In key marginals, a Conservative election leaflet masquerading as an NHS prescription has been posted to voters in the last few days. It’s a deception that’s already caused outrage.
But whilst the version reported on so far, sent to Tory/Lib Dem battleground seats like Richmond Park, Oxford West, and Cheltenham, is relatively bland, openDemocracy has seen a second version of this leaflet. And that version reveals a darker story about Johnson’s Conservative Party. It shows just how blatantly the Tories are using immigration to neutralise concerns about the NHS – and, worse, how they are using concerns about the NHS to stoke the division and racism that the Tories appear to think will benefit them electorally.
This second version of the Tories ‘NHS’ leaflet (pictured below) has been sent to voters in Tory/Labour battlefields in the North and Midlands, including Middlesborough, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Leigh, Dewsbury, Derby, Coventry, Crosby, and my own home town of Stroud.
