This "businessman", apparently.At the next General election, I wonder who will be the Labour candidate for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich?
But it does give you a flavour of what these cruel scum bags want to do.
- An attempt to end the junior doctors pay dispute with a 10-12% offer.
- Further cuts to legal migration numbers, with a curb on the number of foreign students staying in the UK.
- Vow to increase defence spending to 3% of GDP by 2027.
- Introduce measures to jail prolific offenders and build rapid detention cells to increase prison capacity.
- Cut the benefits bill, with a target to reduce payments for depression and anxiety
You'd have thought that by now so many people must know someone suffering seriously from depression or anxiety that it's not really going to be a popular move.The let’s shit on those already suffering thing is I think perhaps especially grim.
And you'd hope that a good number of those who don't might just see this for what it is; uncaring, vindictive, mean, nasty, ideological penny-pinching that would end up causing untold misery and, even by their own psychopathic metrics, cost the state more in the long run. Cunts.You'd have thought that by now so many people must know someone suffering seriously from depression or anxiety that it's not really going to be a popular move.
And it's basically saying to millions of people 'Your condition is imaginary and it'll be sorted out by an honest day's work'
Could they just cut payments prior to the election? It isn't, iirc, a manifesto commitment, and wouldn't it require parliamentary time?Usual Tory fantasy policies here for this “100 day policy offensive” mooted by some rebels
Tory rebels plan 100-day ‘policy blitz’ if local elections are disaster for party
Worried MPs have concocted five-point plan of quick measures aimed at showing that the party cares about public’s prioritieswww.theguardian.com
But it does give you a flavour of what these cruel scum bags want to do.
More money for weapons, and disgustingly that is to be paid for by attacking support for unwell people.
" Give your head a shake" I was told by a work colleague in the middle of a panic attack. She had Tory written all over her.AKA "Pull yourself together"
If I hadn't been feeling like I was going to faint through lack of oxygen I would have kicked her into next week..Did you nut her?
In a horrible kind of way, it's the people most in denial about mental health stuff who, when it does hit, get clobbered the hardest. It's almost karmic.If I hadn't been feeling like I was going to faint through lack of oxygen I would have kicked her into next week..
Karma got her, heard years later she packed in work through severe anxiety.
It is, of course, far more calculating and targeted than that. They're clearly looking at their numbered days in office and working out what wrecking they can achieve that is unlikely to be substantially unpicked by a Reeves-driven LP administration.Imagine looking at your parliament record so far when the polls all say you're going to be buried and going 'Hmmm, maybe we've not been cunty enough'
It is, of course, far more calculating and targeted than that. They're clearly looking at their numbered days in office and working out what wrecking they can achieve that is unlikely to be substantially unpicked by a Reeves-driven LP administration.
I admire your optimism but, based on the previous musings of Reeves etc. I don't think it well placed.I think it’s the other way round. They are desperately casting around for things that Labour cannot stomach which can then be used as wedge issues.
None of them have any interest in policy for its own sake any more.
No, really I think that's dead wrong. All of them have long bought into the neoliberal, consolidator state and the attendant policy programmes that effect the transfer of wealth from taxes on labour to unearned income.None of them have any interest in policy for its own sake any more.
That and presumably a hope of picking enough votes back off Reform in a few constituencies to hold on.It is, of course, far more calculating and targeted than that. They're clearly looking at their numbered days in office and working out what wrecking they can achieve that is unlikely to be substantially unpicked by a Reeves-driven LP administration.
I think reform should just announce that they'll double pensions from all of the dosh saved from the scroungers/forriners.That and presumably a hope of picking enough votes back off Reform in a few constituencies to hold on.