Have a look round the sq mile for thousands more.

COYP

There are many reasons for me to vote Conservative.

I'm pro responsible spending and certainly pro investment in the right areas. The idea that the Tories are underspending is frankly a nonsense, they're spending a higher proportion of GDP [Link] than New Labour did.

What I'm against is killing off small businesses with hikes in corporation tax, raising the minimum wage and abolishing zero hours contracts. I run a small business and I will have to lay off at least one member of staff if he gets in and I am far from an exploitative employer. Getting quite sick of hearing Corbyn say that people like me are the scourge in our society when I've provided jobs to people.

It's really as simple as that. Corbyn does not represent the view that I have of the economy and what I think should be done with it.

I'm also pro-Brexit and free trade and want to get those policies through. We can genuinely lift African farmers out of extreme poverty by trading with them, there's currently an obscene tariff on their exports meaning they can't trade with us. We get cheaper food, they get good business and become wealthier (and will one day use our financial services), making their government elites less powerful etc etc. That's another argument I suppose.

I have many reservations about Theresa May, but the Conservatives in my eyes are the only option at this election.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

Well this is awkward.

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They won't deny us access. It's not in their interests. Labour's policy is to gain single market access. The Tories' policy is not. They don't seem to have an actual policy. Just Brexit means Brexit and No Deal is better than a Bad Deal. Meaningless waffle.

Profits are the index of what people want, not good or bad. Where high profits are being made, there is unsatisfied demand, and the high profits will attract more capital and more energy into meeting it

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

You do realise that the graph showing shorter bars since New Labour left government means they have spent LESS as a % of GDP not more? Also that data is from 2013 and we've moved forward in time 4 years since then? It's fallen every year since 2010 as a % of GDP up to and including this year. Whatsmore our public spending is reasonably small compared to other economies around the world, so it can hardly be described as having been abnormally large. All these cuts, destroying public services, but still they miss every target on the deficit and debt. That simple graph also ignores aspects like the NHS funding gap (aka underfunding) and the cuts in school per pupil budgets and cuts in the police force just to name a couple.

Labour's proposal for corporation tax would see CT on SMALL businesses at 20%. I assume you've overlooked that fact? He's actually said the opposite saying that small businesses are the lifeblood of the economy and it's big business that has had an unfair advantage and been exploitative. The increase in minimum wage would enable people to have a proper living wage and Labour have said they would look at providing tax breaks to small businesses impacted. Furthermore improvements in education and productivity resulting from investment in education and training will benefit businesses small and large.

Neither party has said anything about specific trade deals, however I would imagine Labour would be more concerned with protecting workers rights while tackling world poverty than the Tories.