Has any political leader ever gone into an election campaign with such a nasty, divisive and unpopular set of policies as Theresa May?
Just think about what she's saying she will do:
- Theresa May and the Tories are planning to asset strip elderly people for suffering age-related diseases. They try to claim it's necessary to extract the value of pensioners' houses in order to fund social care because there isn't enough cash, but somehow there is enough cash for them to hand out a mind-boggling £70 billion in tax breaks for their corporate mates.
- Theresa May and the Tories are planning to snatch free school meals from infant school children. Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party have the opposite idea of extending this scheme to primary school kids too. The contrast couldn't be starker. One party wants all kids to get at least one decent healthy meal per day, regardless of class, colour or creed. The other party wants the children of the poor to be so starving hungry so they can't concentrate on their school work.
- Theresa May and the Tories have openly ditched the 2015 pledges to not increase Income Tax and National Insurance. We know they already tried to hike National Insurance in March 2017, but were forced to U-turn by the opposition parties and a Tory backbench rebellion. If Theresa May wins a landslide she'll be able to raise taxes on workers' pay with impunity. Labour has pledged not to raise taxes for the 95%.
- Theresa May and the Tories are intent on playing a reckless game of brinkmanship with the entire future of the UK. Their so-called "negotiating strategy" has been an ever escalating sequence of threats and then a shockingly unstable paranoid rant outside Downing Street when Theresa May got rattled by what was published in a German newspaper article! The "no deal" Brexit May has been threatening would be a catastrophe for the UK economy (even the Tories are calling it "the nuclear option") and a thumping Tory majority would give Theresa May the means to deliver what the hard-right of the Tory party have wanted all along.
- Theresa May and the Tories are plotting to bring back the barbaric practice of ripping live foxes to pieces with packs of dogs. 84% of people oppose this depravity, but bringing it back is one of Theresa May's big priorities.
- Theresa May and the Tories are intent on throwing away the Leveson report into press standards. They want to let their chums in the right-wing press can pretend that the hacking of a dead teenage girl never really happened, and that there should be no consequences, and the right-wing press are repaying this favour with the most biased one-sided pro-Tory drivel imaginable during the election campaign.
- Theresa May and the Tories have announced a very sinister sounding crackdown on the Internet. They want to give themselves the power to decide what counts as "objective" news, and what people should be allowed to see and share on social media. What's the betting that independent media sites that criticise the government (like this one) would be repressed, while the extreme-right propaganda rags (S*n/Daily Mail/Telegraph/Express) would be allowed to continue spreading their divisive hatemongering and lies with impunity?
- Theresa May and the Tories are keen to defend communist China's huge stakes in vital UK infrastructure and services (the National Grid, rail franchises, water companies). Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party want to repatriate these services and run the for the good of the British economy, and the good of the British people. Amazingly Theresa May has the brass neck to question Jeremy Corbyn's patriotism!
Despite all of these horrific policies the political sleepwalkers will be coming out in their millions to vote Tory on June 8th.
Please tell me you're not one of these drones who will actually go out and vote Tory just because the mainstream media told you to ...
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