No room for complacency – vote to reject the politics of austerity and hate
Rishi Sunak
GRIM polls for the Tories suggest electoral wipeout tomorrow, but we cannot be complacent.
Their chaotic campaign doesn’t mean they have “lost their way,” as rightwingers like Jacob Rees-Mogg and Suella Braverman claim while jockeying for post-election position.
It is a wild scramble to distract the public from 14 catastrophic years, in which they have starved the public sector of funds, creating the collapsing service we now see in the NHS, education and across local government; started or fuelled devastating wars, from Libya through Syria to Yemen and Gaza; and engineered a massive transfer of wealth from ordinary people to the richest.
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