please empty your brain below
I guess I can just hope that 6 occupies so much of their time that they don't have time for some of the rest.
Having to hear Mrs. May for 5 years, I cannot stand the woman.
WTF? This has appeared out of nowhere. There is so many things that worry me in this manifesto but I simply don't understand why this is here.
Not that my view is relevant as she's heading for a walkover.
Is it only me that thinks dealing with Brexit is such a monumental task that this will take up 200% of the civil service time. I just don't see there being any capacity to deal with anything else during the next parliamentary term.
19 - they always promise this - remember Labour, they will no doubt move one high profile 'thing' then stop.
24 - we will work towards ......, a politicians promise if ever there was one, although companies use it in their mission statements.
30 - 'addressing issues', more politicians speak for changing nothing - they'll no doubt have a 'review'.
42 - if a union has already agreed an operational practice with one piece of equipment, then it's not beyond the bounds of reason to pass legislation blocking them from not doing it with the same equipment for no other reason than it's a different colour or operated by a different company.
43 - oh look, a 'review'.
45 - we will offer a round figure, then attach loads of conditions.
47 - work until you die
49 - during this year all your household bills will be paid by fairies
54 - note the phrase 'we will', no 'reviews', no 'we will work towards', they also know they'll win the next election, as it's over 10 years
56 - after 15 years you'll be homeless again
59 - yeah - in your dreams
How many years before we default on our national debt, something that there isn't much mention of?, apparently the economy is unlikely to grow fast enough to ever pay it off.
You seem to assume that no working class families participate in hunting. Take yourself to Cumbria, where hunting is very much a working class thing. Fox hunting in the mountainous parts of Cumbria is done on foot - no horses - no crimson jackets.
Fox hunting and grammar schools. Dog whistles and dead cats.
For promises on tax, remember it is about bases as well as rates. VAT on food? Childrens clothes? Books? Housing? Promises on income tax, or NI?
One helpful trick to determine whether any of these statements carry any meaningful content is to reverse their meaning and see if that is the sort of position that any reasonable person could take, eg (1) ... "there will be ideological crusades" (2) ... "ordinary working families will be ignored." Oh.
(4) we will deny people real opportunity
(5) the government's agenda will drift to the right
(6) we will not get on with the job
(9) we will agree an unfair settlement with the EU
(39) we do not need to learn how to defeat extremism
(58) we believe there should be a safe space for terrorists
(60) we will make Britain unsafe
We must do something (about terrorists talking to each other).
This is something.
Therefore, we must do this.
24 / 37: only wealthy asylum seekers need apply (and even then we'll probably turn you away)
25. more targeted to people who aren't like us ("us" being the Tories)
32: does everyone get detention if they don't? or are they going to send teachers to prison?
38: is this a way of pretending that we're not going to lose loads of money from EU students who will choose to study in other countries after Brexit?
39: the state largely ignored racism for most of the twentieth century.
40: well hello Macarthyism.
48: the rest of the money is found at the end of the rainbow
51: we will try to privatise as much as possible without having to change the law to do it
52: share data with whom? And why does the phrase "doing more with less" keep ringing in my ears?
55: since when are mews houses "high density"
56: then you're homeless again.
57: we don't want to piss off the people who give us so much lovely election funding
58-60: welcome to Hadrian's Firewall.
As a government, we are incapable of developing a decent long-term health and welfare strategy, as we only think in silos and we don't really give a toss for the peasants.
Good luck with that!
Tory scumbags.
Of course we haven't heard nary a word about this through the media....
Interesting times. I think this marks a major paradigm shift in British politics. Tories move to the centre to be more appealling to more people. Labour moves left to irrelevance. Lib Dems just for EU-fanatics, who become fewer in number daily.
It's not good from a parliamentary perspective, but it looks like George Osborne may well end up as the de facto opposition leading voice for the next few years from his Evening Standard (and other) offices, at least until he and others committed to both social and economic liberalism (which in reality have always needed to go together) in all three (or, again, two...) main parties unite as a cohesive force in parliament and beyond
We'll build backdoors into all encryption, even though criminals will exploit them for ransomware.
60) We'll protect you from bad news and everyone who doesn't enthusiastically support The Leaderene, and we'll make you even happier than the North Koreans.
27) Extension of FPTP has come from nowhere, but when you are writing a manifesto, you can do this. Especially when you are prioritising "strong and stable" over consensus.
1) - 60) Scary
55) 'We' will build better houses, as in the government will?? - pure fantasy
56) 'We' will build new .. social houses?? Who will? Local Authorities who are currently powerless to build? a new government agency, with power to compulsorily acquire land etc. etc??
Who writes this drivel?
Simimlarly (but not identically), before the referendum some people suggested that a "Leave" outcome might be interesting. Well it is, but many people feel that its "interestingness" is insufficient compensation for the harm it is going to cause (and not only to Britons).
Big mistakes - or accomplishments - are usually made because the people don't find a way out and have to blast the hell out of the walls. (Brexit + Tory domination) is some kind of an opened Pandora's Box and I am afraid if one finds it unbearable, one ought to open another.
As someone said above the UK will be finished if even 50% of the promised rubbish materialises as law. The implementation of that manifesto will simply confirm and conclude decades (centuries?) of national self delusion as to our role in the world. Back to the 1850s never mind the 1950s and s*d the consequences for future generations and those who are poor, ill, ageing or disabled now or in the next 10-20 years.
And quite how Mrs May has the ratings she has I do not know. She is useless, vision-less, a liar, duplicitious and incurious. She is a terrifying prospect as PM. And yes the "opposition" (hah!) is even (swear word) worse. I have never been so furious and fed up about an election as this one. If I could afford to emigrate I would but I can't. It's like living in a real world manifestation of Doctor Who story lines (Harriet Jones anyone?). I just wish someone would turn up and say "don't you think she looks tired?" to Mrs May.
52) GPs are deserting the NHS in their droves. Why not address that instead of insulting them?
as for the rest: I just don't believe it's pure populism and none of the "good things" will happen and 1)-5) will soon be forgotten.
60) Goodbye internet and open society
But... I've read the other parties' manifestos.
Could be worse...
This country will never improve until we get PR. And I mean proper PR, not the AV system that has already been rejected that most people don't even remember having the opportunity to vote on in 2011.
Anyway no.27 must be resisted. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
But take away the lunches.
I mean, the dutiful parent ensures the child has a breakfast before they leave for school, then the school acts in loco parentis for the next 8 hours or so, then the dutiful parent collects the child and gives them a dinner/supper/tea whatever you call the evening meal. The dutiful parent knows that the child receives a lunch at school when they are not there to ensure that and whether or not they have provided the means for the child to obtain a lunch, i.e. money/credits/vouchers etc.
The negligent parent sends the child to school with no breakfast, they don't care about the lunch, they don't care about the evening meal. The school then, acting in loco parentis, ensures that the child has a breakfast, but what is that? An extra "lesson" at the start of the day? When does the school day start then?
So the children of dutiful parents gets two breakfasts... it makes no sense at all. Is this an anti-poverty measure? An anti-neglect measure? Just what is it intended to achieve? Besides, of course, CUTTING COSTS. The uptake of breakfasts will be minimal, seriously. The vast majority of parents will have a routine which does NOT involve them getting their child to school at any time different to what happens now to those schools with breakfast clubs. So the negligent parents just don't care what time they get the child to school.
Cutting out free, hot, school lunches is the most ludicrous part of this school reform, and playing the loss of THAT off against the addition of a free breakfast is, in my mind, treating the public with the utmost contempt.
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