Can we really Trust Teresa May with a blank cheque?

Whta would be frightening is Corbyn in power.

What , all the right letters...but not necessarily in the right order!

If that is in reference to my post I think you will find that what I said the Conservatives believe in is what Conservatives say they believe in (you could ask them if they do). The vote after the war is a fact too. The story of the frog (sometimes a fox) and the scorpion exists.

Just what are you disagreeing with and saying is opinion other than things that are obviously phrased as opinion rather than fact such as "No one, surely ..."

Should have read "If that is in reference to my post, roses,

Whta would be frightening is Corbyn in power.

... and that is just an opinion. Role on the teaching of critical thinking to the young; many of the old have not got it yet.

Only the foolish would think that most anti-May voters expect her not to win.

I shall bear that in mind...

hard to believe on here Ana isn't it? anyone would imagine that Corbyn and his millions of followers would win the GE hands down.

I think, too, that only the most foolish would believe that the Tories have had a complete revolution in their ideological stance. They never have been the 'party of the workers', so why now?

maize they aren't.

You only have to look at their actions to realise that they are far from that, for example , May did talk about "workers representation" but that was immediately scuppered by the hard right and the CBI.

And, if she even means it this time (which I doubt) she'll be scuppered by the hard right MPs the Party has helicoptered in...

I am not saying I/we don't live in hope Ana but what I want is at least a balanced government. I would no more want Labour or the Lib Dems to get a landslide even though I would prefer either of them to be the party of government. A workable majority makes for better parliamentary government in my view.

It is a mask Maizie and Whitewave. If I could draw a cartoon it would be of a May mask being held up to disguise the real intentions of the hard and harder right of the rest of the Tory party ... and each would hold a knife aimed at her back.

Perhaps Corbyn is a puppet of the far left and May a puppet of the far right.

Possibly they are each the acceptable face of the extremes of their parties.

I think you're probably right, Ginny.

I'm wondering how much of May's campaign is being controlled by her two Special Advisers. The ones who don't let her go too near to the general public.

I heard one had been sacked after letting her go on Facebook yesterday.
It could just be a rumour, of course.

May's blank cheque and mountain of debt.

voxpoliticalonline.com/2017/05/16/you-have-to-laugh-at-media-attempts-to-rubbish-labours-spending-plans/

Knowing what a mess the government has made of any IT that it has tried to change ( think tax, NHS and DWP) should we really trust them with this?

kittysjones.wordpress.com/2017/05/19/theresa-may-pledges-to-create-new-internet-that-would-be-controlled-and-regulated-by-government/

Good voxpop article Jen. (Is the really how you spell magicked? - yet another weird word!)

Yes it is. I have my dictionary next to me, and had to look it up. You are right, it doesn't look correct.

Just been looking up some figures, too. There are over 12 million pensioners, and the Tories are going to take away the fuel payment from three quarters of them that means that only 3 million will get it.
Of those 3 million, 1.6 million are living below the poverty line, even with that extra pittance.

As said earlier, it's no wonder the Tories will not give figures.
Taking £200 away from 9 million pensioners, but giving £1000 back in tax to people earning over £50,000.

By the way, over 3 million people earn over £50,000, so IMay is taking from pensioners and giving to the top 10% of earners.

The school lunches are beginning to look mean as well listening to Jamie Oliver this evening

I didn't see that Whitewave but well done him.

Slight thread derailment, please excuse me.

Is the really how you spell magicked?

It is correct because 'e' after a 'c' usually indicates that the 'c' is sounded as 's'. So you have to put the 'k' in to keep it as a 'k' sound. In the 18th C you find most words ending in 'ic' being spelled with a 'ck'. magick, tragick, politick etc.

I used to teach this sort of thing

Right,as you were, ladies!

Same here, Maizie, but it still doesn't look right.

I saw Jamie Oliver. He was really angry. Well done, Jamie.

Maybe what is not right is that they turned it into a verb. It says the verb is informal, so obviously not in normal use.
Interestingly it's the 'c' that was added. In middle English it just had the 'k'.