Timing
Good God, I know you should never give a sucker an even break but Rishi Sunak must be looking at today’s GDP figures and weeping into his muesli.
You call an election hoping that the economy is on the turn and during the campaign find out that it has not grown at all. A bitter blow for a drowning party that was miles behind in the polls and whose message was that we have turned things around, trust us.
Then just a week after the vote consigns you to the greatest defeat in a hundred years, the ONS says the economy is on the road to recovery, at a very encouraging 0.4% and with all major sectors of the economy doing well.
This comes just after England make it to the finals of the Euros.
Let’s face it, if the Tories had called a general election with the vote next Thursday instead of last Thursday, the result could have been very different.
They would still have lost big time but perhaps not so badly.
The Tories record was so bad that they would have always lost but good timing would have helped, and luck was necessary too, Rishi Sunak had neither.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media
Instead, the luck (for once) was ours.