29 days to go

There are 29 days to go until election day

The choice is clear in this election which has been called a battle for Britain's soul.

The Conservatives have a positive, dynamic vision for Britain.

A Conservative majority will:
  • Make it easier to see your GP – under a majority Conservative government, there will be 50 million more appointments in GP surgeries, more GPs, more pharmacists and easier ways to book appointments. 
  • Introduce a new visa to attract the best doctors and nurses to work in our NHS and provide high-quality care transforming the experience of patients. 
  • Invest in infrastructure and level up opportunities across the country. 
  • Support our fantastic British drink producers like Scotch whisky distilleries – another example of the Conservatives delivering for the Scotland whilst the SNP are fixated on another independence referendum. 

Key things to remember throughout this campaign:
  • The choice at this election is between a majority Conservative government that will end the paralysis and confusion in Parliament, get Brexit done, and let the country move on OR a hung Parliament bringing more confusion and Corbyn in Downing Street. 
  • Only the Conservatives can win a majority – we only need to win nine more seats to end the gridlock in Parliament. 
  • It is most unlikely that Jeremy Corbyn could win a majority but in a hung parliament he would be propped up by the SNP. Under Corbyn 2020 would be lost to the chaos of another two referendums – one on Brexit and another on Scottish independence.

A Conservative Government can unleash Britain’s potential. Investing in our NHS with 40 new hospitals, cutting crime with 20,000 more police, introducing an Australian style points based immigration system, and giving businesses and families the economic certainty they need to plan for the future with confidence.

Comments

Jim said…
I see Farage has stated that his Brexit party wont stand in current conservative seats. Interesting, but rather ill thought out. Its more than likely that the current conservative seats will remain blue, it would help much much much much more if they did not field candidates to split the vote in the Labour Marginals.

Just saying
Anonymous said…
Vote Trudy, get Nigel
Gary Bullivant said…
Mrs Harrison's rapid rise to Gavin Williamson's PPS at Education via Gavin Williamson's team at the Ministry of Defence has been rewarded with an early election visit to Copeland by ....Gavin Williamson. I understand they were planning to visit Sellafield and the the proposed site of the Rolls Royce SMR but Gavin is considered to be too much of a security risk to be allowed near the place. Allegedly anyway.
Chris Whiteside said…
Gavin Williamson was on a whistle-stop-tour of Cumbria which took in Westmorland & Lonsdale, Copeland, and Workington.

His Copeland visit was relevant to his portfolio - Gavin met Trudy outside Whitehaven Academy where his department is funding the long-overdue rebuilding for which the school had already been kept waiting for far too long when I was appointed to the governing body a decade ago at the tail end of the last Labour government.
Chris Whiteside said…
Vote Trudy, get Trudy.
Gary Bullivant said…

Interesting you say that they met outside WA, where planning permission is yet to be given btw, but don't mention that they both went inside for a briefing from the Respect, Responsibility and Resilence team.

"Always good to be with @CopelandTories
’s Trudy Harrison & great to be able to visit @whitehavenacad with her today.

I wonder if a ministerial visit with a candidate in tow is really in the spirit of the purdah rules. One for the cabinet office ethics team perhaps?
Chris Whiteside said…
If ministerial visits to support candidates were against the purdah rules I don't think there would be a single holder of ministerial office during any of the last ten General Elections, of any party, who would not have been in trouble for breaking them.
garyb said…
Calling out whataboutism is a duty for us all. Consider yourself called out. As for the ethics of the visit, we should leave that to Mr Lywood and the chair of the Planning Panel to reflect on.
Chris Whiteside said…
Sorry, Gary, but consider yourself called out for being unreasonable.

The words "Whataboutism" or "Whataboutery" are usually used to describe the tactic of trying to deflect a specific criticism of yourself or your candidate, without answering it, by saying "whatabout" and then pointing to something that an opponent has done and arguing that they are as bad or worse.

I wasn't trying to criticise anyone else, I was answering the criticism by pointing out that making campaign visits with a candidate is neither against the rules nor against custom and practice. That isn't the same thing
Chris Whiteside said…
There were no problems with the ethics of the visit. Consider yourself also called out for stirring up non-existent problems.

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