Voters will prise open the eyes of politicians

AS WE face a bleak winter of chilly homes and screaming rises in costs and prices, the politicians are wailing, “Not our fault. No one could have foreseen this.” In a word – poppycock. Six years ago the very shrewd were warning that if we did not do something disaster must follow. Three years ago even those who could work out which side of the sky the sun rises were saying the same thing – and being published. But they were all rebuffed.

Let me skim through the warning signs that were there for all to see, but not the Government or the bureaucrats. It was plain the once envied and enviable NHS needed urgent reform to take a claymore to the huge army of jobsworths whose dead hand was choking the life out of it. Now, too late, we are told that is going to happen. Really? I’ll believe it when I actually see it.

When Covid struck the witless capons in office relied totally on the Sage Committee, who with their society-crippling lockdown recommendations managed damage to our country that may never be repaired. There were shrewder voices, like those of David Frost and Jonathan Sumption, warning what would happen but they were ignored completely. The Swedish no-lockdown policy caused Sweden to suffer half our devastation.

It was crazy to run down our native resources of power-generation – coal, oil, gas, nuclear – and make us dependent on foreigners. Now we pay through the nose for power sources that lie beneath our feet.

Rishi Sunak’s so-called Money Tree – meaning spend, spend, spend money we didn’t have in reserve but had to borrow or print – has left us with truly crippling debts. As expenditures vitally needed for and by us all were vetoed, we went on pumping money into vanity projects like carbon net zero by 2050 and HS2 – a duplicate railway from London to Birmingham costed at £106billion and still rising.

If the Tory Party slumps to voting defeat in 2024 they will have no one to blame but themselves. The fact that Labour would have done the same is not the point. Voters blame those who were in power at the time.