Is Theresa May Actually Trying to Lose This Election? Is Something “Weird” Going On? (May 22, 2017)

by Alex McNamara, Evolve Politics

… millions of us are simply gobsmacked by the Tory manifesto. Even some Tories. It’s just so callous and so persecuting of the lesser fortunate, so shamelessly playing for the benefits of the upper classes and elites, it really does beggar belief – even by typical Conservative standards. They’ve also become UKIP, making Cameron and Osborne seem like liberal freedom fighters of yesteryear.

The disabled, unemployed, doctors and nurses, teachers etc, they’ve all already been shafted, but in the past few days/weeks alone, May has deliberately targeted:

• pensioners, their triple-lock pensions and fuel allowance,
• anyone requiring nursing/social care who owns a home, forcing them to pay equity to the government (instead of passing on to next of kin),
• increases to income tax and/or VAT,
• increases to interest rates on student loans,
• refusal to increase the minimum wage,
• reductions to corporation tax,
• cuts to the NHS (won’t rule out privatisation),
• no guarantee of rights for EU citizens living in the UK,
• fines for employers who do employ foreign nationals,
• reneged promises regarding the Levenson Enquiry, dropping all proposed restrictions on the Murdoch/Rothermere/Barclay tabloid press,
• an entirely volunteered repeat-vote on fox-hunting, openly supporting the hugely unpopular blood-sport,
• effectively re-legalising the immoral ivory trade for wealthy British antique dealers,
• refusing another referendum for either Scotland or the Brexit deal,
• refusal to debate publicly with the leader of the opposition, to speak openly with the press (locking them in cupboards, and staging her own publicity),
• restrictions to what British citizens can see on the internet, introducing North Korea-style censorship and state propaganda,
• gloating she would “absolutely” initiate a first-strike nuclear attack,
• sweeping all Tory campaign ‘mis-spending’ under the carpet, on account of recent legal vindication (ignoring there was nonetheless gross and unresolved over-spending).

Probably a whole load more I’ve forgotten too. ‘Policies’ more at home in a Dickensian novel or dictator handbook than 21st century Britain.

It’s just hideous. And it begs the question – who could possibly vote for this??

Meanwhile, we’ve got Boris on the loose, humiliating us all over the world like a complete and utter f**k-nugget. Some are saying, it’s actually like the Conservatives want to lose this election…

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