You turn if you want to.
Either Liz Truss is going to be the most unpopular PM in recorded history or she is about to do a massive U-turn.
It is obvious she will do a U-turn but how she gets there is the interesting bit.
She has already indicated that help for those suffering because of the energy crisis and a real fall in their wages will be top of her agenda. Yet she has spent the last months ruling out options, like windfall taxes, handouts etc, in order to pander to her core vote, the Tory members.
These are the kind of people who think wearing a jumper is the answer to fuel poverty and food banks encourage freeloaders, they also think climate change isn’t happening, Johnson was a giant, Brexit is working and god helps those who help themselves.
Truss has been selling her soul for their votes, now she has to sell them out for the public’s vote. She will, I feel, fail because she will fall between two stools.
The scale of the problem is so huge that she can throw billions at it and still fail, and she doesn’t want to spend too much on it because she wants tax cuts for the well off as well.
Just about the last thing the economy needs is tax cuts for the rich but Tory tunnel vision trumps tenderness or tumbling temperatures.
Today the Resolution Foundation points out that household incomes will fall by 5% this year and 6% next. This alone is unbearable for those who have faced decades of Tory cuts and low wages.
The NHS is on the brink of catastrophe, the property market is not functioning, people are terrified, winter is coming.
Truss cannot do enough to soften these blows especially if billions is wasted on tax cuts.
Truss will therefore fail and she will scar millions in the process. She is too beholden to the Tory core, she has not just sold her soul, she has sold out the country.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.