Russell Findlay slammed for ‘insulting’ claim Tories lifted folk out of poverty

by backupJM

14 comments
  1. >The new Scottish Conservatives leader said “lifting hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty” was some of the “good we did as a UK Government.”

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  2. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for ’em.

  3. I think we’ve exhausted the use of the word slam now.

    Perhaps we could start… wallop?

  4. Tory policies have killed thousands of poor and disabled people

  5. This is endless with political parties of all stripes.

    In reality, hundreds of thousands of people can go in and out of poverty on the basis of tiny statistical changes. And, moreover, without getting any better or worse off.

    It’s no great boast – on a statistical level, poverty and other metrics of inequality have been fairly flat since the early 90s.

    If you want to actually reflect genuine improvements in people’s living standards, drop the obsession with poverty figures.

  6. Straight out of the Trump / Vance playbook…if you can’t find anything positive and truthful to talk about, then just make wild sh#t up! The contempt these politicians have regarding the public’s intellect, actually emboldens them to think they can say this bs and nobody will notice.🤦🫣🤪

  7. Delusional outrageous liar? He’ll replace DRoss seamlessly.

    At first glance I thought that was a pic of Murdo – they do look similar as well as sharing cunt-hood status. 🙂

  8. The tories put more people into poverty 😅 with their austerity and terrible economy of stagnation

  9. Someone has to inform the 190,000 people estimated to have died as a result of austerity policies about this. They’ll be delighted, I’m sure.

  10. Wonder what his source is?

    Oh right – he just pulled this out of his arse.

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