‘Britain is the world’s sick nation – it’s embarrassing and rancid Tories are to blame’
It’s the economy, stupid.
Keir Starmer’s learning the US campaign slogan that Bill Clinton used to win power.
Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt are discovering it too, the Tory PM and Chancellor finding voters punish impoverishing politicians.
Labour’s offer isn’t yet exciting or a deal clincher, leaving work ahead for the party to show voters how it would improve their lives.
But the UK Conservatives are demonstrating that governments lose elections more than oppositions win them.
Come Autumn of next year, the period Tory new chair Greg Hands effectively confirmed the next election will be held, people will be able to take revenge on the Tories.
The worst fall in living standards on record in Britain isn’t only down to Covid and Putin.
Most of the world also suffered those twin calamities.
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What the Tories won’t be able to explain is why we are hurting more after their 13 years of increasingly limp excuses.
Our constipated economy avoiding recession by a technicality, flatlining the last three months following a dip the previous quarter, is no cause for celebration.
It is an international embarrassment, Britain the sick nation of Europe and the globe.
The Tories will carry the can when the UK economy’s still -0.8% smaller than before the pandemic, an unparalleled failure when every other G7 industrial country is larger.
Household energy bills that were typically £1,200 at the start of last year soaring to £3,000 this Spring from £2,500 will be another nail in the Tory coffin.
They were never a party of economic competence yet once could pretend to be. No longer.
The NHS ailing and sleaze will be major election issues.
Rancid Tories will play migrant and trans cards, as they often do.
But when it comes down to pounds and pence they’ll pay the price for making voters poorer. To clinch a decisive victory Labour would have to stop playing safe.
Offering real change rather than focusing on reassurance.
However we cut it, though, all the polls pointing to the Conservatives losing credibility and votes for treating people as stupid on the economy.