Soldato
- Brexit done by January 31st, 2020 - too Vague but if that mean the Withdrawal Bill is put into the statue books then - YES
- Complete EU withdrawal by the end of 2020 - YES
- 40 new hospitals - YES
- 50,000 new nurses - NO
- Reintroduce maintenance grants of between £5,000 and £8,000 a year for nursing students - YES
- 20,000 new police officers - NO
- No income tax, VAT or National Insurance rises - YES (assuming nothing drastic happens to the worlds economy)
- The state pension will be increased by CPI measure of inflation, wage growth or 2.5% each year - whichever is the highest - YES
- Introduce a points-based immigration system - YES
- Full gigabit broadband by the end of their term. - NO
- Take back control of our waters (fishing) - NO
- End automatic early release from prison - YES
Opposition claims if the Conservatives won a majority (were these warranted, or scare mongering?):
- The NHS will be sold off to Trump. - NO
- The Country will suffer a hard Brexit at the end of 2020 - That's a matter of opinion
- The Tory manifesto has surreptitiously included a dangerous mandate for constitutional change - YES (potentially)
The changes to the immigration system is going to make it hard to recruit all those extra nurses in 5 years. From what I've read and heard a lot that 50k will be by trying to reduce the rate of attrition within the NHS.
Full gigabit broadband? Must have been at the back of the manifesto because there wasn't much coverage about it. Fantasy world if you think everyone in the country will be able to access full gigabit internet, there's still a number of people today who only have 1mb ADSL2+ let alone modern fibre.
Fisheries, I've said no as I think there's a good chance Boris will use it as leverage to get a better deal in our post Brexit relationship with the EU.
The rest should be fairly easy to achieve, on the whole the Conservative manifesto was safe and not practically exciting.
The opposition ones - The NHS sell off is a load of codswallop invented by some lefty looney trying to create a fantasy scare story out of thin air. Why would we pay more for drugs on purpose post Brexit? Makes zero sense.
With Brexit high on the agenda and SNP conquering all North of the wall there's good change of another referendum in Scotland which could split the UK.
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