{"id":276,"date":"2017-03-28T16:12:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defiaye.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2017-06-29T16:18:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T16:18:48","slug":"all-the-bloody-terrible-stuff-that-the-uk-government-has-done-since-the-eu-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/28\/all-the-bloody-terrible-stuff-that-the-uk-government-has-done-since-the-eu-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Bloody Terrible Stuff that the Tory Government has done"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Made a deal with the sectarian terrorist group \u2013 DUP<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Pathetic response to the Grenfell tragedy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Tories and DUP team up to vote \u00a0<strong>for<\/strong> emergency services cuts and pay freeze<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Abolished the Department for Energy and Climate Change<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Fought against reforms to Personal Independence Payments in court which would extend disability benefit to people with conditions such as dementia<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Continued selling arms to Saudi Arabia, despite evidence that the Arab state has committed war crimes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Cut funding for pharmacies by more than \u00a3200 million over 18 months<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Spent \u00a31.9 million building a Wall. (Sound familiar?) \u201cGreat Wall of Calais\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Not told anyone about a Trident missile malfunction weeks before the Commons voted to replace 4 nuclear submarines costing 40 billion.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Told Scotland that \u2018Now is not the time\u2019 for an independence referendum despite dragging Scotland out of the EU when it collectively voted to stay.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Proposed jail sentences of up to 14 years for whistleblowers, and the prosecution of journalists who receive leaked documents.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Prison Crisis \u2013 which has seen officers walk out over concerns about safety and incidents of suicide and self-harm<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">NHS England Crisis \u2013\u00a0 deliberately underfunding the NHS (which has killed people- Elderly patient dies after a 35hr wait on a trolley as besieged A&amp;Es shut their doors 42 times leaving nurses in tears and now the Red Cross warns of a humanitarian crisis) and privatising contracts.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Scrapped housing benefit for 18 to 21-year-olds. Charities have warned the policy will lead to thousands of young people becoming homeless.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Despite Turkey\u2019s worsening human rights record \u2013 the UK Government is selling them British Fighter Jets for \u00a3100 million.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Abolished the Child Poverty Unit.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Introduced the \u201cSnoopers Charter\u201d, requiring internet and phone companies to store browsing histories for 12 months and giving the government access to the data.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Ruled out an inquiry into the Battle of Orgreave despite growing evidence that the South Yorkshire Police attacked and framed the miners.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">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).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Cut child tax credits by limiting them to 2 children.\u00a0 Women who have a third child need to prove they were raped (known as the Rape clause) if they claim for a third child ( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/government-ignores-pleas-to-scrap-tax-credit-rape-clause_uk_5883d118e4b02085409880c4\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/government-ignores-pleas-to-scrap-tax-credit-rape-clause_uk_5883d118e4b02085409880c4<\/a> )<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Westminster (UK gov) refusing to give reassurance to EU nationals that they can continue to live\/work in UK post Brexit.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Announced intention to repeal Human Rights Act<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Announced plans for a \u2018dementia tax\u2019 to force the elderly to pay for their own care<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Made a deal with the sectarian terrorist group \u2013 DUP &nbsp; Pathetic response to the Grenfell tragedy. &nbsp; Tories and DUP team up to vote \u00a0for emergency services cuts and pay freeze &nbsp; Abolished the Department for Energy and Climate Change &nbsp; Fought against reforms to Personal Independence Payments in court which would extend disability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[133,135,140,136,131,132,141,138,134,139,137,130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}