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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

I didn’t appreciate frequency had anything to do with it, Hugh. If it was right once, it will be right again, surely?

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How so? He has achieved Brexit, he had to deal with an unexpected pandemic that nearly killed him and the bulk of the manifesto is still ‘to do’, delayed by Covid.

Clearly, he’s getting on with the health and social care issues now and starting off the levelling up agenda. To be fair, he’s broken his tax pledge, but I’m sure most right thinking people will acknowledge that Covid is responsible for that.

Which promises were you referring to that have been ‘broken’?

From https://assets-global.website-files....0Manifesto.pdf

• Extra funding for the NHS, with 50,000 more nurses and 50 million
more GP surgery appointments a year. [see #1 below]
• 20,000 more police and tougher sentencing for criminals. [see #2 below]
• An Australian-style points-based system to control immigration.[see #3 below]
• Millions more invested every week in science, schools, apprenticeships and infrastructure while controlling debt. [see #4 below]
• Reaching Net Zero by 2050 with investment in clean energy solutions
and green infrastructure to reduce carbon emissions and pollution. [see #5 below]
• We will not raise the rate of income tax, VAT or National Insurance. [see #6 below]

#1 Covid is no excuse; where are the GP appointments?

#2 The extra police commitment is merely a replacement for the austerity loss. Maybe semantically true but misleading in spirit.

#3 "Australian style PBS" is very loosely worded. Without going into it, I judge the UL system to be reasonable though inherently different. The big FAIL, is the cross-channel stuff; I realise it's not easy to stop but how these immigrants are dealt with is a scandal (as in £4.7 million/day spent on them when we have people sleeping on the streets).

#4 They're keeping very quiet about that; rolling infrastructure in with schools keeps it vague and vague it remains. Millions every week? Where's that audited?

#5 The Net Zero promise doesn't mention beggaring the nation with such as heat pumps that are likely unsuitable for a cold winter and quite unaffordable; ignoring our ability to be gas self-sufficient yet importing expensive gas from overseas. Sheer stupidity.

#6 Ha Ha. Lying toad.

The same document commits to preserving the triple lock for pensions; inflation is such that this commitment needed to be kept.

Then there's levelling up. What the hell does that mean in concrete terms? By now announcements should have been made about new factories, moving ministries, equalising education attainment and so on.

Backing entrepreneurs & innovation (p36 of the link) - he crows about reducing corporation tax from 27% to 19% but has now increased it to 25%. That does not increase national wealth, it stifles it.

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I hope you don't plead the need for austerity following the Covid borrowing. We have 50 or 60 years to pay that back through economic growth, which must be the focus. Strutting the ecoloon stage is the last thing that's needed.

Boris is a busted flush as are most of his nodding heads.