There is another plan - to take away our human rights.
I can't believe she wants to do that, and thinks it's a good thing to announce two days before the election.
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Can we really Trust Teresa May with a blank cheque?
(656 Posts)‘We need to seriously remind ourselves that we are being asked to cast a vote that will affect not just our lives today, but the future of generations to come’.
I desire a fairer and decent society, one that does not impose severe austerity packages on low and middle earners and so many young families. In fact, for most of us the quality of life for our own grandchildren and their prospects and safe future."
I am deeply worried about giving Teresa May and many of her RW extremists a blank cheque to do what ever they want over the next five years. I am not assured at present that we can trust her and the extreme dogma of many of her MP's. We have no guarantee she will be in office for the full term, look what happened to Maggie.
Her unwillingness to inform the Country what Brexit will mean if she gets her on way with the EU and she is not even prepared to debate her election policies on TV for us all to hear and give our approval,or dissent is worrying. Forget about Corbyn that is a red herring excuse given to protect her from facing the camera's and the Nations scrutiny.
Her term in office at the Home Office has not been the brightest for any leading conservative minister, nor as her ability been questioned to the full to be able to lead our nation through the trouble waters likely to be ahead after Brexit, her ability is still an important unknown factor.
No, I cannot fully put my trust in her at present, I need to have far greater assurances far better than the rude way she behaved at the dispatch box and at the rostrum outside number 10 last week.
We need to be quite clear the election is NOT on Brexit it is on policies for healing and improving the quality of life of the nation over the next five years. I want a bright future for my grandchildren, I am not sure that Teresa May knows how to achieve that with her political dogma, or that I can presently 100% trust her without her being willing to debate her policies in front of the Nation. She is possibly more worried about Nicola Sturgeon than Jeremy Corbyn.. A landslide victory is likely to send the wrong messages to her backbenchers for more draconian policies and I do not believe that is what the nation needs for our grandchildrens future. I am therefore coming round to voting Lib Dem.
Looking back now over the campaign and Mays part in it , it is clear that the more exposure May gets the less people like what they see and hear
Her instinct has always neen to avoid difficult questions and up to now her submarine tactics have served her well. But she cant get away with it as the Prime Minister.
Her use of tautology is rather than a useful tool to get a point across become a source of amusement which as a result given her the nickname of Maybot - a name even used by her own mps. Her ability at communication has been shown for what it is -bad. The ability to communicate is one of the paramount qualities of the negotiator in chief.
But most of all her manifesto, empty of real detail and failure to cost shows that this country is being governed on a wing and a prayer
There is no plan other than to cut the state - a long term project - to at least 35% of GDP. Something below every civilised western state in Europe and beyond.
A country in which we cannot possibly be proud.
Brexit will now loom large and all experts -remember them? - are becoming alarmed at both the ignorance shown and lack of planning by this government.
But hey dont worry -Dacre and Murdoch approve -so it will be OK as long as we have got supportive headlines in the filthy press.
The sad thing is that her exposure has not been long enough for the message to get through- there is an alternative
Something else May wishes she'd never said.
voxpoliticalonline.com/2017/06/06/wouldnt-you-say-laying-the-uk-open-to-terror-attacks-was-naughtier-than-running-through-a-field-mrs-may/
Mayhem can't be trusted with the police, either.
"Following the financial crash caused by the irresponsibility of the banks, governments were wanting to cut spending. They discussed the issue at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos in 2012.
I remember the TV coverage of people gliding in on their own private jets.The WEF comprises Governments, the top 1000 Transnational Companies and Media owners. This is where the transnational capitalist class does its work
of extending the influence of global corporations. At that time Simon Stevens, now the boss of the NHS, worked for the biggest US health multinational insurance company UnitedHealth. Two WEF reports were written. The second
report, entitled 'Sustainable Health Systems: Visions, Strategies, Critical Uncertainties and Scenarios(2)', examined "structural scenarios of the future which could be used to inform present-day thinking*". 'Sustainability', code for
cuts, must be achieved through transforming supply. The report went on to outline exactly the type of changes we see in the Five Year Forward View, of which the STPs are a huge element. At that time Simon Stevens himself, was
head of UnitedHealth's Global Division, and acted as Project Steward of the Steering Board for the first World Economic Forum report. So he stewarded the first report and is implementing proposals from the second, in England.
Not only that but West Yorkshire STP lead Rob Webster was a workshop participant there. Amanda Doyle, STP lead for Cumbria was another.
Simon Stevens was recruited by the Coalition, directly from United Health in 2013 to dismantle the English health service. United Health has been aquiring contracts under the NHS logo with its English name Optum. Already one
area has Optum as both Commissioning Support and 'provider of services.' What conflicts of interest are there? The councils do not have a veto, whether they subscribe to the STP plans or not. This was revealed in the House in
response to a question by Jusitn Madders MP. The public have not been consulted, nor have they voted on any of this."
This is what is happening to the NHS. It was carved up years ago by DAVOS, because they knew there was lots of money to made out of it.
DON'T LET THEM DO IT.
Your children and grandchildren will not forgive you for this.
Sad, daphne. Here's Mayhem's lies factchecked on the NHS. Can't you shove some copies through people's doors?
fullfact.org/health/spending-english-nhs/
Surely they care about their hospitals.
I was at a hustings yesterday. The Conservative candidate, who has been foisted on us, passed on a question about the environment and admitted she didn't know what the Conservative manifesto said about the issue. Unfortunately, she'll still win.
By the way, Gove said it was okay for us to get our news from skwawkbox. He might be regretting that now.
May was in Middlesborough. This is her candidate being honest. Jacob Young, he's called, just in case you get him foisted on your area in the next election.
skwawkbox.org/2017/06/06/tory-candidate-i-dont-know-what-torymanifesto-says-ge17/
Poor lad.
Nightmare prospect ww. I can hardly believe that last year I thought TM was a good bet because at least she wasn't Andrea Leadsom, but either if these two would be just appalling.
You'll make me cry whitewave. It doesn't bear thinking of.
If May goes - who?
My bet is Gove or Fox 
Why wait? You ain't seen nothing yet!
skwawkbox.org/2017/06/06/met-taking-may-electoral-breach-re-abbott-very-seriously-ge17/
The next 5 years will bring about a UK totally unrecognisable from the one we have known all our lives
I can believe they thought they could do that whitewave. There was a sense before, and at the beginning of the election, that they thought they had taken us for fools.
I don't know if the knees would stand marching but we need to continue to tell them that our NHS should not be destroyed just so the already rich can make more money from people like my poor old mum when it is privatised.
Wait until after the election - you aint seen nothing yet!!
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Dyffryn I think many people feel as you do. I notice even Labour Party MPs are beginning to say the same.
If all you see is a caricature of someone then you do think that is who they are. The good thing about an election is that those who were presenting us with that view have to be more balanced in their reporting.
I have said it before but my dream would be that the LP got in and immediately put forward a bill for PR. The all the parties could have a voice relevant to their support in the country. You are so right that no party is perfect and this would help balance the views rather than a winner takes all situation.
Sadly I think May will win again but the more votes that are against her - for whatever party - the more the Conservative will have to think about what they are doing. They don't know. Twice they have said "judge us on what we have done" and twice they looked surprised that this induced laughter in the audience. They just don't understand the damage they have done to people's lives.
The independent has published an article given to it by some NHS chiefs that says that there are secret plans to be implemented immediately after the election that will be the biggest cost cutting excercise ever.
The truly shocking cuts will spell the death knell of the NHS
As a child in Scotland I was puzzled that the Unionists did not seem to like trade unions and not all the socialites were Socialists.
Yup! From Wikipedia
During the 1890s, it formed a coalition government with the Liberal Unionist Party, a break-away faction of the Liberal Party. In 1912, the two parties merged to form the current Conservative and Unionist Party.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
I think they've been the Conservative and Unionist party since at least the late 19th century (but I'd have to check; though google is your friend..) Probably because of agitation for Irish independence. There's been no Union with Wales because the English annexed it in mediaeval times and the formal Union with Scotland was in the early 18th century.
Most people do once they listen to his speeches and ideas. It is only the rich who aren't keen. Too busy keeping their hands on their illgotten gains
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