They aren’t exactly ‘sure-footed’ are they, unless one considers that well and truly stepping in the dog poo with both feet over the WFA shambles is being ‘sure-footed.’
We can’t be sure whether or not all this feel bad factor they have been remorselessly feeding all and sundry is a front for softening us up for a truly ghastly budget that may not be considered ‘so bad after all’, or whether it will be packed full of Starmer and Reeves ‘tough choices.’
I believe that quite a number of those on the Labour benches feel that the gloom and doom has been overdone, so if Starmer and Reeves have any political nous they will have to come up with something to cheer up the troops at their conference and also the general public at large.
I am no political strategist, but if you want to grow the economy, which Reeves says she does, then the movers and shakers of industry have to have the confidence to take risks, invest capital and try and improve productivity. Likewise, if Mr.and Mrs. Joe Bloggs are to spend their hard earned dosh, they also have to have confidence that ‘hard choices’ aren’t going to screw their household budgets.
Hopefully, a reduction in interest rates will come before too long and help both industry and also those youngsters looking to purchase a property. In the meantime, I dare say S and R have had a harsh lesson in realising that being in Government is a damn’ sight harder than it is sniping from the Opposition benches.
