They will just reach for the old tried and trusted favourites.
Just last week at PMQs, we saw the overdue reappearance of the old ‘it’s the fault of the last labour government‘ (12years and counting). An oldie but still a goody if you’ve got a gullible enough audience.
Rising fuel and food costs can soon be passed off as a result of the pandemic and now the Ukraine invasion and war.
Rising interest rates can be passed off as the result of any of the above.
Some or all of it of course can always simply be attributed to bloody foreigners, that’s always a vote winner no matter what.
Remember, we are talking about swathes of extremely politically illiterate voters.
Brexit has now been swept almost entirely from the public consciousness so they will not have to even think about that as its worst excesses are nowhere to be seen unless you are a farmer, a fisherman, an international trucker, an importer/exporter or you work for P&O.
For the moment anyway.
A opinion piece in Farmers Weekly sums up Eustace's farms policy, but you could apply it to prices, taxes, inflation generally:
Inaction is the plan.
This government are loving it. Higher rates, higher income through tax.
A simple equation, and you aren’t in it.
And more people being forced onto the highest tariffs. Like the oil companies energy companies are making a killing and laughing all the way to the bank and it is the poor who are being hit the hardest.Some of it seemed to be "the failed companies need the costs covering, so you're going to help by adding £xxx to your bills"
And more people being forced onto the highest tariffs. Like the oil companies energy companies are making a killing and laughing all the way to the bank and it is the poor who are being hit the hardest.
Bbbbut we are giving you all this money, £150 off your council tax and £200 off your energy bill(which will have to be paid back but they get back more than they pay out) the Government will say. Yes but that is our money anyway and it goes to the energy companies.
I have said before that our son works at one of the largest energy suppliers in the procurement area of gas and sees the money being made by these companies.
Dowden - Minister for Paperclips and Plastic Rulers I think - another weird fantasist
Brought a lump to my throat….but that turned out to be my breakfast coming back up!
I hope the delightful mr Dowden and his no doubt equally delightful offspring will go for a nice stroll round some of the slightly less calm suburban parts of Liverpool, or Newcastle or Glasgow or London and admire how instead of lovely privet hedges they have far more food banks than you unfortunate folk of Hertfordshire, and that they can enjoy the freedom given to them by this value loving government to be hungry.
I‘m off to the garden centre now to buy some privet hedges to demonstrate my love for freedom and British values
Dowden - Minister for Paperclips and Plastic Rulers I think - another weird fantasist
He tweets this without a hint of irony the cheeky bastard
He shouldn't have fucked that pig as well...He knows no shame , without him there are no need for foodbanks
He shouldn't have fucked that pig as well...
The man who destroyed this country with a referendum to placate his backbenchers. Cameron was so arrogant to think he'd win. He then fucks off to live in France to avoid the consequences.
Not to mention over the moon profits for BP and Shell. BP chairman just had his pay doubled to something like £4.4m.Worst government I've lived under.
National Insurance up
Income Tax up
Council Tax Up
Inflation through the roof
No movement on fuel duty
They're doing nothing to help with inflation, whilst writing off fraud from during Covid.
Aaaah…but you will get to see miracles performed- like making brexit work for all of us, and enriching everyone.Worst government I've lived under.
National Insurance up
Income Tax up
Council Tax Up
Inflation through the roof
No movement on fuel duty
They're doing nothing to help with inflation, whilst writing off fraud from during Covid.
were you born in 2010?Worst government I've lived under.
National Insurance up
Income Tax up
Council Tax Up
Inflation through the roof
No movement on fuel duty
They're doing nothing to help with inflation, whilst writing off fraud from during Covid.
And whatever it is, it will be a small part of something they already took from usThey’ll give us something, soon, just nothing that will have a dramatic effect.