Dear Claire,
So, it's the home straight now. They're all at it, burning enough hydrocarbons in their efforts to be in as many places in one day as possible.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies said: the electorate had been left “somewhat in the dark” about the details of all the parties’ spending plans but the Conservatives have more explaining to do, because they are aiming at much more ambitious cuts in public borrowing, an estimated £30billion.
Naturally, IDS refused to give any idea of where these cuts would be made, when he appeared on the debate yesterday chaired by Andrew Neill.
Let's take a look at the various lies that Cameron has peddled these last few weeks:
"Getting on top of debt"
- debt is up by £500bn
"Increased NHS spending yearly"
- 2010-12 NHS spending fell
"We're helping solve the Housing problem"
- Lowest number of homes since 1920 and Tories want to sell more off
"We have invested in education"
- Tories delivered largest education cuts since the 1950's
"Free schools outperform state schools"
- State schools outperform free schools
"We have boosted affordable housing"
- Affordable housing down 26%
"We created 2m good jobs"
28% of those jobs are zero-hours contracts
"We're succeeding tackling tax evasion"
Uncollected tax is up £3billion under the Tories
"We're unlocking NHS beds"
Actually, the Tories cut/axed 9,500+ beds
"I challenge NHS Wales' performance"
Cameron cut Wales funding by 7.5%
"We kept your taxes down"
Cameron put taxes up 14 times between 2010 and 2014
"Labour will hike your taxes £3,000"
IFS say no evidence that Labour will do this
"We cut taxes for the 3m poorest"
Actually, Tories hiked VAT for the 3million poorest
"We're the fastest growing economy"
The UK is not even in the top 10 fastest growing economies
"70 labour MPs have staff on zero-hours contracts"
No evidence. IPSA do not measure Zero-Hours staff.
Let's end today's letter with a few quotations. They all mean roughly the same, but they're all equally moving and relevant. As we read them, let's remember how this government has repeatedly targeted and demonised the poorest and most vulnerable in society.
"...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped. " ~ Last Speech of Hubert H. Humphrey
"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Ghandi
"Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members -- the last, the least, the littlest."
~ Cardinal Roger Mahony, In a 1998 letter, Creating a Culture of Life
If you can live with yourself for belonging to a party which has done so much to erode basic freedoms which we hitherto took for granted, a party which has caused tens of thousands of deaths with its benefit reforms, a party which exists to help the 1% at the expense of everyone else, then there is a fundamental part of your soul missing.
Kind regards
Polly
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