Party promises

Both main parties plan to spend, spend, spend. Despite the fact we are skint! Mr Johnson is not best known for telling the truth. If he gets in, I wonder how many of these promises would be kept.

Some dude on the Times comments has made a listing of all the promises from the Torys, from Times stories over the last couple of months.

1.     Johnson today announces a £13bn plan to build 40 new hospitals over the next decade
2.     Income tax cuts for the rich £8bn
3.     NI cuts for the lower paid Uncosted
4.     Broadband for all £5bn
5.     £2 billion on deprived towns as he targets Labour's Leave-voting heartlands.
6.     An “economic package” to support businesses in the autumn whatever the result of the Brexit talks Uncosted
7.     20,000 extra police officers £750m inc Training and supervision.
8.     20 new hospital upgrades. £850m.
9.     Mr Javid promised £200 million to “transform bus services”.
10.   Higher minimum wage (hits Public service costs quite hard ) Uncosted
11.   Free TV licences for over 75s -
12.   Raising the level at which stamp duty is levied uncosted
13.   A levelling up in per pupil spending in schools
14.   £700 million more to support children and young people with special educational needs.
15.   A new social care system to free elderly people of the fear of being forced to sell their homes
16.   Six tax haven "free ports" uncosted
17.   A towns fund that will look for “creative” ways to boost areas, including investments in infrastructure, local culture and other regeneration projects.
18.   A trans-Pennine railway between Leeds and Manchester as he calls for a “regional renaissance”
19.   He will ‘’bolster the Union’’ by promising a £300m spending spree The PM is to visit the four nations offering extra cash to realise potential "in every corner".
20.   £500m plan to help farmers hit by no-deal Brexit
21.   £160 million for Scottish farmers who lost out under the allocation of common agricultural policy funding
22.   Boris said -more and faster money for the NHS. £6.2bn this year and 17.5 extra billion in next 2 years. Then Javid says We’re making sure you start seeing the extra £33.9 billion
        for the NHS    – the biggest cash boost ever.
23.   Javid says We have now provided £8.3 billion to help departments prepare for Brexit
24.   More prisons £2.5bn for 10000 beds
25.   £500m for mini nuclear reactors (The locals will love that!!)
26.   As well as a billion pound investment in clean vehicles, ministers are promising £200 million for research into nuclear fusion, which would produce carbon-free energy from seawater.
27.   Bailout fund for Brexit damaged businesses
28.   The government will also provide £85 million to the Crown Prosecution Service to increase capacity and manage extra caseloads over the next two years.
29.   More money for carers
30.   £90 million for 1,000 diplomats and overseas staff to help “seize the opportunities of Brexit”.
31.   Michael Gove promises to prop up firms hit by no-deal tariffs a huge blank check for many years
32.   £13.8bn in extra day-to-day spending for 2020-21, representing a 4.1% uptick
33.   NHS funding increase of £6.2bn next year; including new equipment and upgrades for 20 hospitals
34.   Education spending increase of £7.1bn by 2022-23 compared to the current fiscal year
35.   Secondary schools to be allocated a minimum £5,000 per pupil, primary schools will get £3,750
36.   £750m for 20,000 police officers including £45m to hire 2,000 police by March next year
37.   Home Office day-to-day spending to increase by 6.3%
38.   Ministry of Defence funding to increase by £2.2bn or 2.6%
39.   £54 million to tackle homelessness
40.   Javid -  We’re expanding Further Education with an extra £400 million
41.   UK taxpayers subsidies to UK arms factories by buying often inferior higher priced products.
42.   Pioneering gene-based therapies and artificial intelligence are to be used to help people with cancer, dementia and Parkinson’s with a £133 million boost from the government
43.   Javid said also – 30 Sept - extra funding for youth services.
44.   The government has offered the DUP funding to boost economic growth.
45.   Money so easier for patients to get access to new medicines
46.   Money to keep serious criminals in prison for longer, impose tougher sentences on foreign offenders
47.   Money to make it easier to repatriate holiday-makers if their airline goes bust
48.   Residents of flood-damaged homes will receive up to £10,000 towards measures to protect their properties from future deluges under plans from a government-backed scheme
49.   The government promised that the multibillion-pound towns fund would “unleash the full economic potential of more than 100 places and level up communities throughout the country”.
50.   Boris Johnson pledged yesterday to invest an extra £500 million in rapid charging points for electric cars
51.   Mr Johnson also announced a new national space strategy to replace the European Space Agency,
52.   Support for nuclear fusion.
53.   A new British Advanced Research Projects Agency. This would have a budget of £800 million over five years and would fund high-risk research that might not find commercial backers.