It was nice of David Cameron to warn that we are on the brink of a new financial crash. Thanks for the early heads up, Dave. And thanks again for letting us know that it’s not your fault.
Apparently, it’s all down to Johnny Foreigner this time. Nothing to do with the welfare spending overshoot of £16.5bn because of high rents and low pay; then there’s rising debt, falling tax receipts and you see the so called ‘recovery’ is really a cynically designed temporary housing boom created by Dave’s chancellor.
Being a kind man, Dave is letting us know in advance. What a man. And what a change from the last financial crash, the big worldwide one, which according to Dave was not the rest of the world’s fault: it was all Gordon Brown’s fault. Yes, Gordon brought down the world economy all on his own but now the world economy is going down the dinky again, taking the UK with it, it will be everyone else’s fault, probably Gordon Brown’s.
We need to look carefully at every word Dave says. He is not a strategist. He is not a man with a plan. With his ultra political chancellor George ‘Don’t call me Gideon’ Osborne, Dave is a tactician. They finish every sentence, as instructed by guru Lynton Crosby, by referring to their ‘long term economic plan’, even though they don’t have one. Appearing that they do is far more important. It somehow justifies and vindicates being Robin Hood in reverse by repeating the lie that ‘we are all in it together’. Spin, spin, spin. No substance.
What’s really happening is Osborne’s short term, election-minded economic boom is likely to go tits up sooner than he hoped and he will need someone else to blame. As Labour haven’t been around since 2010, he can’t blame them anymore and he certainly won’t blame himself.
Dave’s, or rather Crosby’s, calculation here is that he wants us to believe the world economy is about to crash but because of his government’s efforts, this incredible recovery which for some reason hasn’t got near ordinary working people, we are in a better position. It wasn’t me, guv.
They must think we are stupid and that’s why the forces of conservatism and the forces of Conservatism in the media are doing Dave’s bidding, even though much of the press hates him (but stays quiet about it, for now).
Austerity hasn’t worked and if Dave wins there will be a lot more of it, loaded mainly on the working poor, as it has been since 2010.
Labour can’t just say that they will deliver fairer austerity because that just means more austerity and by the election I don’t think they will.
We really do need a bit of old fashioned Keynes type investment in this broken economy that works for Dave and his pals while the rest of us might as well go hang.
