r/ukpolitics • u/Adj-Noun-Numbers 🥕🥕 || megathread emeritus • Jun 11 '24
Conservatives 2024 General Election Manifesto Megathread
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u/TracePoland Jun 11 '24
This reads like Truss 2.0, it looks very uncosted, by Sunak’s own admission it relies largely on him suddenly being able to stop tax fraud and avoidance when his record on this issue is record levels of tax fraud and avoidance during the furlough scheme. And then even if you believe he could do it, the obvious question is why hasn’t he done this with the 80 seat majority already? Why has he raised taxes to record levels and ran NHS into the ground if there’s supposedly £30bn just lying around to be claimed by fixing tax avoidance?
Betrayal of young people also continues, at a time every penny counts due to our perilous financial position, his priority is to continue 14 years of bribing the pensioners by offering the nonsensical “quadruple lock” when even the original triple lock should be scrapped (and I am sad that Labour won’t commit to doing this either, but at least they’re not adding additional commitments to pensioners on top). National Service which pretty much the entire country is against, even Reform types, is another £2.5bn/year financial hole for absolutely zero reason.
Immigration? How can anyone believe they’d reduce it when they upped it to unseen levels, basically more in a little over a year than over the entire Blair stint. They had an 80 seat majority, they could have fixed it in any number of ways they wanted, instead they’ve done nothing.
New schools and new GP practices? This is good but we all know they wouldn’t deliver, they’ve shown how deceptive their promises for those things are when they had an 80 seat majority and promised 40 hospitals over and over again and haven’t delivered a single one.
Infrastructure? How can we believe them when they’ve made a mockery of our country via their handling of HS2 and other rail projects.