Wednesday 4th October

You would have thought, given the disastrous General Election Campaign, given that they are now at best only neck and neck with Labour, given that they are clinging on by their cracked and broken fingernails – that they would have come up with a better slogan than “Building a future that works for everyone”.  At least they have dropped ‘Strong and Stable’….And true to form, in every interview the Cabinet try to slide this truly meaningless slogan in whatever the question is.

So, what does “Building a Country that works for everyone” actually mean?  The Tories have been in Government for seven years.  Seven years in which the rich have got richer, house prices have soared, shares reaching ever inflated levels, food banks blossoming like Autumn Crocuses, Payday Loans now the norm for millions, debt far higher than ever before and for those on Benefits, their income reducing each year, being forced on to Universal Credit which for some inexplicable reason takes six weeks before any money can be paid out.  And all of this with the storm clouds of a bad Brexit lowering on the horizon.  And so the Tories proudly proclaim that they are building a country that works for everyone….except the bottom thirty of forty per cent, that is.

Do they really think that anyone at all actually believes them?  Or are we truly in 1984 territory where words which used to mean one thing now mean whatever they want them to,

At least Labour’s slogan “For the Many, Not the Few” is unambiguous.  It would be almost impossible for any Government to create a Society where everyone thrives and does well.  We know the rich will not voluntarily give up their enormous wealth, or agree to pay more in tax, or to stop hiding their money in tax havens, or to stop ripping off tenants in ‘Rachman’ style housing, or to pay decent wages, or to stop zero-hours contracts.  They will only change if they are forced to.  And if anyone thinks the Tories will make them they really are demented.  The Tories are there to protect the Rich, the Businessmen, the Landlords.  Labour are the only hope for change.

And Boris, in or eventually sacked from the Cabinet, will not be their Saviour either.  They are already a joke without a clown as their leader.