Reasons for voting tactically
Crises
Top of the list has to be the NHS. Hunt is probably the most hated Health Secretary ever. The NHS which entered this decade in reasonable order after the cash injection and over seeing by the Labour Party for the first decade of this century. It was sorely needed after the poor mismanagement by the. Previous Tory government.
This current decade has seen the worse crises ever in the NHS in all areas since they have been quite deliberately deprived of funding, and pushed towards privatisation.
Crises in welfare. Social Services have suffered the worse cuts ever. The result is severe shortages in all types of welfare, like care for the elderly, resulting in a knock on effect in the NHS, children's services cut etc.
Crises in schools. As a result of this governments costly vanity projects like "free" schools and the push to academies soon grammars, the state school system has never been in such a parlours state. Schools in the "rich" south east are writing begging letters to parents in the hope that they will give cash for such essentials as writing materials and toilet paper. The state school system has been under pressure from the Tory government since it took office and before. When Labour took office at the beginning of this century, the school infrastructure had never been in such a poor condition, with mould on walls, buckets to catch rain water in the classroom and general decay. Labour set up a funding project and began a whole series of school rebuilding and new works. The Tories stopped it as soon as they came to office. Prior to the Labour Government and poor funding they also plundered as much land from the school system as they dared as sold it to the rich developers. Remember the selling of the playing fields??
Crises in prisons. Tories love to "lock-em-up" but also hate to pay for it so they cut the staff and prisons budget.
The police have had thousands of their numbers cut, and this Tory government has come near to loosing the police trust and faith.
Roads - can you ever remember when our roads were in such a bad state?
Economy - never has an economy been so badly managed. We have the biggest deficit ever, even after nearly a decade of austerity, in which the poorer you are the more you have had to suffer. Hammond is now looking to raise tax and Vat as well as NIC, you can be 100% certain that it will hit the poorest hardest.
Inequality and loss of opportunity is as bad as it's ever been. Zero hours contract means that thousands upon thousands of people cannot plan for their future, have no hope of stability, have no pension, and can never be sure of any income next week or even tomorrow.
But the truth is that this Tory government is driven by an ideology that argues for a small state and low tax economy. Fine if you are wealthy and can afford, private health, private education, help in looking after you if you are elderly, but disastrous if you are not.
Don't even get me started on Brexit!!! Apart from saying that the Cameron government was distinguished by the fact that every thing they touched turned to dust.
So how have they got away with this for so long? Well certainly not because the UK has voted Tory with any enthusiasm. 2010 election they could not have governed without Lib help. And 2016 they only managed a majority of 12 -so clearly at best the UK is luke warm towards a Tory Government.
What has allowed them to get away with this awful decade is the weakness of the opposition, and its inability to override a largely hostile media. 70% of the population rejectvTory values, they need and deserve so much better.
This and so much more is why we are considering voting tactically.