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Vanity election will cost £145 million and what’s it all for?

Teresa May-hem’s vanity election will cost £145 million for what?

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Prime Minister Theresa May is introduced by former Foreign Secretary William Hague

Why should a Tory Prime minister risk an election three years costing £145m before needed under the Tory’s own recently introduced 5 year fixed term? Simple answer, £145m worth of vanity, just to remind all voters on both sides of the ‘Independence Day’ vote on June 23rd 2016, the Tory government sent out a nine million pound glossy HM Government leaflets recommending ‘remain in the EU is the best decision’.

As the British tax payers are still paying the 1p in every £1 into the EU according to the HM Governments own glossy leaflet page 11, Teresa May-hem’s delay in cancelling Great Britain’s EU gym membership immediately has already seen billions that could have gone towards renovating NHS squirreled off east to the EU, and the 1p in every £1 of tax, the British cash gift tap to the EU is still dripping, drip, drip, drip and counting. Maybe the Tory’s hope that the extra revenue generated by killing more foxes if they get Labour’s hunting ban lifted will save the NHS?

The Lib/Dems suggest instead of stopping the 1p in every £1 tax being sent to the EU, the British people should have to endure a 1p income tax hike and spend more money on another ‘Independence Day’ referendum.

Both the Tory’s and the Lib/Dems have one policy in common, they both have a very cavalier attitude to giving our 1p in every £1 tax away to the EU rather than pump an extra 1p in every £1 into the NHS and squandering our money on vanity elections.

G E Fanthom, Swindon