As a generalization the elderly will vote Tory regardless because they remember the seventies and secondly because they instinctively don't like people who stood up for the IRA when they were murdering our soldiers....and basically promoted any anti western movement out there.

Corbyn has no chance in hell with the elderly and he knows it.

The tories are beyond the pale.

Elderly will have to pay for their own social care - tory manifesto.

It was us 'progressives' wot got your red card rescinded. Remember that.

Just watch Jeremy Hunt on the BBC. Awful interview not in the Diane Abbott mouldy but pretty shocking none the less.

Hmm many do including the UK until Blair separated the BoE from the State.

Metaphorically, they can still print money through policies like QE.

It is not only me that thinks Corbyns manifesto will kill this country:

"BUSINESS grandee and former Labour Minister Digby Jones claims “ignorant” Jeremy Corbyn will spark an exodus from Britain.
He has said Labour leader’s barmy manifesto would bankrupt the country.
And he said: “If this guy becomes Prime Minister the best shares to buy would be British Airways because of all the people who’ll be buying one-way tickets out of the country.”

Referring to yesterday’s manifesto launch, he said: “I watched it open mouthed.
“Anybody under the age of 45 will forget what it was like when Socialists last had their hand in the cookie jar.”
And he went on: “But the IMF ran the country, and when they didn’t the trade unions did.
The strikes were so bad you couldn’t bury the dead.”
He added: “When I watched today I thought this guy is living in another world.
He says he’ll nationalise the water industry. How? By issuing bonds.”
Issuing bonds doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay, it just means you’re delaying it. It’s incredible ignorance.”

Tim Knox of the Centre for Policy Studies said Britain would become the “sick man of Europe” under Labour.
He said: “Labour would take us straight back to the 1970s: penal tax rates, union domination, economic chaos. The UK would be badly governed, badly managed and badly behaved.
“The best and brightest would leave. Graduates, footballers and entrepreneurs would be the first to go, followed by scientists, artists and businessmen and women.
Each person who leaves would not only stop paying income tax but they would also stop buying things from the shops and would stop employing
skilled labour.”

Now as for saying my analysis is asinine I think you are the one that is brain washed and not thinking straight. You are so Labour you cannot see the wood for the trees. Its a good job former Labour Minister Digby Jones has seen the light because you certainly have not and it is a waste of time debating with you as so many others in this thread have realised.

There are multi-nationals who don't care what the tax rate is as they manage to avoid paying it or agreeing sweetheart deals with the government.

This is one of my points, the tories seem as chaotic as labour to me. They've also over the past however long made many miscalculations in interviews and got the figures completely wrong but no one seems to pick up on it. Whether you believe in media bias or not I think it's a fact that the tories never face nearly the same scrutiny on economic policies as labour and people generally just assume that with the economy they always have it under control. Taking a look at the national debt, id suggest the opposite has occurred.

The Centre for Policy Studies is a Conservative mouthpiece whose aims include the rolling back of the state. So they are hardly partisan.

Digby Jones is a Baron who represents big business and has significant vested interests.

I'm not "so Labour". I'm perfectly willing to debate and I look forward to looking at the merits of the Conservative manifesto. I don't agree with everything in the manifesto, but I'm convinced that the Tories have done a bad job on the economy and that austerity and cuts to public spending at times when the economy is depressed is damaging. I'm also convinced that they are liars and that they have used austerity ideologically while claiming it was the medicine we all needed. I also firmly believe that the levels of inequality we have are damaging. I'd vote Lib Dem if I thought they had a better chance of winning than Labour.

Personally I would probably be better off under the Tories in terms of take home pay, at least in the short term, but I believe that I would rather live in a fairer more prosperous country where work is properly rewarded and people pay their fair share.