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Labour, Lib Dems and Greens have a lot in common - why not work together?

Here's a challenge! Have a look at the following tweets and guess which political party tweeted them: 1. In breaking their manifesto  promise and failing to protect the state pension, the Conservatives have plunged older people into a cost of living crisis.  This out of touch Government has left poorer pensioners out in the cold. 2. Youth services cut, Crime Rising, The Tories are failing our communities. 3. NEW: Inflation at 5.5%. Food. Petrol. Energy. We're all feeling it. This isn't just a global problem. The Tories have failed to get a grip and working people are paying the price. 4. 1 million adults in the UK went an entire day without food last month. 4.7 million experienced food insecurity. This is the reality of the cost of living crisis. 5. Climate action can bring other benefits for fuel poverty, health and warmer homes. There's nowhere better to focus that action than on social housing. Answer: Lib Dem, Labour, Labour, Green, Green I don't think anyone wh...

The Tories are in meltdown - hope we can get our acts together in Hexham Constituency

No blogging for a while! It's been a full time job to keep up with what's going on. Even the Conservative Party are now waking up to the reality of what they have become under Boris Johnson's leadership. A steady drip of Tory MPs are writing letters of "no-confidence" in the Prime Minister. To add insult to many injuries, he sank to a new low by trying to smear Keir Starmer with the pathetic "Jimmy Saville" reference. Jimmy Saville was of course a massive supporter of the Conservative Party, but that is neither here nor there. This seems to have led directly to mass resignations of the PMs staff which is laughably being characterised as the "clear out" that Johnson has promised. What a shambles. All at a time when the cost of living crisis is in full swing, post-Brexit realities are hitting and there is a massive crisis in Ukraine. This is all without mentioning COVID, worsening inequality, empty promises of "levelling up", food bank ...