- Made a deal with the sectarian terrorist group – DUP
- Pathetic response to the Grenfell tragedy.
- Tories and DUP team up to vote for emergency services cuts and pay freeze
- Abolished the Department for Energy and Climate Change
- Fought against reforms to Personal Independence Payments in court which would extend disability benefit to people with conditions such as dementia
- Reduced the benefits cap (affecting the 116,000 of the poorest families in the UK). This has also put domestic abuse refuges at risk of closure.
- Continued selling arms to Saudi Arabia, despite evidence that the Arab state has committed war crimes.
- Cut funding for pharmacies by more than £200 million over 18 months
- Spent £1.9 million building a Wall. (Sound familiar?) “Great Wall of Calais”
- Not told anyone about a Trident missile malfunction weeks before the Commons voted to replace 4 nuclear submarines costing 40 billion.
- Cancelled plans to allow unaccompanied child refugees into the UK. Then claiming there was no more room. The UK Gov then refused to consult with councils on capacity.
- Told Scotland that ‘Now is not the time’ for an independence referendum despite dragging Scotland out of the EU when it collectively voted to stay.
- Proposed jail sentences of up to 14 years for whistleblowers, and the prosecution of journalists who receive leaked documents.
- Prison Crisis – which has seen officers walk out over concerns about safety and incidents of suicide and self-harm
- NHS England Crisis – deliberately underfunding the NHS (which has killed people- Elderly patient dies after a 35hr wait on a trolley as besieged A&Es shut their doors 42 times leaving nurses in tears and now the Red Cross warns of a humanitarian crisis) and privatising contracts.
- Scrapped housing benefit for 18 to 21-year-olds. Charities have warned the policy will lead to thousands of young people becoming homeless.
- Despite Turkey’s worsening human rights record – the UK Government is selling them British Fighter Jets for £100 million.
- Abolished the Child Poverty Unit.
- Introduced the “Snoopers Charter”, requiring internet and phone companies to store browsing histories for 12 months and giving the government access to the data.
- Ruled out an inquiry into the Battle of Orgreave despite growing evidence that the South Yorkshire Police attacked and framed the miners.
- Ignored WASPI women (a group that fights the injustice done to all women born in the 1950s affected by the changes to the State Pension Law (1995/2011 Acts).
- Cut child tax credits by limiting them to 2 children. Women who have a third child need to prove they were raped (known as the Rape clause) if they claim for a third child ( http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/government-ignores-pleas-to-scrap-tax-credit-rape-clause_uk_5883d118e4b02085409880c4 )
- Westminster (UK gov) refusing to give reassurance to EU nationals that they can continue to live/work in UK post Brexit.
- Announced intention to repeal Human Rights Act
- Announced plans for a ‘dementia tax’ to force the elderly to pay for their own care