Policy problems

The Conservative Party released their election manifesto yesterday, and the general message is that their policy is to reverse their policies of the last decade, from trying to increase the numbers of police, nurses, end austerity, give people the right to question the executive (unless it is embarrassing for Johnson, of course).

Not that many journalists have pointed this out to Johnson or any of the current cabinet. Which should be their job.

And looking at the front pages it is all about how wonderful things will be under Johnson in the new year, with Brexit and the increase in spending increases and all the other lies the Tories have been spouting.

In total the Tories have promised to increase spending by as little as £3 billion; maybe they know the piggy bank is empty?

But when experts look into the figures of how many of the "new" nurses are actually new, its very few. Johnson being economical with the truth? Who'd have thought it. And they are going to reverse their policy of scrapping nurse's bursaries, five years after it was scrapped.

"Boris Johnson pledge for 50,000 more nurses not quite what it seems - 12k from abroad, 14k new undergrad students, 5k degree apprenticeships. Which leaves 19k nurses “retained” who would otherwise have left... so not “new” nurses at all."

They really are shameless.

Which should surprise no one.