Tim Farron Election 2017

The Prime Minister has changed her mind this morning or this afternoon

in Wales, what's your verdict on this? She's not changed her mind at

all. The dementia tax is still sadly alive and well. We're just told how

much it will be after the election. The British people's intelligence is

being insulted by a woman who started this morning being cruel and

now has added chaos to that. Some people are calling it a U-turn.

She's saying it's not a U-turn, what are you calling it? It's not a

U-turn. She's clearly carrying on with the dementia tax. Millions of

people out there, who run the risk of being victims of this dementia

tax and indeed not just those who have or who care for people with

dementia, what about people with multiple Cher owess or other

long-term conditions and their loved ones? It looks like nine in ten

houses of those families in this country are now at risk from Theresa

May's ongoing dementia tax, that she will give no clarity over. She has

put a cap on it, something she said she wouldn't previously. She's not

put any figure on the cap. The Liberal Democrats have been clear on

what our cap is, a lower manageable figure of ?72,000 funded in part

about our penny of income tax to fund health and social care. Do you

not think if there was a low acceptable cap on this tax she would

have told us already. The fact that there's going to be consultation

that we find out after the election, when the people of Britain are

supposed to have given her a land slide majority that somehow will

satisfy millions of people, fearful that the tax is coming their way,

that just stretches inreduality. You're saying that nothing's changed

then? Nothing has changed whatsoever. We started off with

cruelty from Theresa May and she's added chaos to that cruelty. It's

another reason why people need to vote for a party who offer the only

and best chance of defeating Conservative MPs around this

country. As things stand, Theresa May with a huge majority that she

now expects in two and a bit weeks time, will feel she's got the right

to do all these things, to cut schools, to cut hospitals and now

time pose the dementia tax on vulnerable people and families

around the country. OK, you're not calling it a U-turn because your

party made a U-turn previously on tuition fees? I don't call something

a U-turn when it's not. That would mean that Theresa May had gone back

on the tax. She hasn't. She's put a cap on something which she said she

wouldn't. She's not. She said there would be a cap the other side of the

election. Even the most credulous person out there is not going to be

taken in, this is going to cost you your house, we won't tell you how

much until after you've voted for me. You said before, you have

compared her to captain manering, is that correct or just something I

read? You may have overheard it. She's left Margaret Thatcher more

captain Manering, it's more case of don't panic more than strong and

stable. Moving on, question I need to ask you about Trident. What is

your policy? We don't agree with Jeremy Corbyn

that giving up weapons is a wise thing to do. In an insecure world

retaining its deterrent, in a world where others have theirs is the wise

thing. It is important to remember that our member of the Security

Council, allows us the ability to negotiate others weapons away. Your

figures, the poll figures in The Papers, we are looking at 8 or 9%,

is this anti-Brexit not working? The poll ratings have been edging up and

we are encouraged by that, with two weeks to go people have a clear

choice, we know Labour are likely to lose 50-100 seats. Labour's

briefings are saying that, we expect the SNP to lose seats, say that to

demonstrate the one party with a chance of making gains from the

Conservative, and therefore preventing the landslide that will

give Theresa May permission to bring in the dementia tax, to scrap free

school meal, to cut schools in other way, the only vote that will achieve

that is a Liberal Democrat one. Why were you here today speaking to an

SMA We are here to support entrepreneurs on a day when leaders

wrote to the Liberal Democrats as being the party of business. The

Conservatives have turned their back on the single market and showed them

to be a protectionist party, someone has to #12e7 up and support

businesses large and small. A great opportunity do that today in person

today. Are you going to be talking about other things about Brexit and

the single market? Can we expect to hear other issues? The Liberal

Democrats have been honest with the British people and said if you want

the best health and social care services in the world, it is right

we pay for them, that is the only way we can do it. We say we put a

penny on income tax to raise that extra 6 billion a year, we are the

one party with a costed proocean to undo Theresa May's cuts to school,

we know two in three head teachers will sack at least one teacher,

because of budget cuts and the Liberal Democrats with that costed

plan to stop that. So if you want the kind of country where we value

our school, value children, value older people, value our National

Health service, the Liberal Democrat is the one party setting out a clear

alternative.