Thursday 7 May 2015

Here are 62 reasons for not voting for the Tories



  • 1.Cutting front line Social Workers despite the demand increasing by service users
  • 2.Tuition fees trebled.
  • 3.Ema scrapped.
  • 4.Zero hours contracts.
  • 5.More people in part time employment.
  • 6.Suicide rates up.
  • 7.Benefit sanctions targets meaning 90,000 people a month are sanctioned for little or no reason.
  • 8.A and E in crisis.
  • 9.Longer waiting times to see GP.
  • 10.Selling off Royal Mail.
  • 11.Stagnant wages.
  • 12.Closures to police stations.
  • 13.Closures of fire stations.
  • 14.Increasing the national debt.
  • 15.Creating more new debt in 5 years than labour created in 13.
  • 16.Increasing vat.
  • 17.Scrapping meaningful statistics collection.
  • 18.Cutting university funding by 80%
  • 19.Cuts in public transport grants, 20% rise in rail and bus fares.
  • 20.Making councils in poorer areas cut more than councils in wealthier areas.
  • 21.Housing benefit cuts as rents continue to rise.
  • 22.Reneging on curbing bankers bonuses.
  • 23.Loss of 'AAA' credit rating.
  • 24.Double dip recession.
  • 25.Treasury lieing about what income tax is spent on.
  • 26.Universal credit mess, this has cost the taxpayer over 200million.
  • 27. The unlawful Workfare program.
  • 28.The health and social care act, a top down reorganisation of the NHS.
  • 29.Trying to scrap our human rights.
  • 30.Atos.
  • 31.Bedroom tax.
  • 32.Cuts to social care.
  • 33.Cuts to library services.
  • 34.Cuts to the disabled students allowance.
  • 35.Cuts to local council disability transport.
  • 36.Changing DLA to PIP meaning thousands of people are no longer eligible. (Disabled people make up 10% of the population but face 25% of cuts).
  • 37.The IFS says the average household has lost £1,127 a year thanks to coalition policies.
  • 38.The IFS also say that the biggest group to loose out are single jobless parents.
  • 39.Child poverty increased by 13% (after labour cut it by 50%).
  • 40.Removing legal aid.
  • 41.Privatising NHS direct.
  • 42.Tax avoidance up by 13% according to HMRC.
  • 43.Homelessness up 26% (despite labour cutting it by 41%).
  • 44.Closure of sure start centres.
  • 45.30% increase in childcare costs.
  • 46.Fracking
  • 47.Privatisation of the East cost mainline.
  • 48.Stamp price hike by 50% since 2010.
  • 49.Closure of 410+ schools.
  • 50.Cutting the funding for connexions careers advice service for young people.
  • 51.Overcrowded classrooms have trebled since 2010.
  • 52.The Tories have presided over the closing or downgrading of 33% of NHS walk in centres, 66% of A and E/maternity wards and 16% of A and E's.
  • 53.477 fewer GPs surgeries.
  • 54. Mental health provision has been cut by 25%.
  • 55.Closure of prisons
  • 56.The number of millionaire bankers has climbed by 11%
  • 57. 1,368 people died after work capability assessments wrongly found them fit to work.
  • 58.Withdrawal of the subsidy for remploy that saw the closure of 34 remploy factories (that employed disabled people).
  • 59.Water charges up 20% since 2010.
  • 60.Raising the retirement age.
  • 61.David Cameron decided to "cut the green crap" from policies.
  • 62.The uk statistics authority has repeatedly warned the Tories to stop lying over immigration, unemployment, benefits cap, debt and NHS spending.

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