The Tory Record of Strong and Stable Finance - Pull the other one

This morning Teresa May was interviewed on the Andrew Marr show (Sunday 30th April 20107), inevitably Andrew asked if his was going to be an election of sound bites and then the words 'strong and stable' were used. Of course May then goes on to state this is the most important election she has experienced in her lifetime. It would be because she's the who is running for PM it doesn't take an idiot to realise this. The underlying emphasis of Teresa's interview is the Tories are doing their best to build a strong economy and it is only through a strong economy the country is able to finance everything, be it the welfare system, education system or the NHS. But really we have to ask how effective has Tory governance been in achieving this? For it seems a strong economy means to the large disadvantage of many and the advantage of a few.

The Tories and May are constantly arguing it is only possible to have good Education, NHS, Welfare benefits etc etc if we have a productive and strong economy. Yet the UK has probably the worst economy since the second world war. With the total deficit now reaching £1.7 trillion pounds of debt. Under Tory leadership in the last 70 years than any other government. Counting 42 years of Tory rule and the total borrowing of the Tories £961.80 billion pounds. Since 2010 that is the last 7 years this Tory government has borrowed £555 billion pounds. It is working families who are now using food banks more than they have ever before, not just those who are living of the welfare system. May tells us 'she' has taken 4 million of people out of the tax, however this begs the question why is it 4 million people earn so little they don't pay any tax, for it shows we are increasing the number of low paid employees. Fact, nurses have had a reduction in their income by 14 percent since 2010 and are having to attend to food banks because they are unable to afford food to feed themselves as well as those people claiming benefit or in work benefits. The Trussell Trust has reported last year a massive 1.4 million food parcels were given out by food banks the most ever provided. Lets add a few more important items since the introduction of Universal Credits and austerity, the UK is now seeing a rise in infant mortality rates, child poverty is rising to such an extent there is nearly 1 in 4 children living in it. Additionally the rise of elderly deaths due to poverty is now higher than it has been seen the second world war.  The Work Capability Assessments have led to 600 suicides and highlights how this government deals with the disabled.

The table below can be seen with others from Richard Murphy see link below

http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2016/03/13/the-conservatives-have-been-the-biggest-borrowers-over-the-last-70-years/

As mentioned in yesterday's BLOG making a dividing line between rich and poor will kill the prospects of a Labour win in this election even if the statistics are true and clear that poorer people the disabled, the elderly and even the working people die and the middle classes are being neglected. They are not represented by the Tories.  Whilst the wealth of the business classes always look to the Tories in search of support reducing their taxes and increasing their profits. Their big bucks get a voice and it is heard whereas the voting voice only gets heard when there's an election.  There is no apparent social conscience because the Tory's respect wealth and it influences every legal decision made in the House of Commons. The consequence is the streets of Britain are now lined with more homelessness and poverty than they have ever been before. Policies implemented by the Tories are creating the worst an most unequal society ever, which will continue to get worse than it is now if the Tories continue to remain in power. Tax avoidance and non payment is the game, as we all witness the largest multi-corporate companies making their money and not paying tax because the find a way to offset it against some other expenditure.

BREXIT has been a massive spanner thrown into the political works of government. And unfortunately it has become a contributing factor in the decision which are being made by MPs. Yet it was not necessary to have an election to cement BREXIT, for the EU does not care what the majority levels are of any government. They are only concerned with screwing the UK over as hard as they can. Rightly Tim Farron leader of the Liberal Democrats has highlighted how crazy the notion of BREXIT was, we all know Cameron's decision to bring about the referendum was to shut up his own Tory MPs and to give him a get out of jail card, for he was tired of government. Perhaps it must of been taking a toll on him telling all the lies he has.  BREXIT like the current pending election was for one thing, for the benefit of the Tories.  It should also be noted Tim Farron didn't want to remain in the EU but he could see the impact of being taken out of the EU was far worse than breaking free. It is sad to see how easily the electorate has been split by an issue which is likely to be based more on immigration that actually anything else. For immigrants are seen as the easy scape goat of blame rather than the party in power.

The first past the post system of of politics does not work. It would only be through some kind of proportional representation true political awareness and issues could come forward. But it's not going to happen. So to vote is to vote tactically, vote for that candidate who is more likely to be a stronger opposition to the Tories just to ensure the Tories are out of office than to split the votes into smaller segments which will ultimately no be represented at all.