I don't agree with either of those... but in the grand scheme of things there are rather more important things to worry about
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I don't agree with either of those... but in the grand scheme of things there are rather more important things to worry about
Yet why even entertain such nonsensical considerations ...
The wheels really do see to be coming off the Tory train.
I'm not sure what your point is exactly? I'm not entertaining them - I disagree with them as already stated.
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"There are more important things at hand.. Such as the IRA"
I'm sorry, when a senior cabinet minister goes on live TV and says it is, a lot of the viewing public then believe it as clearly not everybody in the UK are going to read the whole manifesto are they?
Or are you saying we should ignore everything said in speeches and TV by every senior Tory MP?
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Yeah, who cares about some bloody Elephants and Rhinos going extinct, we've got to give some billionaires some tax breaks.
You already know full well that he was incorrect so trying to pretend it is Tory party policy would be rather disingenuous. No you shouldn't ignore everything but you're already well aware that this was a mistake by Boris and not policy.
a potential PM and Home Secretary supporting an armed struggle against the UK is rather more worrying and rather more important a consideration re: their suitability for office than whether they let some toffs go fox hunting IMO
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It's not much different to Diane Abbott getting her figures wrong is it? She got crap for almost a week about that.
Just highlights the massive rightwing media bias.
It wasn't directed at you. It was more in agreement that there are indeed higher priority concerns on people’s minds. As such why further sully the now dwindling lead by considering such emotive policies.
Clearly it isnt but its pretty poor when you go on TV and say it is. Point is, at the time of the interview it was stated as policy by Boris the fool.
Not sure what you are arguing over.
No way have I said it is Party Policy, I just said Boris said it is Party Policy.
of course... media bias
her mistake was rather more egregious and she was given a few attempts to correct it...
80% of it is just three newspaper, the Telegraph, DM and the Express.
Again I dont see your point? Boris went on TV and said it was Party Policy. I have said it isnt. If you have a problem go take it up with Boris.
negative stories about Labour.
Ill find the link later which shows negative and positive coverage split by paper for all parties but to keep you going, have a independent link from last year where it was 75%
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...resentation-we-cant-ignore-bias-a7144381.html
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annnd ....here's the U-Turn:
George Osborne, the former Conservative chancellor who now edits the Evening Standard, says the government will perform a U-turn over social care, and impose a cap on costs.
https://twitter.com/George_Osborne?...theresa-may-social-care-fallout-politics-live
from his twitter feed.
Is this really the strong negotiator that the UK wants for Brexit ?
George Osborne, the former Conservative chancellor who now edits the Evening Standard, says the government will perform a U-turn over social care, and impose a cap on costs.
https://twitter.com/George_Osborne?...theresa-may-social-care-fallout-politics-live
from his twitter feed.
Is this really the strong negotiator that the UK wants for Brexit ?
TIL Greebo is a more senior Tory politician than BoJo.
My point is it isn't party policy.. I stated "since when was that claim a Tory party policy?" -the correct answer is that is isn't... instead you made some statement that is was because Boris said so... that isn simply incorrect that is all.
If true; the train just crashed.
if they did it hardly changes the policy (depending on the cap) it just insures some rather richer people against some tail end risk - i.e. things like the tiny few cases whereby their care might cost hundreds of thousands and they have plenty in assets to potentially lose.
for most people residential care has an average of 50k - 90k and care at home will be even cheaper... You could impose say a cap of 100k and the vast majority of people would have care bills well within that cap anyway
I'm still finding it amusing that what could easily be a left wing policy is getting so much flack in part simply because it is being proposed by the Tories - the change you're highlighting would mostly just serve to protect a small portion of wealth middle class people... not that it would necessarily be a bad policy to have such a cap...protecting people on both ends of this could be fairly sensible
Well your question was in response to somebody posting about what Boris said. Yes it isnt but why are you just ignoring what the buffoon said?
I could see this coming a mile off after that one issue seems to have cut their lead from 20% to 10%.
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