Can we really Trust Teresa May with a blank cheque?

What is wrong with free school lunches being given to those in need.....only.
Those who are able to pay up should be doing, I did, didn't you?
There will still be free breakfasts for all.
What is wrong with only the poorer pensioners getting money towards fuel?
Helping the poorer in society is what we should be doing, not doling out tax payers money to all and sundry to those who don't need it.

What is wrong with free school lunches being given to those in need.....only.
Those who are able to pay up should be doing, I did, didn't you?
There will still be free breakfasts for all.
What is wrong with only the poorer pensioners getting money towards fuel?
Helping the poorer in society is what we should be doing, not doling out tax payers money to all and sundry to those who don't need it.

I'm surprised they didn't pick it up on the news Rigby.

So late ... sleep required. Good night all.

Thanks Maizie. There is a reason - I like that. I have a problem with magic anyway - g and j - so it looked really odd. It was my dogs name so you would think I would know but I haven't worked out a pneumonic that always works

What was particularly great about JO was his refutation of the need to choose between free breakfasts and free lunches - people so often get caught out by that false dichotomy and he didn't -well done

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'.

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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/

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/

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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?

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.

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

I shall bear that in mind...