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[–] 9point6 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm sure everyone here already knows, but basically everything has gotten worse over the past 14 years of Tories

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/02/conservatives-economic-record-budget-deficit-gdp-tax-tory-budget

Vote how you like, but just remember the track record if you even remotely are entertaining a vote that would potentially benefit the Tories.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Yes but you see the war in Ukrainian happened, and Covid happened and that's responsible for all of the bad things, including the bad things that predated them. Basically the takeaway is it's everybody else's fault. Especially Labour.

That's a sneak peek of the Tory election campaign

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That was pretty much his speech this afternoon, too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Maybe by the election somebody will have told him about this amazing piece of technology, that's only just being invented and that's why he doesn't know about it, called an umbrella.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Your forgot Corbyn.