He's a massive Tory, and i challenged him to come up with some positive things that the Tory's have done during their tenure, I was a little surprised that he managed it, here it is, presented in a similar way to how the tweet above did Labour's.
"Health -
Biggest funding increase in history for the NHS and enshrining that increase in law. - Not by % increase - as amount go up so will the increase in cash terms
Vaccine roll out fastest in the world. Only because we started first - Europe soon caught up and overtook us.
Ended PFI contracts in NHS. Agreed but hospitals were being built, now they've all but stopped
Poverty -
introduced national living wage. - Minimum wage was in place - just a different name
Cut stamp duty for first time buyers to lowest ever - it used to 0% upto 60k when I was much younger so not lowest ever
Lifetime skills guarantee ?
Towns fund - Borderline corrupt way of distributing funds
Pension triple lock - ....and broke it when it suited
Employment -
7.9% unemployment in 2010, current unemployment is at a record low of 3.8%. - Agreed
Free lifetime skills training to help people remain in employment. ?
Education -
introduction of the pupil premium. - Lib dem policy I thought - School funding is still all over the shop
Taken education spending to the highest percentage of GDP on record. - ?
Social/cultural -
Same sex marriage Agreed
Ending of ban on gay people giving blood
Posthumous pardon of all gay people convicted of offences relating to gay laws.
Protection of freedoms bill
Ended preferential treatment of low skilled European migrants, and increased skilled labour from the rest of the world - Laughable that stopping workers legitimately coming in from the EU is now lauded because they can't come in.
Monument protection act - Brilliant
First country in world to commit to net zero - Lets see if they get there
Security -
biggest police funding increase in a decade. There decade of power?
Added 20000 extra police - May cut 20000 but hey ho
Haven’t invaded a single country. - Well done
Pulled out of Iraq and Afghanistan. - Afghanistan pull out was a triumph!
Biggest per capita support to Ukraine.
Economy -
Most job vacancies on record Not a good stat as it means that jobs aren't being done
Highest employment on record - Highest on payroll or overall or per % of population?
Introduction of the peoples pension - Just another name - we had stakeholder pensions first which I believe Labour bought in.
40% increase in export volumes - They are declining now!
Averaged 2.26% inflation since 2022 - Its rising now!
Reduced budget deficit - Only as a % of GDP from an artificially high figure due to the Global Financial crisis. If you look at borrowing from 1997 to 2010 compared to 2010 to 2022 this lot have grown it by record amounts.
Up to country with second highest number of trade deals in world behind Switzerland"
Some of those are easily argued (as I'm sure the Labour ones are too) and to be fair to him he did say the negative list would be twice as long.
Just thought it was an interesting topic, as I know we've spoken on here about how difficult it is to think of ANYTHING positive the Tories have done.
