Now Johnny Mercer is using the "NEW HOSPITALS" definition technique loved by Tories.
🔷40 "new hospitals" promised with Brexit were redefined by the Tories into "a new additional building or refurbishment".
🔷Not new hospitals at all then.
🔷And so Mercer is ranting that HIS definition of "homelessness" is right even though it differs to that of the charity Shelter and all others. He would, wouldn't he?
🔷Mercer now claims when he says "homelessness" it means "sleeping rough".
🔷Except that isn't the definition used by everyone working within the Homelessness arena.
🔷It is "the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing."
🔷Using the correct definition, veteran homelessness rose by 14% this year, in contradiction to Mercer's 'promise' in the House of Commons.
🔷Like James Cleverly recently said he called Stockton MP 'a sh*t MP' rather than Stockton "a sh*thole" (he did call that fine town by that name), this group of Tories seem to believe their claims and definitions simply because they say them!!
And here is the evidence @JohnnyMercerUK said in Feb 2023, he'd end veterans' homelessness by the end of the year, and we could "hold him to it.
It seems he didn't mean either of those phrases.
Tories eh?
On this day in 1805, the Royal Navy defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off Cape Trafalgar. The triumph is decisive yet costly; Britain's best admiral, Horatio Nelson, is fatally wounded on the quarterdeck of his flagship, HMS Victory. #TrafalgarDay
RIGHT NOW in 1805, British warships led by HMS Victory are doing battle with a combined French & Spanish fleet off Cape Trafalgar. The cannonade is so furious it can be heard 50 miles away in Cadiz.
Radio Warsaw is making its final broadcast before Nazis occupy the city: "Hello. Can you hear us? This is our last message. Fraternal greetings to Polish troops fighting on Hel Peninsula and all others, wherever they are. Poland is not dead! Long live Poland!"