Dear God, is this all they have?
I was going to write about yesterday’s events or even the prospects for Jeremy Hunt, but then John Redwood came on the radio.
His proposals for supply side reforms that will boost growth and presumably reassure the markets were: fracking and more food production. The aim being to make us independent of risky foreign supplies.
We will just have to hope the markets have better things to do on a Saturday than to listen to this stuff.
What ambassadors are writing about the UK in their weekly dispatches does not bear thinking about, but quoting Redwood would at least bring a little light humour into an otherwise appalling read.
This is all they have, decades of pursuing a dream of low regulation, low pay and low tax and they find that all they can think of that might help is fracking and dig for victory. Neither of which has anything to do with growth.
But the tragedy is that they will keep digging a deeper hole for the country. Until they go there is no hope of recovery.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.