Dear Conservative Voters,

Coolio many of us live in pleasant backwaters in the UK.
Yes, returning via eg Heathrow could be a shock, but most of us live nowhere London - even so, travel a few miles from Heathrow and you will find lovely areas with friendly people.

I am sure areas of Portugal are not so great or friendly, as my friend who had her bag snatched in Lisbon will testify.

The referendum of 2016 was not fraudulent. It was a badly planned and badly organised cock-up by a mentally lazy and indolent PM

One of the best lines of the year.

"Looks like some of the the vehicles the Germans, Dutch, French, Spanish and Italians are driving around my area! I must get some photos and post them of their vehicles and kids running around without shoes."

posts Cooio, (who is not at all prejudiced about these furriners?)

Ok to address the OP. Is there someone who supports this government who will tell us when we can expect to see food banks closing down, how many houses will be built and when, what money will be given to the North to replace EU funding and when the NHS will begin to provide an efficient free service? Because if none of those are going to happen (and I can't see any sign of them) you have effectively condemned another generation to grow up in poverty.

Great point trisher!

Notanan2, how you twist words and conveniently forgot to mention that I read it on this very site.

I didn't
I referred to you reading it on here.

Still demonstrates your hypocricy of berratimg youngsters fof gstting their political info "from their phone" (where you can get lots of first hand unfiltered coverage of party conferences) when you read something on a chat forum thats reposted from twitter and take it as gospel!

I cant comment on your unpleasant holiday. I don't know where you went or what you did.

And whatever device you access the internet on, its the same internet! Not having a smart phone isnt a point of pride. You clearly have some form of smart device or you wouldnt be on chat forums (which are not a far cry from social media) so you have no moral high ground there

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This new government was only sworn in yesterday trisher
House building is massively underway, as you would know if you google it, food banks pop up under the aegis of all kinds of charities so who knows about that, but the hope is to gradually reduce need for them.If they are there, some people who cannot cope will always use them.So many countries in Europe have food banks, it isn’t simply a UK thing.
The NHS still provides a free service and is hit and miss efficient as it always has been.

Oh yes labour were going to end food banks, universal credit, academy schools and 0hr contracts....
.... doesnt matter if what they were going to replace them with caused MORE misery not less...

The vulnerable would have been worse off under labour IMO. If you scrap everything and re-name everything you dont end up with a better end product.

They did not want to tweak or target anything.

Things could get worse. And would have if improved academy schools were handed back to the councils that failed them, thousands of NHS contracts get ended in the blanket 0hr ban, people who have already suffered UC teething trouble now have to suffer the teething troubles of labours new re-branded not UC version of UC. That the housing policies that were trialed at local level and FAILED get rolled out nationally plunging low income renters into worse positions than they are in now...

Yes things would have changed
under labour. But not for the better.

Oh and we would have another referendum thrown in on top of all that because the last one was so fun!

If perhaps we could just remind ourselves that austerity and all that goes with it was brought in with the Tory party for ideological reasons. It did just happen and has everything to do with them.

It's all your now notanan2 no point in posting what Labour would have done. Just look at what has happened in the last 9 years and explain how that's going to change in the next 5 (it won't). Because there are children living in poverty and they've been offered nothing.

Oooh has everyone seen the news? Brexit deal may be off if EU citizens aren't protected x

Varian
Oh as others have pointed out “furriners” equal foreigners. What a positively ridiculous statement, to say I am prejudice, do you know just how stupid this has made you look?

To also assume I am pissed every night in a bar watching sky news and reading a British newspaper also just about sums you up.

Please, please do not come out here. Thank you.

notanan2, why don't you stop banging on about WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED if Labour had got in? They didn't.

How about you focus on what the Tories have done over the last NINE years and WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN now ?????

Of course, unless you prefer to continue focusing on fantasy and not reality?

There has been confirmation of the restoration of student bursaries!

Check the Queens speech. Some good plans. Just have to implement them now. It's a start anyway.
Let's all stop moaning about 'couldas' and 'shouldas' and get on with life.

?? Jane10

Totally agree Jane 10. The country has to move on.

Peace at this time of year to you all.

Conservative Party who orchestrated campaign against Corbyn and antisemitism- doing nothing to prevent Tony so called Robinson, and members of Brexit party- where open racism is rife and islamophobia in particular- from joining the Party.

Moveon, get on with it ...

sounds great - and so empty. Get on with what- we have no idea. But we know that most or all of those empty promises won't be delivered. As for Brexit, I suppose we will end up with No Deal, because this is what ERG always wanted, for extremely selfish reasons - and how does one 'get on with that' - as we will become totally dependent on the decisions of others, be it Trump, Xi, or WTO (if it is still operating)-

Empty meme

As stated above check the Queens speech. Time to move on. ?

Move on

Sounds a whole lot more optimistic than moving back in time to the 20th century.

jura2 We're all moving on and the country is fired with optimism.

Didn't Jeremy Corbyn look petty and sulky on the walk to the House of Lords to hear the Queen's speech? I think Boris's Johnson's smirk of amusement was justly earned and a lot of other people thought so too.

The British cannot stand a bad loser.

The programme for the first year looks OK, although their environmental policy laid against their emission reduction claims makes no sense, on the contrary the environmental policy looks far to permissive in the development of carbon emitting fuels and there is nothing about any major programme to retrofit insulation into the current housing stock. Posssibly David Cameron's half baked and ineffective scheme has put them off doing anything similar.

However given that Brexit will dominate this year, we must wait for the Budget and how delivery of their promised policies for year one go.