CAMPAIGN IS A FARCE

SO Mrs May won’t take part in a live TV debate.

Well, maybe on reflection there’s no surprise there. I mean, even Mrs May’s so called ‘meet the people’ drive is something of a farce.

Reports say that she recently met workers in Leeds. In fact what happened was that Mrs May did indeed have a meeting in a factory, oh yes, but it was when the workers had gone home and in front of invited Tory supporters. Can you believe it? So let’s take a look at why Mrs May is so reluctant to meet real people. UK growth is slowing dramatically, GDP increase of just 0.3% is way below expectations and expected to get much worse. UK debt is approaching alarming levels.

The housing crisis rolls on, this government incapable (or unwilling) to tackle it properly. There is a massive increase in the use of food banks throughout the north west, this is according to the Trussell Trust.

Devaluation of the pound is leading to higher prices.

The Tory cuts in public services can be seen by all, massive cuts for education, recent meetings of teachers have suggested that if the present policies continue schools could become insolvent in two years.

The NHS, local government, our defence forces and the rest.

Oh yes, the Tories will say that they are putting more money in, but of course that completely ignores the fact that demand and costs have far outstripped any spending.

Just look at the roads around your area. Oh yes, and don’t let the Tories come with that old excuse ‘well, it’s your local authority’.

Put the blame where it really belongs, at the door of this Tory government.

Then of course there is Brexit, a Tory disaster if there ever was one.

The current Prime Minister has taken the views of a right wing nationalist xenophobic clique and has endorsed it with a vengeance. No compromise here. Out of the single market, out of the customs union, adopting the most appalling abrasive attitude to our friends and partners in the EU.

These attitudes result in Liam Fox, Trade Minister, telling Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines leader, that the UK shares and endorses his values. Duterte has an appalling record on human rights.

Of course such behaviour is just a symptom of the Tory mad drive to Brexit, supporting any country regardless of its record on human rights, so long as there may be a chance that they’ll spend a few bob. A disgraceful policy. And what of the Labour Party.

Their performance in opposition has been appalling.

The campaign that Mr Corbyn led during the EU referendum was lukewarm at best, at worst maybe even hostile to our European friends.

Since the referendum, Labour have acquiesced in the nationalist rhetoric and backed the Tories over Article 50 and the Tories’ disgraceful attempt to exclude Parliament and the people from any say in any deal (or no deal) that the Tory right might come up with during the Brexit negotiations.

Disgraceful! Les Jones Liberal Democrat candidate for Haslingden and Hyndburn, 2017 general election