Last week Ed Davey called on the Conservatives to cancel their Conference and sort out the economic mess they had created.
After days of rebellion, doom and u-turns, I bet they wish they had listened to him.
They aren’t getting the best press, that’s for sure, but then they don’t deserve it.
Kwasi Kwarteng’s feeble attempts at humour in his speech belie any contrition. And I doubt many of those who are now condemned to years of high mortgage payments will feel that either he or Liz Truss truly do get it.
The u-turns on the 45p tax rate and the publication of the OBR forecasts, although major events, are not the only things that need to change.
The Conservatives are showing themselves up as way nastier than they were when Theresa May gave her warning to Conservative Conference a whole twenty years ago. This generation of leaders seem to have taken it as encouragement to become even worse.
For example, party Chairman Jake Berry had this to say to people struggling to pay their bills this Winter:
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