A period of silence....

Apparently the latest Labour market statistics covering the three months to June, are “a blow to Starmer”. Which since they cover the last few months of the Tory administration is hard to fathom.

The fact is that the Tories have left a complete mess and are trying to blame the new government before they have even tried to heal the wounds left by their own shattering defeat. Which they seem to find impossible to even recognise, let alone accept.

As someone wrote on Twitter earlier today, if the Tory government saved all that money with 14 years of austerity, where has it all gone?

The fact is that the Tory party is stuck in a groove, like a record that plays just a few notes again and again.

All the candidates for the leadership still insist that they can cut taxes, increase defence spending and pay for it all with “savings”.

A “policy” that has just been rejected by millions of voters and which they are going to find in opposition will always now illicit the question “What savings, where?”

The defeat of the Tory party was not just an angry reaction to their wasted 14 years, it was a recognition that trickle down economics, austerity and cakeism were cons.

But the arrogance of the current Tory leadership means they cannot accept that they should shut up and lick their wounds.

The Tories don’t realise that they have been seem for what they are, as Clement Attlee once said “a period of silence on your part would be welcome” .

But the old hands and wise heads who could tell the party to be quiet and spend a few years developing some new, sensible, well funded policies were purged, and purged by Boris Johnson at that, years ago.

The rump left is incapable of reforming itself, because it thinks it is still right, about everything.

It is hardly surprising that the Lib Dems are now targeting another trance of Tory seats, they can smell blood.

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