In the interest of balance name me one thing one positive of this tory govt.

Jedi boro

Jedi boro

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It can be anything absolutely anythingeven a trivial one as I honestly can’t think of a single thing or part of this country they haven’t screwed up. In THIRTEEN years.

Even driving instructors are in strike.
 
The furlough scheme was good*, and dare I say it courageous, considering the make up of the cabinet at the time. However they had to do it because they completely fudged their response to the pandemic (keep the pubs open, but don't go, sporting events can go ahead as long as champagne is the drink of choice, no one who's been skiing could possibly have COVID, etc).

Apart from that... in 13 years.... they have achieved very little progress, while taking an axe to services and standards of living, and capitulating to the 'swivel eyed loonies' on Europe. Quite a few of their mates have got richer though.

*You were screwed if you were self employed, though.
 
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+1 to furlough.

Only other thing that springs to mind is the massive increase to Personal Allowance in the early days (which the Lib Dems will claim credit for). Makes a big difference to low earners. Just a shame they're undoing it by freezing it when inflation is so high.
 
Richyboro said:
That the saying is correct (not sure if Goebbels actually said it)" If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." People still believe that Brexit has benefited our country.
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‘Brexit’ people that were for remaining wouldn’t see sense from those who wanted to leave and vice versa.. what we got was the bent politicians making all the decisions and gaming our exit to their absolute gain.

Brexit was not one thing, it was a dumb name given to a huge amount of many different agreements and arrangements between countries. ‘Brexit’ has or has not benefited out country is not even a statement that will ever make sense.

The Conservative chose to have the country leave the European Union, the single market and customs union without any agreements in place. They should not have been trusted to make that move, if anything the EU was holding us together and protecting us from the disaster capitalists hiding in our own parliament!

Corbyn and a soft brexit would have wiped the floor with the tories in 2019.. remainers wouldn’t have it. All or nothing, rather see the county burn than see compromise.
Well we passed the torch to Boris Johnson and he burnt the lot down.
 
Appointing Kate Bingham as chair of the Vaccine Task Force. At the time, I was hugely sceptical and thought it was more open corruption/jobs for friends/spouses, but having listened to her interviewed a few times after she left her role, it’s clear she drove it and succeeded DESPITE the Government. Ultimately, they did well to appoint her, but then made life extremely tricky for her. Perhaps they even did appoint her for the wrong reasons - ie married to a Tory, but it worked out well and I think her expertise and drive actually saved an awful lot of lives. I’m not sure she thinks too highly of the Tory Government she had to deal with.
 
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