Current Affairs UK General Election July

[Yarrgh]

I don't think Reform will get anywhere near that in the end, 10% max I'd say

I hope that turns out to be a vast overestimate too.

 

[Yarrgh]

From the Guardian:

Here are the key election pledges the Green party announced today as it launched its manifesto:

• Invest £50bn in health and social care to “defend and restore the NHS”, including a guarantee for an NHS dentist for everyone.
• Overhaul tax system “to make it fairer” – a tax on the top 1% of people.
• Invest £30bn over five years in insulating homes.
• Create 150,000 new social homes every year by the end of the next parliament.
• End the Right to Buy scheme.
• Stop all new fossil fuel projects in the UK and cancel those that have been recently licensed like Rosebank.
• To bring water companies, railways and the ‘big five’ retail energy companies into public ownership.
• Scrap tuition fees.
• A new Clean Air Act to “safeguard children’s health”.
• Invest in public transport and support to switch to electric vehicles.
• Make personal social care free at the point of use, like the NHS.
• Bring mental health treatment up to the same standard as physical health.
• Restore “ailing” high streets, both rural and urban, by investing in small and medium-sized businesses.

All sounds fair enough to me.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Thoughts and prayers to my local knob.

Rishi Sunak aide placed bet on election date days before announcement

Exclusive: £100 bet placed in Montgomeryshire – the constituency of Craig Williams – over July poll

www.theguardian.com

 

[Walken]

Genuinely waiting for sunak to accidentally punch a baby like ferrell in the campaign

 

[Wizard]

Ed keeps on going. I’m getting to the stage where I couldn’t care what his policies are or how good he would be as a PM. Give him the job and let’s just see what happens

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

 

[NeilMorepies]

They say it like it would be a bad thing.

 

[Moomin]

Ed keeps on going. I’m getting to the stage where I couldn’t care what his policies are or how good he would be as a PM. Give him the job and let’s just see what happens

I'm warming to him.

 

[summerisle]

I'm warming to him.

I doubt the bankrupt and dead postmasters are.

 

[Rita_Poon]

So far as party political broadcasts go, this one by reform must have cost every penny of two quid.

"Britain is Broken.
Britain needs Reform"

On screen, 4 minutes solid, no noise. It's actually pleasantly quiet.

 

[Rita_Poon]

QT - asked where the £12billion of welfare cuts is singled out in minute two the tory has coughed up 'fraud'.

 

[efcste97]

 

[summerisle]

Racists multiplying ; the legacy of the decaying Conservative party.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Still massively worrying that so many are backing either Tory or Reform.

 

[Eggs]

….statistics released this morning show NHS waiting lists have risen again.