Would have liked to see Marr respond to his claim that we’re bouncing back the strongest with the fact that our economy had the biggest hit by far so the bounce back had to be the strongest, and also the fact that we’re the only major economy still smaller than pre pandemic.
Yep, absolutely right. As I said, boasting about the biggest bounce back is another way of saying we were hit the hardest in the first place. And that was thanks to the inept handling of the pandemic by this government.There would always be a bounce back with everything fully opening up and households having money to burn with the savings amassed of the last 18 months. Now we have to put the foot on the throttle and keep the economy moving, we are now hit with supply chain issues and labour shortages. The momentum is stalling.
To Party donors in the form of multi million pound contracts for unfit for purpose PPE etcI thought all that money we would be saving from not being in the EU they had on that bus would be fixing the Nhs? Where’s all that money going?
There would always be a bounce back with everything fully opening up and households having money to burn with the savings amassed of the last 18 months. Now we have to put the foot on the throttle and keep the economy moving, we are now hit with supply chain issues and labour shortages. The momentum is stalling.
Some may have managed to save but there will be many that didn't.
So even his bounceback claim is pretty weak
Are the Tory party turning on him?View attachment 27390
From today’s Times.
I wouldn't say the party as a whole is turning on him. What I suspect you have now is the first indications of a party having to start to govern the country without being able to resort to the excuses of Brexit and the Pandemic, though the latter will continue to be as much a trope as ‘under the last Labour government’. As such, you’ll have MPs from across the country who are now getting it in the neck from their constituents and who are uneasy about what’s happening.Are the Tory party turning on him?
I wouldn't say the party as a whole is turning on him. What I suspect you have now is the first indications of a party having to start to govern the country without being able to resort to the excuses of Brexit and the Pandemic, though the latter will continue to be as much a trope as ‘under the last Labour government’. As such, you’ll have MPs from across the country who are now getting it in the neck from their constituents and who are uneasy about what’s happening.
I posted the cartoon as it struck me as remarkably personal and also on an issue that I think Johnson might be seriously underplaying. We’ll see.