Where is the money to build all those houses, the money to re-nationalise all the industries Corbyn promised?

Gordon Brown borrowed billions to set up new public sector jobs and organisations that are still costing the UK billions a day. That government also opened the doors to millions of low paid workers who are now relying on the government for support or putting another British worker into the position of relying on the government. Corbyn wants to keep migrants coming into the UK. How many will need government support to live or put a Brit on government handouts?

Yes the UK needs 1 million more houses, because of that stupid migration policy. If migration was controlled wages would be higher, rents lower and the wealthy less wealthy.

The problem with socialists is they run out of other people's money to spend.

There are SAS and special forces on the streets of London in plain clothes, some have been flown back from overseas. If you know of a better way to collection intelligence on terrorists other than collecting people's online data. Be sure to tell the security services so more events like the bombing in Manchester can be avoided.

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Still a ghastly country with awful weather and worse food... best thing I ever did in my life was leave the UK.

Brits are leaving the country, Pakis moving in.

i like gaping holes... :2 cents:

The food's great. There are some great Indian, Chinese, Thai, Italian, Greek, French, Japanese restaurants in the UK. :1orglaugh

i posted the army having to be deployed because the police do not have the man power

i just heard on lbc radio that since the tories being in, 1300 armed police cut, thats just the armed section, the listed was endless all tory cuts, now they had told us they borrowed more than all previous labour governments put together to pay for all the services, WHERE HAS THE BLOODY MONEY GONE, not on services

here is a thought about my great city, i can travel the world and never leave london

I've been hearing this for 35 years, "the food is so much better now" and with the exception of finding good Thai cuisine there on my last visit, the food generally still sucks. And most Brits are terrible cooks... my best friend's wife thought the way to cook zucchini (courgettes) was to cut it into 1/2 inch slices and BOIL IT FOR 30 MINUTES. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Are you suggesting they borrow more to improve the services or tax more to improve the services?

Forget about one small sector of society paying the extra costs. Labour lie through their teeth when they say only the rich will pay more. They also lie when the invent numbers of billions that are not being paid in corporation taxes. This is the legal practice of being based in one country and paying the corporation taxes another country.

The flaw in that approach is the knock-on effect of businesses and people leaving the UK taking with them jobs and profits. The end result is very little gained in tax revenue. It requires all people to pay more in taxes to fund the services demanded. And what is wrong with the people demanding more paying for what they demand?

Here's the real problem and neither Left or Right will address it.

The population is growing faster than the economy can pay for it. Working class jobs and salaries have been disappearing for decades, now middle-class jobs and salaries are starting to decline. When a company moves production to the Far East, it takes with it the jobs of those on over £60k as well.

And for decades the UK has been on a mission to increase the population by not controlling birth rates and by allowing millions of low-skilled workers in. This has led to a huge growth in those who don't contribute and those who rely on the State for subsidies. Look at the statistics or people who now rely on some form of benefits and earn less than £25k. With all the state amenities handed out to a family, £25k is the average where one really contributes.

Both sides con you that the rich can somehow make enough money and stay in the UK to pay for the growing number of poor. Labour being the worse of the two.

you still haven't told us where the money to build the 100,000 houses and re-nationalise industries is coming from. Because Labour dismiss is it by saying the money is negated because the country will now own the assets. which is like saying you don't have to pay the buyer for your car because you now own it.

Your best friends wife is a terrible cook. Anyone who boils vegetables for 30 minutes is an idiot.