According to James Forsyth, one important task for the Tories at their conference is to show that they understand the squeeze on people’s living standards and are doing something about it.
That's a hopeless task. Government policy is to make energy dearer, when it could be cheaper.
They are deliberately driving more households into fuel poverty, and genially squeezing the plebs. (Energy bills matter more to poorer people.)
I can't think of a thing they are doing to mitigate the squeeze on living standards. But if you can, pop over to James's piece and leave a comment.
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I blame touchy-feely politics. Nobody has any great sympathy with people they don’t know personally, so Cameron et al cannot possibly sympathise with ordinary people, however much they pretend otherwise.
To my mind it is this pretence that makes modern politics so infantile.
Instead they should focus on what they can do, which is allow people to live their own lives within the law and with as little direct interference as possible.
with as little direct interference as possible
You do realise you're depriving politicians of their raison d'etre? :)
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