Ask yourself this before you vote: can anyone truly say the Tories have made Britain better? | George Monbiot

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : I could go on, discussing the truncation of civil liberties; the deliberate stoking of division through culture wars; the gross mishandling of the pandemic, causing tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths; Partygate and the destruction of public trust; the assault on public protections, leading, among other horrors, to the Grenfell Tower disaster; the administrative collapse across dozens of public services, exemplified by the current Passport Office fiasco and the transformation of our rivers into open sewers; a 14% increase in crime this year caused largely by fraud, against which there is now almost no recourse; the stalling of carbon cuts; oh, and the small matter of Brexit.
49% : There's the same-sex marriage legislation passed during David Cameron's first term, though it was developed by the Liberal Democrats and opposed by a majority of Conservative MPs.
49% : There's a higher threshold for paying income tax, a higher minimum wage (though it falls short of a genuine living wage), shared parental leave and automatic pensions enrolment.

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