Will the last Tory to leave switch the life support off?!

"Former home secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform UK."

#UKpol #ToryFailure
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/26/former-home-secretary-suella-braverman-defects-to-reform-uk?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Former home secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform UK

Braverman becomes third sitting Conservative MP to join Nigel Farage’s party in little more than a week

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Britain: A country that cannot say those Three Little Words

‘That impulse is to hunt vigorously for any way not to say those three little words; – ‘ “I was wrong.” ‘

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Blaming Labour for Their Own Failures
The Tories blamed Labour for problems they had 14 years to fix. NHS inefficiencies? Tory cuts. Rising welfare spending? Their own low-wage economy. Economic collapse? Liz Truss tanked it in 44 days. #ToryFailure #UKPolitics #EconomicCrisis

This piece deserves to be read and shared and read and shared and read and shared ad nauseam….. #ToryFailure #tories #ToryIncompetence#ToryIncompetence #torylessons

https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/p/kemi-badenoch-and-the-corruption?r=17jdaa&utm_medium=ios

Kemi Badenoch and the corruption of failure

The decadence of right-wing cynicism

Writing from London
Rather than make National Service compulsory for teenagers in order to 'socialise' them, wouldn't it make more sense to protect them from the market forces which create the problem in the first place. Or is that too anti-capitalist? #dogwhistling #ToryFailure #ToryShit
Another pandemic is ‘absolutely inevitable’, says Patrick Vallance

Former UK chief scientific adviser warns ‘we are not ready yet’ and urges next government to prepare

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Social acceptance of food banks is a mark of Tory failure

Letter: We should be discussing why food bank reliance is becoming normalised in a prosperous and civilised society likes ours, says Jim Whitfield

The Guardian

'#Brexit #BorderChecks will cost #UK firms £470m a year, says watchdog

‘More than three years after end of transition period, it is still not clear when full controls will be in place’'
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/20/britain-brexit-border-checks-eu-cost-uk-firms-470m-a-year-says-watchdog
#ToryPoliciesInAction #BrexitBonus #OvenReadyDeal #ToryFailure

Post-Brexit border checks forecast to cost UK £4.7bn, says NAO

Watchdog says says repeated delays have caused unnecessary costs and strategy lacks a ‘clear timetable’

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'Ministers are clawing back more than £250m from #UnpaidCarers over #BenefitInfringements that occurred largely as a result of #GovernmentFailures'

'...a successions of ministers have failed to fix the problem, leaving tens of thousands of unpaid carers – who save the UK £160bn a year and help prop up #NHS and #SocialCare services – in financial hardship while they repay the debt'
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/ministers-clawing-back-251m-carers-dwp-allowance-failures
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryFailure #ToryInhumanity #Carers

Ministers clawing back £251m from carers hit by DWP’s allowance failures

‘Strikingly large’ sum being recouped from people who fell foul of system that did not flag overpayments

The Guardian

'No progress made on half of #UK government’s #LevellingUp targets

Guardian analysis shows situation has deteriorated in three areas that #MichaelGove promised to improve'
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/01/government-levelling-up-targets-progress-politics-conservatives-labour
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryFailure

No progress made on half of UK government’s levelling-up targets

Guardian analysis shows situation has deteriorated in three areas that Michael Gove promised to improve

The Guardian