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This is the clincher. If you know of people who are wavering about voting Tory, show them this. The complete absence of empathy is chilling. Not only failing to take responsibility, but failing even to take the most fleeting interest.
Once you've got them engaged, talk them through this...
Finally, finish off the hat-trick with this overview of Boris Johnson's despicable past (they've already witnessed his despicable present!)
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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How Boris Johnson made Jeremy Corbyn much less electable. (A short thread...)
Boris Johnson has been Prime Minister for 140 days. During that time, he has made Jeremy Corbyn significantly less electable.

Why? Much is made of the UK not having a presidential system.
That's as may be, but it certainly has a system that relies very strongly on precedent.

But in the last 140 days, we have seen time after time that a rogue Prime Minister can ride roughshod over Parliament by completely ignoring precedent-but-not-law.
In other words, by refusing to follow centuries of precedent, Boris Johnson has demonstrated that being UK Prime Minister accords the office-holder more power than perhaps people had realised before.

Hence the failure to hold him to account even though Parliament voted to do so.
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Since 2001, successive Labour & Tory governments have pumped up the UK national debt from under £300 billion to over £1.8 trillion. During the same period, £600 billion of taxpayer money was wasted on servicing the debt. Borrowing is cheap - but not free!
thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/art…
The annual cost of servicing the UK national debt is now running at £30 billion, i.e. 3x what our EU membership costs. We have spent years in trench warfare over our participation in the EU with barely a squeak about the mountain of debt hovering over us.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Ki…
The UK national debt is continuing to mount every year because the Government runs deficits, i.e. it spends more than it takes in in taxes and borrows to cover the shortfall.

In other words, the cost of servicing the national debt is also rising inexorably.
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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No denying that Labour is in a worse position than GE2017.

That makes tactical voting even more vital. That doesn't mean tactical voting *for Labour*, but tactical voting for the most effective party in every seat.
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