ITV debate ignores a £100bn elephant in the general election room
https://www.thecanary.co/editorial/2024/06/13/itv-debate-universal-credit/

#ITV
#Debate
#GE
#GE2024
#ElephantInTheRoom
#UniversalCredit
#ITVDebate
#Starmer
#Sunak
#SkyNews
#SkyNewsDebate
#Farage
#SystemicDiscrimination
#ToryCuts
#Sanctions
#ResolutionFoundation
#WorkingUCClaimants
#WorkDoesNotPay

RT by @CarolineLucas: If you agree with what you've heard tonight -

- protecting the NHS
- bringing services into public ownership
- stand up for migrants and people seeking asylum
- and action on the climate crisis

Then: http://join.greenparty.org.uk

#ITVDebate

[2024-06-13 21:04 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Cheered when Carla Denyer was the first to say yes to rejoining the EU and single market. Thank you @carla_denyer!

@TheGreenParty rightly believes Britain belongs in the EU #ITVDebate

[2024-06-13 20:22 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: “During the debate, the Green Party’s co-leader @carla_denyer criticised the role of privatisation in the health service and made the case for a publicly owned NHS.”

#ITVDebate

https://leftfootforward.org/2024/06/an-nhs-for-people-not-profit-green-party-co-leader-rails-against-nhs-privatisation-in-leaders-debate/

[2024-06-13 20:10 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Carla Denyer straight out the gates with the clear choice facing us at this election.

More austerity with the two old parties - or the investment that @TheGreenParty is calling for.

We'll defend our NHS.

#ITVDebate

[2024-06-13 19:41 UTC]

What the fuck is Mordaunt on about? Raising CGT rates will not make it more expensive for families to sell their houses! You don't pay CGT on your primary residence. Why on earth didn't Rayner point that out to her?
#GE2024 #ITVDebate

£38bn track and trace . Have we forgotten about that? #itvdebate

James Bowler, the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, wrote to Sunak asking him not to associate the: 'Labour will cost £2,000 per family', claim with the Civil Service, as he did on last night's #ITVDebate

But in this post-truth world, the maxim is to win at all costs, and thus Sunak lied to the cameras, the audience, and ultimately the nation

#DamageDone

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Who the hell in #labour team preparing for the #itvdebate didn’t think that Sunak wasn’t going to to lie his lying arse off & didn’t prepare for the £2k tax lie? It’s like they came to a knife fight holding a banana. #progressive parties do this too often and we lose elections because of it. Elections are not a gentlemanly joust & Labour’s pre-work was simply not good enough. There are no second chances here. They either play to the dirty #Tories or forget their chances of winning big. #gtto

It seems that Sunak’s claim that Labour would raise taxes by £2,000 was a straight up lie and Sunak knew it. #itvdebate

Has #SunaktheLiar stepped into a trap? He blasted out his lies re £2K tax on #ITVDebate. Now the Permanent Sec to Treasury pours cold water on Sunak's lies. Sunak now equalling #Johnson for lying & stupidity. https://rb.gy/nssiiw #rejoinEU #ToryLiars #ToryGasLighting #ToryCorruption

“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on”
Terry Pratchett; The Truth
#Discworld #ITVDebate #The2000 #LiarSunak #MrIntegrityFail #ToryLiars

“There were plotters, there was no doubt about it. Some had been ordinary people who'd had enough. Some were young people with no money who objected to the fact that the world was run by old people who were rich.”
Terry Pratchett; Night Watch
#Discworld #ITVDebate #LiarSunak #ToriesTargetingTheYoung #VoteToriesOut

To everyone in the media having a blue fit this morning about that woeful #itvdebate Sunak did this to hurt Starmer and Starmer did this to hurt Sunak!

Sunak hurt himself by being himself - techty & rude.

Starmer hurt himself by being too slow to refute some of the things being said.

However, I think we all know for all the spin that each side is putting on this we all can remember 'I agree with Nick'!
Did have any impact upon who people voted for????

I saw about 3 questions’ worth of the #itvdebate last night. It was as facile as I expected.

The dynamic of it was something like this:

Q: these floorboards and the ones of the floor beneath and the ones of the floor beneath that, are riddled with dry rot. How will you make this building safe?

Sunak: our oil investments will allow us to put a nice oil finish on all the floors

Starmer: that’s ridiculous! We will use wax

RT by @CarolineLucas: The NHS won't be fixed unless it is PROPERLY FUNDED

France spends £40 billion more per year on its health service

Germany spends £73 billion more per year

Ask your election candidates to sign our NHS Pledge https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/pledge-nhs

#ITVDebate

https://www.health.org.uk/news-and-comment/charts-and-infographics/how-does-uk-health-spending-compare-across-europe-over-the-past-decade

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