"Now they’re pledging to fund the things they’ve been defunding for nine years. “Vote for us,” they say, “and we will replace some of the teachers and police we sacked over the last nine years, when we told you it was essential we cut funding for luxuries such as teachers and police as the deficit was eight times bigger than the moon.”
This attitude would make an exciting new TV game show. First, the Conservatives come round your house and load all your stuff into their van for nine years; then, if you answer some questions correctly, they give back one of your saucepans.
Or maybe they were misunderstood. Maybe in all those speeches about how much money Labour was wasting they were really complaining that Labour hadn’t wasted enough.
For example, when Labour was in office, at no point did they take the wise financial decision to spend £100m on an advertising campaign explaining how we should all get ready to leave something on 31 October when it was obvious that wouldn’t happen. If Labour was sensible, they would have spent £100m on adverts saying: “Get ready for Venus. On 31 March Britain will leave Earth and be part of a new planet. If you’re planning to pop to the Co-op, you will need to complete a document requesting interplanetary travel, and a rocket.”
It’s a brave campaign from the Conservatives, insisting we must trust their leader when at each of the last two elections they’ve said the same, then got rid of the leader themselves.
Maybe their slogan for this election should be “don’t worry, when we’ve decided this one has made a *******s of everything we’ll find some other idiot”."