Thread by @ImIncorrigible

Brextremists constantly bang on about how impt it is for the UK to Leave the EU because it was a Tory party manifesto promise. What is true for Brexit, must presumably be true for other Tory manifesto promises, so let's see how they've done.
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@LBC Page 15 of the Tory manifesto promised "effective" regulation of industry and markets and that govt would save £9bn through cutting two regulations for every new one created.

#Fail

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@LBC Page 17 of the Tory manifesto promised to regulate tax advisory firms to reduce extreme tax avoidance, increase transparency and reduce "misuse of trusts".

#Fail

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@LBC Page 17 also promised to give new powers to the Pensions Regulator to protect pensions and pensioners from "unscrupulous" business owners.

#Fail

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@LBC The Tories also promised to change the law in order to ensure workers' views are expressed at board level in companies and to make a workers' director a legal requirement.

#Fail

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@LBC Page 34: The Tory party "will uphold the essential principle that Northern Ireland's future should only ever be determined by democracy and consent"

#Inconclusive

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@LBC Page 36: The Tory manifesto promised that the terms of the future economic relationship with the EU should be negotiated "alongside" the #WithdrawalAgreement

#EpicFail

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@LBC Page 42: The Tories promised to legislate for a National Insurance holiday for firms who hire British military veterans.

#Fail

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@LBC Page 70: We will deliver "a million homes by the end of 2020, and we will deliver half a million more by the end of 2022".

#EpicFail (especially as we now have record homelessness and record low social housing).

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@LBC I could go on. Tories promised many things in their 2017 manifesto & aren't delivering on a single one as far as I can tell. Why should Brexit be seen as the only manifesto promise that *must* be kept?

#StrongAndStable

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