Liberal Democrats Manifesto Launch Election 2017


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This is a constituency of enormous importance to the future of the

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United Kingdom. The election on the 8th of June is going to be about

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what kind of country we are. Are we to imagine on the 9th of June how

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things might be for places like this? If Therese of May records the

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kind of landslide victory that Margaret Thatcher recorded in the

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1980s. Imagine what that might mean for our hospitals and schools and

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imagine especially what it might mean for our older people. On this

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day of all days, we will discover if you or your loved one has dementia,

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Theresa May is coming for you. A dementia tax on people around this

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country is utterly heartless and born out of the fact that Theresa

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May assumes that the election is already won. We look at what happens

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to health and social care in this country and the Liberal Democrats

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are being honest with you, will if we want the best health and social

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care in the world, we will have to pay for it. We will ask each of you

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to put a penny on income tax to pay for the best health and social care

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anywhere. Something you can rely on for your future. On the 9th of June,

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there will still be plans by the end of this academic year for two out of

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three headteachers in this country to sack at least one teacher by the

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beginning of the new term. Theresa May has no doubt, she is planning to

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do with schools as she is already doing with hospitals. That is why

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winning here is so important. If Theresa May wins with a land slide,

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she will assume she has a mandate for the dementia tax and the

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hospital cuts and to take out teachers from our schools. If you

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want to make sure you are not taken for granted, you must vote for the

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Liberal Democrats. It went very well. The opportunity to set out to

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the country that we don't need to accept the bleak direction that the

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extreme version of Brexit will lead towards for our children. It is an

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opportunity to challenge the Prime Minister, she called this election

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and then chose not to turn up, that shows a complete lack of respect for

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the people she is expecting to put her back in number ten. I was

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pleased to set out my case that the Britain I love is not lost yet. If

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you believe the people should have the final say on the Brexit deal,

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the Liberal Democrats are for you. Your message has been about the

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dangers of a hard Brexit, you haven't had the Lib Dem fightback

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you promise, will that change? We have three weeks where many people

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have felt that given that Jeremy Corbyn and Labour have just gone on

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with Theresa May's plan for an extreme version of Brexit, the UK

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provision, that all is lost. The Liberal Democrats are giving fresh

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hope that things can end differently and that if you believe you should

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have the final say on the referendum and the Brexit deal and not the

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politicians, the Liberal Democrats are your only hope. How do you

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defend it to people to say they are being penalised? People on higher

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tax rates and receiving benefits, it is right when you are trying to

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balance the books that you look at those payments and see if you can

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spend them differently. The Conservative plans elsewhere are

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utterly heartless. The ending of the triple lock and the pension

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guarantee, the Liberal Democrats brought that to government, it means

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the poorest paid pensioners will end up back in poverty thanks to Theresa

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May. Even worse than that, is the dementia tax that Theresa May is

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introducing. What she is now proposing is that if your husband

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has dementia and has to go into a nursing home, your family home will

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have to be cashed in to pay for it. If you have dementia or one of your

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loved ones does, trees make this coming for you. We must fight

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against it, the Liberal Democrats are absolutely to term and to keep a

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cap what it costs. The 2017 general election is in front of us. We have

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the key speeches from the main players in full and uncut. As well

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as the big campaign events. Don't miss the big moments. Pure politics

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from the UK's only dedicated politics channel.

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