Tim Farron Election 2017

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

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

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

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

kind of landslide victory that Margaret Thatcher recorded in the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

opportunity to challenge the Prime Minister, she called this election

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

spend them differently. The Conservative plans elsewhere are

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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