The common myth is that the Tories are economically competent. This myth has been propelled for years. It is absolute and utter rubbish. Please watch and share this video from Novara Media. Bastani, speaking in Oct 16, nails it here.
So, when you hear May or Hammond saying about our economy growing, it is. For a VERY select few. Not the rest of us. It is literally getting worse for the rest of us. More evidence here:
https://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2016/07/uk-real-wages-decline-10-severe-oecd-equal-greece/
https://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/gdp-per-capita
More evidence? The Tories have borrowed more money since 2010 WHILE implementing austerity, than every Labour government in history. Combined. The have missed everyone of their own self-imposed fiscal targets. They have cut the money for the disabled, poor, vulnerable, unemployed and then reduced the tax rate of the highest earners and corporate business world. They spend less per head on healthcare than America and all bar 3 of our European neighbours, with this amount to go DOWN year on year as demand increases. Food bank usage has gone from 41,000-odd to 1.3 million-odd. Wages have, for the first time ever for this prolonged a period, stagnated and receded over the last few years. Record child poverty. Record homelessness. Record OAP poverty related to austerity. Record general poverty. They are being investigated by the UN re their treatment of disabled people. Austerity is absolutely a completely ideological and political CHOICE, NOT a necessity. The UK, economically, is now the most unequal in Europe.
So, please share this far and wide and let’s stop this outright lie that the Tories are good with economics. Oh, and for those who may blame Labour for the financial crash, much as I was not the biggest fan of Blair/Brown, it wasn’t their fault: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/09/jeremy-corbyn-labour-overspending-did-not-cause-financial-crisis
Even if you still believe Labour was to blame, remember that the Tories backed every penny of Labour’s economic plans at the time.
Adam Samuels
