Theresa May's dance moves are not great. She was filmed dancing at a school in South Africa and people are taking the piss.
Sure, she's a public figure and ridicule should be expected in a country where people have the free speech to criticise their political leaders, but surely there are more important things to criticise her about?
Here are a few suggestions:
- Another one of Theresa May's crackpot schemes as Home Secretary involved introducing ridiculously botched legislation to deal with so-called "legal highs". May just copied the legislation off Ireland in spite of the fact that the Irish policy of pushing the novel psychoactive substances market into the hands of criminals led to the biggest increase in consumption of these substances anywhere in Europe!
- Theresa May has demonstrated time and again that she's a hopelessly weak leader without the authority to sack her ministers, even for the most blatant abuses of their office. When Priti Patel was caught working as an operative of a foreign state embedded within the UK government, she was allowed to resign and keep her job as a Tory MP. When Boris Johnson made one idiotic remark after another and even broke collective responsibility by publishing his own personal Brexit manifesto - he wasn't sacked. This hopelessly weak leadership means the liar Esther McVey and the serially incompetent Chris Grayling still sit in her cabinet!
Basically, in light of all of this, if you're taking the piss out of Theresa May's lame dance moves, you're actually giving her an easy ride, because ridiculing her cringeworthy dancing is basically the equivalent of Rupert Murdoch's bacon sandwich attack on Ed Miliband.
By focusing attention on some trivial issue like her crappy dance moves, people are actually distracting attention away from her malice, her incompetence, and all the vile policies she's promoted, and even laying the foundations for right-wingers to paint this absolute monster as the poor innocent victim of cruel attacks from "nasty lefties"!
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A lot of the post-election focus has (understandably) been on Theresa May's efforts to cling onto power by throwing members of her inner circle under the public opinion bus and sucking up to the most extreme political party in parliament, but we mustn't forget some major issues from the campaign.
All of these issues need to be addressed
1. Security
During the election extreme security lapses led to two avoidable terrorist atrocities.
One was committed by an Islamist fanatic known to be plotting a terror attack against the UK who was allowed to come back through the UK border and was left unwatched as he planned and executed his attack.
The ringleader of the next was such a well known extremist he'd even featured in a Channel 4 documentary called "The Jihadists next door".
During the election Theresa May refused to release the report into the funding of terrorist networks in the UK, presumably because it allegedly implicates Saudi Arabia.
The extreme security lapses can't just be allowed to pass because they happened during an election and everyone was focused on campaigning, and serious pressure needs to be applied to get the government to admit what they know about foreign funding of terrorist networks in the UK.
2. The Naylor Report
If it wasn't for a citizen journalist called Chris Holden few of us would ever have considered the contents of the Naylor Report that Theresa May was championing.
It's basically a plot to use public money to bribe hospitals into selling their land off on the cheap to property speculators, and if they don't take the bribe they get their funding slashed.
It's nothing less than Tory asset stripping of the NHS.
There needs to be a concerted effort to oppose the implementation of the Naylor Report.
3. Dark ads
The Tories ran an unprecedented campaign of dark ads, spending millions on spewing their propaganda all over social media, front loading Youtube songs with political attack adverts, and hijacking political Google searches with paid ads.
There are several things to consider.
In my view the specific targeting of particular voters in particular constituencies with dark ads should surely be declared under local, rather than national campaign budgets.
There should be an absolute requirement that copies of every political advert are lodged with the electoral authorities.Many of these Tory adverts (including the one they used to hijack Google searches for the Labour manifesto) contained outright lies about opposition parties and politicians. The electoral authorities really need to explain to the public what they intend to do to stop the dissemination of outright political lies.
Additionally steps should be taken to ensure that no political party is allowed to hijack legitimate Google searches by paying for sponsored ads at the top of the search.
4. Lying politicians
Aside from the campaign of Tory dark ads, numerous Tory politicians were guilty of outright lying to the British public. Theresa May herself told a couple of absolute whoppers.
Theresa May outright lied about Diane Abbott's stance on the DNA database (she doesn't want it scrapped, she wants the DNA of innocent people, including victims of crime, removed from it).
May also lied that Labour proposes "uncontrolled immigration", when in reality their manifesto pledged clampdowns on all kinds of harmful migration and increased funding of services for areas that have had large immigration influxes (see here) and is actually far more sensible than the Tory approach of recycling their twice-broken promise to reduce immigration to an arbitrary number.
After Brexit and now this, something really needs to be done to prevent our politicians from deliberately lying to us.
5. Yes First Strike
One of the most bizarre aspects of the General Election debate was the way Jeremy Corbyn was repeatedly rounded on by the public and the mainstream media for his sensible No First Strike nuclear weapons policy, but Theresa May wasn't hauled over the coals at all about the announcement of a crackpot Tory Yes First Strike nuclear policy.
I oppose nuclear weapons, but I at least understand the nuclear deterrent argument people put forward in favour of them. Yes First Strike makes no such sense. It's total and utter madness that would, in times of global conflict, actually significantly increase the chances of a nuclear strike against London in order to eradicate the insane strike first leader before they themselves launch a nuclear attack.
The Tory government needs to be pressed a lot more on Theresa May's Yes First Strike nuclear policy because I'm pretty sure that public opinion would be strongly against Britain being the country to trigger Armageddon by using nukes as attack weapons.
6. Austerity
Tory austerity dogma resulted in the slowest recovery from a recession since the South Sea Bubble burst in the 18th Century, the lowest level of house building since the early 1920s, the worst wage collapse since records began, and the least affordable house prices in history.
Not only that, but we've been getting left behind on the world stage because the Tories have been investing far less in infrastructure development (the foundations of future economic prosperity) than any other developed nation because of the Tories' ideological fixation with their economically inept and self-defeating cost-cutting exercises.
For seven ruinous years the mainstream media has pitifully failed to hold the Tories to account over their ideological fixation with austerity dogma. But after more voters supported anti-austerity parties than pro-austerity parties in this election, surely now is the time for austerity dogma to be subjected to proper public scrutiny, especially at the supposedly impartial BBC?
7. Dementia Tax
The Tories' depraved policy of asset stripping people who need social care has not gone away. They've simply announced that there will be a limit on how much wealth they can extract from frail old people and other disabled people. They've not said how much that limit would be, nor whether it would be an overall cap (a weak incentive to suicide) or an annual limit that rolls over indefinitely (a strong incentive to suicide).
Questions need to be asked about the details that Theresa May failed to disclose, and also over the morality of the policy. How is it remotely justifiable to asset strip frail old people whilst simultaneously giving tens of £billions in handouts to corporations and your mega-rich chums?
8. Tory self-interest
Theresa May could have maintained political power until 2020, but she clearly and undeniably put her own self-interest above the good of the nation by calling a snap election when her poll lead was at an all-time high.
Instead of conducting Brexit amicably (taking the views of opposition parties and devolved governments into consideration and forming some kind of UK-wide consensus) she wanted to crush all political opposition to be crowned the undisputed Brexit queen to dictate the whole process herself.
After the failure of David Cameron's EU referendum gamble (wagered in order to poach a few hundred thousand UKIP voters in 2015), Theresa May's vanity election is the second time in a single year that the Tories have thrown the nation into chaos by putting their own opportunistic self-interest first.
It's now abundantly clear that the Tory party simply can't be trusted to consider the good of the nation as a whole above the self-serving opportunism of their leaders.
9. Press corruption
One of Theresa May's most despicable manifesto pledges was to sling the Leveson investigation into press corruption into the bin as if Rupert Murdoch's minions had never hacked into the phone of a murdered teenage girl.
During the election the billionaire-owned propaganda rags went into absolute overdrive with an unprecedented smear-mongering campaign against Labour.
Thankfully the smear-mongering tactics didn't pay off and deliver Theresa May the super-majority she was expecting when she called her vanity election, but the malign influence of the billionaire press barons was still enough to help her avoid a resounding defeat, which means there's still the possibility that the Tories will try to bin the Leveson investigation as a favour to their faithful mainstream media attack dogs.
The astoundingly biased smear-mongering conducted by certain publications during the election is another important reason that the investigation into press corruption absolutely mustn't be dropped.
10. Internet freedom
Theresa May is obsessed with controlling the Internet. Even after the woeful security lapses that led to murderous acts of barbarism during the election campaign, her initial response was to piggyback her pre-existing authoritarian fixation onto the atrocities by harking on about censoring the Internet.
Theresa May doesn't like the freedom of the Internet because it allows people to think outside the constraints of the neoliberal consensus that she is the figurehead of.
All the talk about preventing terrorism is just a front for her extreme-surveillance agenda. If she actually gave a crap about terrorism then she wouldn't have ignored all the expert advice (community engagement is the very first defence against Islamist and extreme-right radicalisation) and ploughed on with her plan to devastate community policing by scrapping 20,000 police jobs.
11. Human rights
Theresa May didn't just opportunistically piggyback her hatred of Internet freedom onto the terrorist atrocities that happened under her watch, she also tried to infect the debate with her visceral hatred of our human rights.
She's so incapable of thinking things through that she doesn't even understand that the destruction of our western justice-based human rights would be seen as a massive ideological victory for the Islamist extremists.
These depraved fanatics absolutely hate our liberal values and our non-Sharia justice systems. If we scrapped our human rights after one suicide bombing and a couple of sick rampages through the streets of London, they'd obviously see it as a huge victory and wonder what more could be achieved with a more concerted and coordinated sequence of attacks.
What we can do
Write to your MP:
If you have an opposition MP you can ask them what their party intends to do to hold the Tories to account over these 11 issues (feel free to include a link if you want to raise all 11 issues, or copy and paste from this blog if you intend to raise one or just a few specific issues).
If you have a Tory MP you can write to them and ask them to provide explanations. I'd be interested to see what they come up with to defend all of this hideous stuff.
Write to your MP here (remember to include your name and postal address and then they have an obligation to reply to your message)
Contact mainstream media:
Get in touch with mainstream media publications to request more coverage on these issues. Submit contributions to their letters pages. Contact individual mainstream media journalists that you respect and ask them if they would consider working to shed more public light on any of these subjects.
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Elderly people are way more likely to vote Tory than any other demographic (the reasons for this are complex and I've addressed them in another article here).
Obviously not all elderly people are Tory voters, but almost two thirds of the ones who turn out to vote are, which means that being old is actually more of an indicator of Tory sympathies than being stinking rich!
Talking to our Gran/Gandpa/elderly relatives and asking them to think again about supporting the Tories might be absolutely key in stopping Theresa May and her bully boys from getting a parliamentary majority.
A quick quiz
Here's one potential line of questioning you could use to make them think about what they are actually voting for. Tell them that it's a quiz and ask them these questions (read them off your phone or print this article out if needs be) and get them to provide a specific yes/no answer to each of them.
1. Would you vote for Jeremy Corbyn if he had put together a shambolic uncosted manifesto that didn't explain where the money was coming from to pay for over 50 of his policies?
2. Would you vote for Jeremy Corbyn if he was planning to scrap the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensioners, but refused to say where the means testing limit would be set, so loads of them would only find out if they lose their winter fuel allowance after the election is over?
3. Would you vote for Jeremy Corbyn if he was fighting to help the Chinese government maintain control over the British rail network, British water supplies, and the British national grid?
4. Would you vote for Jeremy Corbyn if he kept running away and hiding instead of debating his political opponents?
5. Would you vote for Jeremy Corbyn if he was planning to take food out of infant school children's mouths in order to give his rich friends a big tax break?
6. Would you vote for Jeremy Corbyn if he said he was going to put an extra £8 billion into the NHS, but when the experts looked into it they found that there wasn't a single extra penny above what thay already said they would spend?
7. Would you vote for Jeremy Corbyn if he said that he would trigger a nuclear war by using nuclear missiles as a first-strike to attack other countries with?
8. Would you vote for Jeremy Corbyn if he was planning to scrap the Triple Lock on pensions because it's "unaffordable" but somehow he's got a spare £70 billion to hand to corporations and the mega-rich?
9. Would you vote for Jeremy Corbyn if his manifesto included a policy of providing school breakfasts at 6.8 pence per child, per day? (ancillary question on how much breakfast they think they could make themselves for less than 7p)
10. Would you vote for Jeremy Corbyn if his manifesto promised to scrap the Leveson Report into press corruption so that the newspapers could just carry on as if they had never hacked into the phone of a murdered teenager (Milly Dowler) and made her parents imagine that she was still alive? (ancillary question on why they think the press is so heavily biased in the Tories favour)
11. Would you vote for Jeremy Corbyn if he refused to rule out cutting even more police jobs, even after Manchester?
12. Would you vote for Jeremy Corbyn if he proposed a policy of asset stripping elderly people who get frail and need social care, but he wouldn't come clean about how much he was going to take from them until after the election?
Once they've (hopefully) answered "no" to pretty much all of these questions, you can tell them that all of these things are what Theresa May is doing, and every single one of these things is opposed by Jeremy Corbyn.
If they doubt that it can be true then here are articles providing proof (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
See what their reaction is when you tell them that all of that stuff is Theresa May.
If they say that they still want to vote Tory even when they know that, ask them why they would not vote for Jeremy Corbyn when they thought it was him doing those things, but they're going to vote for Theresa May when they know that she's definitely doing those things.*
Another approach
An alternative approach to making them question how bad Theresa May and the Tories are is to fill them with enthusiasm for Jeremy Corbyn.
- Tell them how Britain is spending less on infrastructure and innovation than any other developed nation and how Jeremy Corbyn wants to invest in better infrastructure for future generations.
- Tell them that you're really enthusiastic about Jeremy Corbyn's National Education Service because you think absolutely everyone should have the right to free education, no matter what their age or background, and that the more educated people there are in Britain, the richer the country will be for all of us.
- Tell them that they deserve to be looked after in their old age and that Jeremy Corbyn won't scrap the Triple Lock, snatch their winter fuel allowance, or asset strip their house if they get frail and need social care.
- Tell them that Jeremy Corbyn is a clever man who understands the value of arts, music and the creative industries, and how these things don't just enrich our cultural lives, but also bring loads of money into the UK economy too.
- Tell them that you really like the Labour Brexit minister Keir Starmer QC, and you think he's really clever and would do a miles better job of handling the Brexit negotiations than David Davis (he doesn't seem to have a clue what he's doing does he?)
- Tell them that Jeremy Corbyn wants to repatriate our rail services, water companies and national grid back off the Chinese government and run them for the benefit of the British people instead.
- Tell them that Jeremy Corbyn is really popular with the young people (68% Labour to 16% Tory) because they love his economic policy of investing for the future, rather than cutting, and cutting, and cutting until there's nothing left like the Tories.
Show them stuff on your phone
A very high percentage of elderly people have no access to social media. Maybe showing them some video clips and infographics might help them see things from a different perspective?
Here are the videos I've posted to Facebook during the election: AAV Videos
Here are my most recent infographics: AAV Infographics
Offer them a lift
Perhaps one of the most important things you can do is offer them a lift to the polling station and talk to them about your enthusiasm for Labour's manifesto as you take them there?
Conclusion
I'm not sure any of these approaches will work because people often gut stuck in their ways, especially when they're old, but one thing I'm pretty sure of is that they'd be delighted that you stopped by to pay them a visit or called them on the phone, even if the conversation is mainly about politics.
Even if you fail to convince them to stop being Tory enablers, they're still your elderly relatives and they most likely love you a lot and really appreciate your company.
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* = If they respond with rote-learned right-wing tropes about the IRA or nuclear weapons, here are the antidote articles if you can get them to look at them (IRA / Nukes), maybe print them off beforehand and leave them at their house? Maybe print off this one about Dementia Tax and this one about media bias too?
If you watched the Question Time election debate on June 2nd you will have witnessed Jeremy Corbyn being berated by a succession of furious elderly men, with a few questions from other less vociferous demographics sprinkled in.
The two main themes these elderly men attacked Corbyn on were clearly rote-learned straight out of the pages of the right-wing press.
None of them even seemed remotely interested in Corbyn's actual answers to their questions, they just wanted to vent their fury, and the right-wing propaganda barons have trained them that Corbyn is the Emmanuel Goldstein figure to be attacked and despised, and that stuff like his involvement in the Irish peace process, and his No First Strike nuclear policy are the main attack points.
It's funny that the right-wing blowhards who were crying bitter tears of outrage just a few days ago about the Election debate audience being "rigged" because for some reason the audience weren't inclined to applaud Paul Nuttall's divisive hard-right posturing, suddenly had no complains at all about the extremely odd demographic balance of the Question Time audience.
If the people who were picked by the BBC to ask questions of Jeremy Corbyn are anything to go by, the UK population is obviously more than 50% comprised of angry, old, cognitively stunted, right-wing, white males. Meanwhile elderly females don't even exist at all (maybe they were all at home doing the housework while their husbands were busy venting incoherent fury on the tellybox?).
Anyway since these people represent the majority of those who were invited to speak by the BBC, let's consider who they are:
These are the people who believe in snatching food out of children's mouths and slashing the education budget, because making sure our kids (that our future prospects as a nation will rely on) are well fed and well educated is obviously "leftie do-gooder nonsense" and "political correctness gone mad".
These are the people who prefer to listen to empty political flim flam that's easy to rote learn without even thinking about it, and hate actual policy talk because it requires a bit of cognitive effort.
These are the people who simultaneously believe that Britain is so poor that we can't afford to properly fund hospitals, schools, police, the border agency or the fire service, but somehow we are so rich that we can afford to lavish another £70 billion in tax breaks on corporations and the mega-rich!
These are the people who will shout down anyone who ever disagrees with the fanatical right-wing dogma the media press barons have programmed them to believe in, and will never change their minds because they're too angry to listen to anything that doesn't conform to what they already believe in.
These are the people who are furious with Jeremy Corbyn for talking to the Irish republican (and Ulster loyalist) politicians to try to get them to sit down and negotiate a peaceful settlement to the conflict, and they don't give a toss that Margaret Thatcher was negotiating secret deals with the actual terrorists all the way through the 1980s, whilst brazenly lying to the British public that "we don't negotiate with terrorists"!
These are the people who have been brainwashed into believing that the mild-mannered democratic socialist Jeremy Corbyn is a communist sympathiser, even though he wants to repatriate British infrastructure and services and Theresa May is the one who wants to keep huge chunks of our railways, water supplies and national grid under Chinese communist control!
These are the people who don't give a damn that house prices are at the most unaffordable level in history while the Tories oversee the lowest house building levels since the 1920s. They already own houses so why should they care. They're alright Jack!
These are the people who "wargasm" at Theresa May's policy of using nuclear weapons as first strike attack weapons (rather than as a nuclear deterrent), and consider Jeremy Corbyn a dangerous madman for saying he would never trigger nuclear Armageddon by launching a nuclear strike first!
These are the people who are absolutely craving for Theresa May to flounce away from the Brexit negotiations with nothing because they're not the ones who will have to pay the price when the economy goes into recession and hundreds of thousands of people lose their jobs.
These are the people who will troop to the polls in their millions on June 8th to allow Theresa May to continue asset stripping the UK and handing out the pieces to whoever wants a slice (including the Chinese communist government and the Islamist tyrants in Qatar).
These are the people who are invincible in their own minds. In their own minds they won't ever get ill and need a functioning NHS, and they won't ever suffer from age-related degenerative diseases. It'll always be other people who have their houses asset stripped off them to cover the cost of yet another round of Tory corporate tax handouts.
These are the people who will decide the future of our nation if YOU don't get out and vote.
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A look at the Tory Twitter accounts reveals that:
11 of Theresa May's last 11 Tweets are about Brexit and 28 of the official Conservative account's last 30 Tweets are about Brexit.
The Tories think that they can turn the General Election into a single issue campaign and stop people talking about anything else, so we need to defy them by talking about these things:
► The Tory "manifesto of misery": Not only is the Tory manifesto absolutely full of horrific policies, it's also an almost completely uncosted mess.
► Scrapped free infant school meals: A policy of literally snatching food out of kid's mouths.
► Dementia Tax: A depraved plan to asset strip frail elderly people in order to fund even more tax giveaways for corporations and the super-rich.
► The systematic abuse of disabled people: The Labour manifesto pledges to shut down the corporate disability denial factories, the Tories will keep them open (even though they cost the taxpayer more to run than they will ever save in reduced disability-related social welfare!).
► Theresa May's cowardice: Hiding in Tory safe spaces, evading public debates, refusing to answer questions, chickening out of appearing on Woman's Hour! - Theresa May's cowardly aversion public scrutiny paints a picture of a woman who will be utterly incapable of handling the Brexit negotiations.
► Scrapped pledge not to raise Income Tax: Why do you think the Tories have scrapped this pledge from their 2015 manifesto?
► Scrapped pledge not to raise National Insurance: Why do you think the Tories have scrapped this pledge from their 2015 manifesto?
► Theresa May's plot to bring back fox hunting: 84% of the public oppose the barbaric practice of ripping apart live foxes with packs of dogs, Theresa May wants to bring it back.
► School breakfasts at 6.8 pence per child: One of the only costings in the shambolic Tory manifesto is a pledge to provide school breakfasts at just 6.8 pence per child, per day!
► Theresa May recycling her failed immigration pledge for a 3rd time: In 2010 Theresa May promised to reduce migration to below 100,000 (she increased it to the all time record high of 336,000). In 2015 Theresa May promised to reduce migration to below 100,000 (she totally failed again). In 2017 Theresa May is promising to reduce migration to below 100,000. Who on earth would believe her empty anti-immigration rhetoric 3rd time around?
► UK economic growth rate lowest in the G7: The UK growth rate has slumped to just 0.2%. That's the joint worst in the G7 with Italy.
► Tax-dodging billionaires bankrolling the Tory party: The Tory party are raising £millions in donations from the billionaire class who want to keep society rigged in their favour. Several of these billionaire Tory backers are proven tax-dodgers.
► The Tories' disgraceful campaign of Dark Ads: The Tories are blasting £millions on plastering anti-Labour attack ads all over the Internet, and they're refusing to provide examples of what they've been sending out to the electoral authorities.
► The UK productivity crisis: Under the Tory government the UK has suffered an appalling productivity crisis. We're getting left miles behind our rivals like Germany, Japan, France and the USA, and the problem is getting worse, not better.
► The Chinese takeover: Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party have pledged to repatriate vital British infrastructure (rail, water supplies, national grid) and run them for the benefit of the British people. Theresa May wants to keep these things under the control of the Chinese government.
► Binning the Leveson Report: The Tory manifesto pledges to scrap the Leveson Report into press corruption as if Murdoch's hacks hacking the phone of a dead teenage girl never happened.
► Scrapped Triple Lock on pensions: Labour are pledging to keep the Triple Lock so that the UK's woeful state pension keeps rising by at least 2.5% per year. In 2015 the Tories pledged to keep the Triple Lock until 2020, but now they're planning to scrap it.
► The UK wage slump: Since 2010 UK workers have suffered the worst wage slump since records began. The purchasing power of UK wages has collapsed worse than any other developed nation apart from crisis-stricken Greece.
► More police cuts: Since 2010 The Tories have reduced per capita policing to 1970s levels. Now both Theresa May and the Home Secretary Amber Rudd have flat out refused to rule out even more police cuts. Labour would reverse the worst of the Tory cuts to the public safety budget by putting 10,000 extra bobbies on the beat.
► Scrapped pledge to ban the ivory trade: In 2015 the Tories pledged to ban the ivory trade. In 2017 they removed that pledge from their manifesto.
► The Naylor Report: Theresa May says she backs the findings of the Naylor Report, which promotes the policy of using taxpayers' cash to bribe NHS trusts into selling off their land on the cheap to property developers. If they don't take the bribes and keep their land they get hit with economic sanctions.
► Winter Fuel Allowance secrecy: Theresa May is outright refusing to explain where the means testing limit would be applied, meaning nobody knows how many million pensioners would lose their Winter Fuel Allowance.
► The biggest education funding cuts in generations: The Tory manifesto reveals that they're going to slash £9 billion from the education budget. This will be the biggest education funding cut in generations, meaning severe cutbacks for almost every classroom in the country.
► Theresa May's cowardly silence on Donald Trump trying to trash the Paris Climate deal: This is shameful and unacceptable. The governments of the world agreed a plan of action, Donald Trump is trying to wreck it, and Theresa May is standing by and saying nothing while the rest of the world (and significant swathes of the United States) unite in condemnation.
► The NHS recruitment crisis: Theresa May has triggered a massive NHS recruitment crisis by scrapping the NHS bursary. She's driven 10,000 trainee nurses away in just one year.
► Arming Saudi Arabia: Theresa May selling arms to Saudi Arabia when she knows they're using British weapons to commit war crimes in Yemen, and she knows that Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest financial backers of ISIS.
► More austerity: The Tory manifesto openly admits that austerity has failed because the deficit will not be eliminated until mid-2020s, but they're continuing with their socially and economically ruinous "let's cut our way to growth" austerity dogma regardless. They're sticking with it because it was never actually intended to deal with the public debt problem, it's actually just a con to provide cover for wealth redistribution policies that have literally doubled the wealth of the super-rich minority while the rest of us suffer the cuts and wage repression.
Conclusion
The Tories are desperately trying to totally focus the election on Brexit because they know that their track record in government is an absolute disgrace, and because they don't have any positive policies to campaign on.
They're trying to turn it into a single issue election because they think that the British public can be fooled into ignoring everything else, so we mustn't let them.
Make sure you talk to other people about any of these subjects over the next week, and make sure that they know the Tories are trying to bury their unjustifiable track record in government and their pathetically shambolic manifesto of misery under a tide of Brexit rhetoric.
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