So that’s 93.

93 Uturns : Pledges reversed, policies cancelled, promises scrapped, since these Lying #Tories came into office.

Tories refuse to reveal billionaire donor dinners - a year after promising they would.

mirror.co.uk/news/politics/… Image
So that’s 94.

94 Uturns : Pledges reversed, policies cancelled, promises scrapped, since these Lying #Tories came into office.

#Tories ran in 2019 on a manifesto promise of not increasing taxes or NI.

Now they plan to do so, for Social Care. Image
So that’s 95.

95 U-turns: Pledges reversed, policies cancelled, promises scrapped, since these lying #Tories came into office.

Tories suspend Triple Lock on Pensions, denying rightful increases to the elderly. Image
So that’s 96.

96 U-turns: Pledges reversed, policies cancelled, promises scrapped, since these lying #Tories came into office.

January: "GB sticker on your car is just fine."

Now : "Oops. You need to replace it with a UK sticker or you might get refused entry to Europe." ImageImage
So that’s 97.

97 U-turns: Pledges reversed, policies cancelled, promises scrapped, since these lying #Tories came into office.

Review for Right to Work for Asylum Seekers:

Promised by Sajid Javid 2018, and Johnson 2019.

Priti 'Smug-Face' Patel's Home Office, 2021 : Cancelled. Image
So that’s 98.

98 U-turns: Pledges reversed, policies cancelled, promises scrapped, since these lying #Tories came into office.

Sunak, 2020: "We'll decentralise Civil Service in London by 22,000 to regions.

2021: Civil Service in London GROWS by 11% from ~92,000 to ~102,000. ImageImage
So that’s 99.

99 U-turns: Pledges reversed, policies cancelled, promises scrapped, since these lying #Tories came into office in December 2019.

Sarah Everard Inquiry :

Corrupt Johnson : "No."
Smug-Face Patel : "Er, okay, maybe. Okay, yes." ImageImage
So that’s 100.

100 U-turns: Pledges reversed, policies cancelled, promises scrapped, since lying #Tories came into office in December 2019.

24 hours after Treasury stated there is no plan to rescue UK Steel via subsidies, Sunak is now working on a rescue plan to do just that. ImageImage
101 U-turns: Pledges reversed, policies cancelled, promises scrapped, since lying #Tories came into office in December 2019.

A week ago ...
Johnson : "Transport investment key to levelling up,..."

Today ...
Tories swing axe on rail with mass cuts and huge redundancy programme. ImageImage
102 U-turns: Pledges reversed, policies cancelled, promises scrapped, since lying #Tories came into office in December 2019.

#Logistics Chaos : Dept of Transport ... "There are no plans to alter Cabotage."

Grant Shapps, Minister for er, Transport ... "Er, yeah, okay then." Image
103 U-turns: Pledges reversed, policies cancelled, promises scrapped, since lying #Tories came into office in December 2019.

2019 : "We promise that we will have the same or higher environmental standards than the EU."

2021 : "Probably don't swim near any of these beaches." Image
104 to 109 U-turns: Pledges reversed, policies cancelled, promises scrapped, since lying #Tories came into office in December 2019.

All Tories promises on #Farming after #Brexit. All lies. All promises broken. ImageImage
110 U-turns: Pledges reversed, policies cancelled, promises scrapped, since lying #Tories came into office in December 2019.

Billions slashed off “Levelling Up’ Manifesto Pledge before it’s even implemented.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
111 U-turns: Pledges reversed, policies cancelled, promises scrapped, since lying #Tories came into office in December 2019.

"Work from Home."
"No, don't Work from Home."
"Wait, yes, Work from Home."
"Hold on, we're thinking ... Ask us again tomorrow."

In date order ... ImageImageImageImage
112 U-turns: Pledges reversed, policies cancelled, promises scrapped, since lying #Tories came into office in December 2019.

Sajid Javid admits #Tories will break Manifesto Pledge of 6,000 more #NHS GPs in England.

theguardian.com/society/2021/n… Image
113 U-turns: Pledges reversed, policies cancelled, promises scrapped, since lying #Tories came into office in December 2019.

Johnson uturns on Bill on Parliamentary Sleaze Procedures. Plans to overhaul standards system halted.

theguardian.com/politics/2021/…

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Today I learned this :

In 1962, John Glenn lifted off in Friendship 7 to become the first American to orbit the planet.

Here's a brilliant (and short) true story about something that happened a few days before. Image
Due to multiple computer problems with the (then) new IBM systems, Glenn demanded all the orbit calculations be recalculated by hand, by one person - a brilliant black female mathemetician called Katherine Johnson. Image
ONLY if Johnson's manual calculations matched those of the IBM, would Glenn trust the systems.

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THIS DAY in 2007, Andrée de Jongh died.

Let me tell you about this amazing woman.

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She set up safehouses along the route from Belgium to Spain, procured clothes and false IDs, and ran the entire operation.

She personally made about 24 round trips before 'handing off' to other trusted couriers.

Arrested by the Nazis in January 1943, she did not break.
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She survived the Concentration Camps, survived the war, to work in hospitals in Africa, dying in 2007.
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Images of the time look like they could have come from the US Civil War 50 years previously.

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Email them to farrightwatch@gmail.com.

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