As the Tories’ grip on power after 14 years of failure weakens by the day, they are becoming increasingly desperate in trying to shift the blame, argues Kevin Maguire
Truth is the biggest enemy of the Conservative Party, so Rishi Sunak and his Tory mob are lying and smearing.
Plummeting incomes, falling living standards, rising interest rates, mounting debt and flatlining growth are not the only failures they are desperately trying to hide. Political satire is killed by Chancer of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt bemoaning Britain being stuck in a “low-growth trap”, as if that is nothing to do with nearly 14 years of Tory economic failure.
The inept Conservative Government is scapegoating doctors and nurses for record NHS waiting lists, and Labour and lawyers for net migration of 600,000 that far outstrips our pre-Brexit record as the Channel boats keep sailing.
It was a new low when Oliver Dowden, a Deputy Prime Minister unfit to lace the boots of firefighters, pretended that safety concerns raised about the still-empty Bibby Stockholm barge meant to accommodate some of the arrivals at Portland in Dorset were motivated by the Fire Brigades Union’s affiliation to Labour.