Not a day goes by without more childish opportunism and hypocrisy from Labour
Children’s party
NOT a day goes by without more childish opportunism and hypocrisy from Labour.
It should be above that by now.
Our 0.5 per cent economic downturn in July was, they say, a sign of the “Conservatives’ low-growth trap leaving working people worse off”.
Except the Office for National Statistics blamed wet weather and, more significantly, public sector strikes.
That’s right. Strikes which a Labour Government would actively encourage by handing its militant union allies the power to call them more easily and inflict far more damage when they do, as its deputy leader has announced.
Labour demand to be taken seriously as a Government in waiting.
But even supposedly moderate frontbenchers habitually speak like sixth-form Corbynites.
They are miles ahead in the polls.
What would it have cost them to reflect what the ONS actually said?
The Bank of England, at least, should give it more thought.
August was soggy too — and battered by strikes.
Its figures will doubtless tell a similar grim tale.
Now is not the moment for more interest rate rises.
They have done enough damage.
Flat batteries
POLITICIANS are still wildly out of touch over the affordability of electric cars.
It is insane to assume drivers will adopt them automatically. They won’t.
Their disadvantages are obvious.
Poor ranges, woefully inadequate charging points . . . above all exorbitant prices even for basic models.
Only 17 per cent of new cars sold are electric, the overwhelming majority bought by well-heeled companies.
Forcing makers next year to increase battery car production to one in four is ludicrous if the market isn’t there.
The industry is worried.
But when an expert predicts “those over 55, women, and those on low incomes” may be unable to afford to go electric, he’s underplaying it. It applies to MOST of us.
That 2030 deadline to ban all new non-battery vehicles looks crazier by the day.
Who are ya?
IT’S hard to get to 57 without EVER seeing a football or rugby match.
But Thangam Debbonaire has managed it.
She’s a Labour MP in Bristol, a city with two major footie clubs and a Premiership rugby team.
None of which she’s been to see.
Ordinarily it wouldn’t matter. Being a sports fan isn’t compulsory.
Except Debbonaire is Keir Starmer’s pick as Shadow Sports Secretary.
How rapidly the Left denounced Grant Shapps as unfit to be Defence Secretary having never been a soldier.
But in some future Labour Government, a former cellist would run a vital component of our national life without having the slightest interest in it.
That, Thangam, we call an “own goal”.