Post by Lord Emsworth on Oct 5, 2021 10:24:30 GMT
Polly's favourite journalist lays into the Tories...
The Conservative conference shows a party in denial while all around is crisis
The Tory party conference seems to be floating along in a sea of delusion. Outside their cocooned security zone, in the real world of petrol shortages and soaring energy prices, a cost of living crisis is “flashing red for the Conservatives”, according to the pollster Public First, “especially among the working-class voters they’ve come to rely on”. There are signs the party’s “red wall” support is starting to crumble, though no one knows if or when there will be a tipping point, as inflation pushes up costs beyond household means this winter.
In denial, ministers witlessly blamed petrol queues on public “panic” – an insult to those desperate to get to work, school or hospital. Next, ministers claimed this had nothing to do with Brexit – even though there are no queues or empty shelves across the Channel.
Oh yes, this is all about Brexit, Boris Johnson suddenly swerved on Sunday: this great disruption was all in the plan, he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr. Brexit heralds “the end of the broken model of the UK economy that relied on low wages and low skill and chronic low productivity”, that used to “reach for the lever of uncontrolled immigration to get people in at low wages”. Expect a “period of adjustment”, says the prime minister. He hopes Brexit, his greatest hit and his forever campaign, can sail him through winter price shocks.
Rest here:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/04/conservative-conference-party-denial-crisis-shortages-universal-credit-cut
Surely people are going to wise up soon?
The Conservative conference shows a party in denial while all around is crisis
The Tory party conference seems to be floating along in a sea of delusion. Outside their cocooned security zone, in the real world of petrol shortages and soaring energy prices, a cost of living crisis is “flashing red for the Conservatives”, according to the pollster Public First, “especially among the working-class voters they’ve come to rely on”. There are signs the party’s “red wall” support is starting to crumble, though no one knows if or when there will be a tipping point, as inflation pushes up costs beyond household means this winter.
In denial, ministers witlessly blamed petrol queues on public “panic” – an insult to those desperate to get to work, school or hospital. Next, ministers claimed this had nothing to do with Brexit – even though there are no queues or empty shelves across the Channel.
Oh yes, this is all about Brexit, Boris Johnson suddenly swerved on Sunday: this great disruption was all in the plan, he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr. Brexit heralds “the end of the broken model of the UK economy that relied on low wages and low skill and chronic low productivity”, that used to “reach for the lever of uncontrolled immigration to get people in at low wages”. Expect a “period of adjustment”, says the prime minister. He hopes Brexit, his greatest hit and his forever campaign, can sail him through winter price shocks.
Rest here:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/04/conservative-conference-party-denial-crisis-shortages-universal-credit-cut
Surely people are going to wise up soon?