Thread by @PublicPriestley

Just about every part of our country is crumbling and in a state of wild disrepair, but the Tories, whenever asked, simply ask you not to believe your own eyes & ears. Disregard your personal experiences because all is well and getting better. #GTTONow 1/

Doctors - GPs - are in crisis. I know GPs as close personal friends who, having qualified recently regret their career choices & they are looking at other options. I know student doctors in their penultimate year who are getting ready to work in the financial sector instead. 2/20

Roads - too dangerous to drive on, jarring collisions with deep holes and cracks. Nothing speaks more honestly of what the Tories have done than the state of the roads. Utter neglect and decay. While billions have been wasted on pet projects and backhanded to mates. 3/20

Energy - the availability & the supply of energy is in crisis and now more expensive than we've ever known in the UK. While our EU neighbours cap and nationalise we actively encourage companies to fleece the population on petrol, diesel, oil, electricity and gas. 4/20

Policing - we have a capital police organisation beset with deep scandal, & provincial constabularies continue to struggle in under funded conditions having lost 20k+ experienced officers only to be promised 20k inexperienced officers that the government now cannot recruit. 5/20

Schools - teachers on strike. Underpaid, under resourced and undervalued. Schools are now the front line battleground for the welfare of the most vulnerable children because social care, early help & other support services barely exist. 6/20

Social Care, Early Help & family support. Remember the difference that Sure Start once made? The most vulnerable families are left to battle poverty - fuel & food unaffordable. Now sharing coats and clothing. Thresholds to gain support are incomprehensibly high. 7/20

Family poverty? We went from having a welfare state to any support being a vicious dirty thing. It became a choice between food and fuel. Now families struggle to afford either and the rents are going up. No council housing. Private sector landlords rejoice. 8/20

Housing - first time buyers haven't got a chance unless they come from a privileged upbringing and parents pay the deposit. Family homes are beyond family incomes. New build projects propped up by government ponzi schemes disguised as help to buy. 9/20

Public transport - rail workers on strike, buses breaking down & unreliable. Everything run for profit, nothing for affordability. No regard for the planet. Instead HS2 costs billions & ploughs on through greenbelt to save half an hour between London and Manchester. 10/20

The environment - we actually have a government that has opened a coal mine. They have voted to pump untreated sewage into our waterways. They mount constant attacks on the international commitments to carbon net zero. The planet means nothing versus profit to them 11/20

International trade - Brexit has crushed exports & made imports expensive. The price of food has soared, the availability of food has plummeted. Businesses have closed. Rather than deal with the cause the ERG flail in broken promises and terrible new trade agreements. 12/20

All of this - and more without doubt - while we struggle with the self inflicted harm of the Conservative Party. Covid loan frauds written off (billions). PPE scandals (billions). Test and trace (billions) three Prime Ministers and a 'mini-budget' (billions more) 13/20

All that we could have done with what is now hundreds of billions in wasted public money - instead it was gifted to sponsors and vested interests (Michelle Moan? Dido Harding?) - and nobody has been held to account. Nobody prosecuted. 14/20

There isn't a problem on this list that couldn't have been addressed with the money that was handed out via the PPE fast-lane, or wasted by Liz Truss propping up the pound because of her own stupidity and Thatcher cosplay hubris. 15/20

This doesn't include what we have lost in terms of international trade or the damage done to businesses. This government have been in charge 12 years with a solid majority (no election promise knowingly kept) and still they blame the opposition & point fingers. 16/20

They distract with their fixation on boats, their vilification of asylum seekers and ethnic minorities, their hatred of foreign people (unless rich) and their attacks on anything they can label as 'woke'. 17/20

Meanwhile our media is rigged to keep them in power - with platforms such as GB News, The Daily Mail, The S*n, Telegraph, and now the BBC (board of which is handpicked by the Tory party) - continuing to run their preferred news stories via client journalists. 18/20

Worth noting that Boris Johnson was the first Prime Minister ever to be sanctioned by the police. He was the only Prime Minister to have been sanctioned by the police until Rishi Sunak eventually took over and he became the second. 19/20

That's where we are folks. So when the next Tory MP, minister or councillor says that they need more time and that the only solution is Conservative - you tell them that we haven't got any more time to give them. The situation is too bad now. They have to go. 20/20 #GTTO