The PM is a disaster, the Tories are out of their depth, the Cabinet are incompetent, all while Brexit squirms out of control and the poor take a battering. It’s like the Bash Street Kids are in control. But this joke isn’t funny any more
ahead of the facts and that’s not always a bad thing.
Frequently we need to decide first on change and then sketch out the detail – it’s how we have always been governed. But no detail came.
We were then treated to conflicting views of what Brexit meant . The three Cabinet ministers for Brexit – Liam Fox, Boris Johnson and David Davis – all seemed to have their own strategy. Last week we were told that Brexit will not be a cliff edge.
“People don’t want a cliff edge, they want to know with some certainty how things are going to go,” said May – and then gave no certainty.
The worry is that the phrase “cliff edge” was even used.
Then her second-in-command, Philip Hammond, revealed that Brexit would cost the UK economy £59billion. It is roughly equivalent to the entire amount of public money spent in Scotland in a year.
Tory Brexiteers slammed their own government for this figure, forcing the agency who came up with it to defend the number.
Basically, said the Off ice for Budget Responsibility, we asked the Government for detail on Brexit in order to make a good economic forecast but they gave us nothing so this is a best guess.
The working-class people of this country are about to be beaten black and blue by a government simultaneously cutting budgets while pursuing Brexit without a plan – combined, these are a lef t hook and right punch which Muhammad Ali would be proud of.
The Resolution Foundation think tank was set up by a Tory – they are not lefties with a grudge but people genuinely committed to improving lives for the less well paid.
They report that the freeze on benefits and rising inflation could mean the bottom third of earners get hit harder than in the years after the banking crash.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies have acquired almost god- like status in British politics – trusted opinion based on data. They say the outlook for the bottom third of earners is “dreadful” – and the pain could last a decade.
The poor people of this country are being made to pay for another mess by the elite.
Brexit is creating economic uncertainty, which is forcing the UK to be cautious, which means no let-up on budget cuts.
May is overseeing a catastrophe which will rip through the social fabric of the UK.
The poor will pay, those on benefits will suffer – the social make-up of the UK will experience the kind of stresses which usually are the result of war.
It cannot go on.