The Daily Express' series of articles featuring my comments appears to be continuing, with a new one out yesterday. The sub-heading was:
KEIR STARMER is poised for a huge boost in support as Boris Johnson is warned he could oversee economic "catastrophe" which "threatens the survival of the Conservative Party".
And as they noted:
The UK has entered recession after a 20.4 percent contraction between April and June. The UK's slump is also one of the biggest among advanced economies, according to preliminary estimates. Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned last month that the recession would represent a difficult time for the country. Despite this, the Chancellor has shown no intent to extend the furlough scheme once more, with the deadline currently set for the end of October. At the start of August, up to 4.5 million people in Britain remained furloughed, according to the Resolution Foundation. A total of 9.6 million people have benefited from the scheme since its launch in March, at 1.2 million companies, at a cost of £34billion to the exchequer so far. Taking the decision not to extend would be disastrous, according to Richard Murphy of Tax Research UK, who said the Labour Party could capitalise on the impending disaster. He told Express.co.uk: "How does a Government lose a 26-point lead in six months? Well he has.
They then note me saying:
"Is that trend going to stop? There's a hard core of Tory voters, there always has been, but the swing voters are swinging heavily against the Conservative Party because they know they are at risk.
And they don't believe this Government is protecting their health, and soon they are going to believe it isn't protecting their jobs or their homes, and at that point the Conservatives are in deep trouble."
They add:
Since Mr Murphy's comments, a YouGov Westminster voting intention survey in late August had the Tories ahead by seven points with 43 percent of the vote.
However, with the furlough scheme soon coming to an end, he believes the Conservatives could hand Labour the upper hand.
Mr Murphy added: "The day the unemployed realise their children are impacted by this, the Government will fear that those people start protesting."They'll say 'you could have kept us in work and our homes, but you didn't because you prioritised the national debt.'
"Those people could then vote Labour, at every level this threatens the Conservative Government's survival.
“If they don't extend the furlough scheme it will be catastrophic, both politically for the Conservatives and economically for the country.
"If he [Rishi Sunak] goes back, and he is signalling this, to 'sound finance' — by which he means prioritising the debt, he will write the death knell of this Conservative government."
Finally they note:
On Keir Starmer, Mr Murphy claimed that the Labour leader must be ready to capitalise if the Government's economic policy fails.
He added: "Have we seen the true Starmer yet? No. But he needs to be ready to go into overdrive when the Government goes into meltdown."
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Even Goldman Sach’s economists are willing to point out in no uncertain terms that the Brexit Psycho-Cult which has the Tory party and many voters in its grip is going to be an unmitigated disaster for the country and Goldman Sachs knows all about how to create disasters after the GFC experience!
“The blow to the U.K. of failing to reach a trade deal with the European Union would be more costly than dealing with the coronavirus, Goldman Sachs economists have warned.
In fact, the investment bank said the fallout of a no-deal outcome was likely to be ‘two to three times larger’ than that of ‘the worst pandemic witnessed in post-war history.’ ”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/15/brexit-costs-would-be-higher-than-coronavirus-for-the-uk-goldman-says.html
For once, I agree with them
Voters may well get even more annoyed when they realise replacement tyres for cars, trucks and buses, which usually come from China and India, both currently suffering from Covid problems and floods, won’t be coming, partly because they aren’t being manufactured but not least because Brexit proper will make it next to impossible to import anything. We face a prospect, then, of no trucks to transport anything, no anything for them to transport, no buses to anywhere and no tyres or spares for the car… it could be we’re going to be a third-world country much sooner than anyone’s anticipated.
According to David Cameron the government’s great performance in dealing with the pandemic is in part due to his austerity helping it to be more prepared.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/austerity-made-uk-better-prepared-22695272
Fantasists are very dangerous
David Cameron couldn’t tell you why the UK operates a reserves based monetary system and what the implications of this are in regard to funding public goods and services. In other words yet another pig-ignorant public school boy who got elected by voters of the same ilk!
I dont think David Cameron is entirely ignorant of porcine affairs.
Well, I wouldn’t personally read the Daily Express, and I would always be a bit suspicious of their motives ,,, but those are irrelevant – really good you are getting a voice out there to the public! And, of course, the more people that see your name and words, and the more frequently, the more likely people will listen on other things you might get the opportunity to talk about in the future. Roll on influencing public opinion!!
Maybe….
I admit to surprise at this one
A one hour interview has resulted in three articles so far
Double edged. Good to get your message to a new audience, but the Express is known for using crackpot experts, so being seen as one of theirs would do more harm than good to your reputation