There are countless examples of Tory candidates spreading fear among voters and lying about Labour's policies - including the Tory leader himself.
In last night’s leaders’ debate David Cameron said it was “disgraceful to try and frighten people” by distributing scaremongering leaflets during the election campaign – yet there are countless examples of Tory candidates spreading fear among voters and lying about Labour’s policies – including the Tory leader himself.
In a letter to pensioners in St Ives two weeks ago, Cameron wrote:
“You may have read that Labour are also considering what the newspapers call a “death tax” to pay for care costs – a new tax on everything you have saved and want to leave to your children.”
This in spite of the Chancellor, 11 days earlier, ruling out such a tax – in a debate with George Osborne. Cameron’s signed letter spinning the death tax line is just one of several sent out by Conservatives over the past few weeks, a selection of which can be seen below:
Clockwise from top left:
• A dog-whistle leaflet on immigration delivered by Tory council candidate Osman Dervish in Andrew Rosindell’s Romford consituency;
• A leaflet about crime delivered in Enfield Lock, featuring David Cameron’s picture and a quote;
• The Tory leader’s signed letter about the “death tax“; and
• Tory PPC for Edmonton Andrew Charalambous’s leaflet featuring a bloody machete and the “pure lie” (to quote David Cameron) that violent crime had gone up 44 per cent under Labour.
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54 Responses to “Exposed: Cameron’s hypocrisy over “disgraceful” leaflets”
Mr. Sensible
This was the story before the U-turn:
http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Council-cuts-bus-train-concessions/article-1930915-detail/article.html
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[…] Well, apart from Ken Clarke, who said a hung parliament risked the IMF being called in – a claim demolished by Varun Chandra on Left Foot Forward today. Or for that matter the legion of Tory candidates some of whose scaremongering, dog whistle literature you can see here. […]
Su
RT @sametories: via @leftfootforward – tory hypocrisy over leaflets claim
http://bit.ly/bGbp1c #ge2010 #sameoldtories
Shamik Das
Mr Sensible, as always, spot on.
doublemadforit, I would argue that all four leaflets, coupled with Ken Clarke’s IMF warning, are scaremongering, disgraceful attempts to try and frighten people.
Cameron wrote his letter 11 days after Darling ruled out a death tax. ELEVEN. Given the Chancellor’s remarks, it is surely wrong for Cameron, while seeking to claim the moral high ground on this, to have implied to elderly people that Labour was still considering a so-called “death tax” – that is, of course, assuming he knew about Darling’s remarks (it’s hard to believe he would have been ignorant of them), that his words were written at the time of delivery, and that he had actually written them, and they weren’t dreamt up by some minion in CCHQ.
Jonathan Taylor
Cameron trying to 'steer' the debate on to leaflets – hypocrisy, check this out.. http://bit.ly/bonT0X #paxo