Thread by @PublicPriestley

When you contemplate the future financial prosperity of the UK you cannot picture the Conservatives doing what is needed to get our economy there. They are deliberately working against the interests of ordinary people. They want inequality. 1/9

The Tories know that the price of closing the inequality gap is that we must have fewer and fewer people who are *exceptionally* wealthy in order to have fewer people in exceptional poverty. Tories protect the exceptionally wealthy and they harm the most vulnerable. 2/9

That exceptional wealth is derived from the suffering of the poor, the vulnerable, the disabled - and has crept up to bite professional people too. That exceptional wealth is safeguarded to the bitter end by one Tory leader after the next. 3/9

The Tory offer is never to make most people better off - it's to make a few people better off, and to dangle the distance possibility that you might be one of the people who gets lucky with that (but the billionaires always win). 4/9

Asking the Tories to nurse the economy is like watching an abuse of trust. The nurse who poisons the patient - but makes the patient too scared to do anything about it. 5/9

There are no more cuts to be made. You can only sell the family silver once. They cut everything - they scorched the earth through Austerity 1. We have nothing left to cut. Nothing left to sell. 6/9

Schools, the armed forces, the police, hospitals, GPs, social care, the probation service, fire & rescue, the ambulance service, child and adolescent mental health services - there is nothing *left*. 7/9

When this stint of Tory rule is over, this last twelve years will be reflected upon as the most harmful, the most damaging, and the most despicable in the grand history of Tory malevolence. 8/9

They know we want a general election. We know that we want a general election. They are deliberately blocking the preferences of the entire nation. They have no mandate or justification. It really is time. 9/9 #GeneralElectionN0W