Hunt’s massive fail with ‘euthanasia’ tweet aimed at pensioner vote
Yes, his team really did let him tweet that One of the big political lessons of the past few years is that Tories just can’t do social media – and […]
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Video: May admits on live TV that she’s going to deepen the NHS crisis
Theresa May appeared on the BBC’s Marr show on Sunday to talk about NHS funding and Brexit – claiming that her pledge of £20 billion in additional NHS cash was […]
Video: #DementiaTax ad blows Tories out of water (satire but not really) #GE17
A fantastic new video takes truth in advertising to a new level – in a way that the Tory party, which has been desperately hoping we’d all forget, definitely won’t […]
#WrongAndFeeble: even May’s #DementiaTax climbdown is a #shambles #GE17
News has just broken that Theresa May has screeched into an embarrassing, hand-brake U-turn over her ‘dementia tax’ plans to penalise older people who need care by making them pay […]
8 MILLION women ‘not certain to vote’ Register by 23.59 #GE17 #HaveYourSay
According to The Fawcett Society, as many as eight million women are not certain whether they’ll vote in the upcoming General Election. EIGHT million. Let’s put that into context – […]
Tory #DementiaTax explained – please read and share #GE17
The Tories are banking on the complexity of their plans to hammer elderly people to prevent pensioners from understanding and switching their support to the Labour party. The Bow Group […]
Tories add a PS (FU) to their #stupidestsuicidenote #Torymanifesto
As the SKWAWKBOX showed last night, leaks of the Tory manifesto for the General Election show it represents what may be the ‘stupidest suicide note in history’, with measures that […]
Hate to say I told you so (again): Hunt’s age-based NHS assault starts
Some months ago, I predicted a series of cuts based on statements by Lansley and a series of articles published by the Telegraph. The next day, Lansley announced the very […]
CQC, BBC, Telegraph, the elderly and Hunt’s new NHS attack
I’ve written often about the established pattern under this government whereby media criticism of the NHS is used to try to pave the way for attacks on the NHS. It’s […]
Telegraph at it again: watch out for next phase of NHS attack
The Telegraph is at it again. I’m just watching the review of tomorrow’s papers on Sky News (I know, but it’s the only news channel in this hotel!) and tomorrow’s […]