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7 Reasons the Conservatives will totally ruin everything that is good and decent about Britain:

1. They have an obsession with privatisation and left to their own devices will sell off as many public services as possible to private companies. That means all your schools, hospitals, fire stations, prisons, basically anything they can find which can make a profit will be sold.

2. As a complement to point 1, the base of their entire ‘new right’ ideology is an unswerving loyalty to the free market. They only care about the richest 5% of society and will happily screw the other 95% in order to make that 5% happy. Or to put it more simply ‘take from the poor and give to the rich’.

3. Most of their party is still comprised of old borderline racists and homophobes. Living proof of this are Chris Grayling, Philip Lardner, Philippa Stroud and many others. The tory party introduced Section 28 when they were in power and voted against equal rights for women in the European Parliament. Even the founder of the Tory LGBT rights campaign stepped down after realising that the tories were still largely comprised of homophobic old nutters.

4. They supported both the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan with great enthusiasm. It’s nothing more than brazen imperialism disguised as ‘humanitarian intervention’. The patriotic bollocks about ‘supporting our troops’ is nothing less than a shameful disgrace and a lie used to keep them dying while enforcing the oppression of the people of Afghanistan. And they want to renew Britain’s defunct nuclear weapons system which will cost us £76 billion over the next 25 years if it’s approved (and that figure is only the lowest estimate).

5. They want to water down the Human Rights Act 1998 and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. I wouldn’t be so against this in theory if it weren’t for their obvious contempt for fundamental human rights.

6. Their party simply refuses to take climate change seriously. Oh they say that they care, but really the only solutions they propose are market-oriented (see point 2) greenwash. They refuse to dent the profits of the large oil companies, so they will just carry on allowing them to exploit the planet without making so much as a whimper while the ecosystem burns.

7. According to them ‘it’s not racist to talk about immigration’. Which it isn’t until you start reeling out shitty tabloid lies about ‘polish people getting all the benefits while hard-working white middle class families get nothing’. It all sounds pretty fucking racist to me, including their paranoid ramblings about how Britain needs to ‘retain it’s identity’.

I’m too lazy to get all the links and sources for that, go look it up yourself. And if it’s not too late, please just don’t vote Conservative. Also have you seen the Sun front page today? I know it’ll come in handy later on when I have to analyse it in Media Studies.