"May 24 (Reuters) - Britain's Communities Minister #MichaelGove said on Friday he will step down as a member of parliament ahead of the July 4 general election."
“Putting up trade barriers with your neighbours can make you richer, said the Brexiters. You can simultaneously cut taxes and increase spending, and pay no price, said Truss. Rwanda is a safe country, said Rishi Sunak.”
“The 4th of July is a day of reckoning for the chaos and calamity the Conservatives have brought and for the harm they have done. On election day, the Tories don’t deserve merely to lose. They deserve to be punished.”
And Labour deserves to be punished for being Tories By Another Name. At least in Scotland, we have an alternative to vote for… if some people wouldn’t be so bloody feart.
Signed up for canvassing training - branching out after avoiding it before in favour of doing election telling and count agent stuff which is less terrifying to me (tho the first gets you yelled at by people who don't understand how elections work, and the second means one very long/exhausting night). Can recommend getting involved as it slightly reduces the feeling of 'could I have done more'.
@amberfirefly seriously thinking of canvassing for @ScottishGreens after literally thirty five years of canvassing for #SNP (and last five years of not canvassing at all).
I'm not saying the Greens are wonderful, they're not. I'm not saying I think they can win. However!
We do need to get rid of the #Tories, we do need #ScottishIndependence, but we also need to reverse the SNP's steady drift to the right, or we won't get either.
@amberfirefly@ScottishGreens it's complicated. Essentially, the #SNP have far and away the best chance of evicting the #Tories here. The @ScottishGreens are likely to come fourth. But, in the midst of a #ClimateEmergency, the SNP have just announced that their primary policy objective is economic growth, and additionally, they've just elected a very socially conservative deputy leader, whom I cannot support.
She's competent, but that only makes her more dangerous.
There are voters out there switching from #Tories to Green Party…we’ve seen that happen at a county level in Norfolk.
#Sunak has taken his rural, nature loving older core vote for granted and they are disgusted at the state of our rivers and fearful of what may come for their children with #ClimateBreakdown.
The writing is on the wall for Tories and they won’t vote Labour.
Austerity, Brexit, Covid Lockdown Parties, PPE Scandal, Raw Sewage in UK Waterways & Coastal Areas, Economic Crash, Record Inflation, Record Interest Rates, Cost of Living Crisis, Pensions Decimated, Mortgage Rises, NHS in Crisis, Schools Crumbling, Housing Crisis...
Austerity, Brexit, Covid Lockdown Parties, PPE Scandal, Raw Sewage in UK Waterways & Coastal Areas, Economic Crash, Record Inflation, Record Interest Rates, Cost of Living Crisis, Pensions Decimated, Mortgage Rises, NHS in Crisis, Schools Crumbling, Housing Crisis, Scandals, Cover ups.
Unless you've got a crystal ball, how do you know this will happen?
After 14 years of #Tory failure, sleaze & economic mismanagement that brought us #Brexit a #CostOfLivingCrisis & record #Inflation, are you seriously saying a new #Labour government can reverse this damage on day one, but won't because #Starmer is no different to the #Tories? Really?
The best way to look at #GE2024 is; we're you better off in 2010 under #Labour, or are you better off in the Tory's 2024?