Manifestly inadequate

Yesterday, the Conservative and UNion Party released their election manifesto at a low key event at Silverstone.

For the waiting journalists there was coffee but no food.

The main promise of the document is more tax cuts.

Unfunded tax cuts to be paid for by trimming the Civil Service and NHS Managers.

All about jam tomorrow.

Of course, the party has been in power since May 2010, almost as long as I have been working for my current employers, and sice 2019 have had an 80 seat majority, with which the party could have driven through whatever policies it wanted.

But instead did almost nothing.

Even its only policy from 2019 election, Brexit, has gone so badly the Government can't even crow about that, only that a Labour win would reverse Brext and take the country back to "square one"

Like that would be a bad thing.

Sunak and Grant Shapp have been reduced to warning that any Government with a large majority is a bad thing.

But of course, as the electorate look round a country and economy that is leterally crumbling, one has to ask, why does a party that has done so little with power in the last 14 years, want to hang on to it for longer? So it can fleece the country, impose more austerity and deport the most desperate people to Rwanda?

As useless as the Conservatives have been in power, their election campaign thus far has been no better, unforced error after unforced error. These are not clever people. Or, these are clever people who think they know all the answers, when wise ones would know they do not.

Still three weeks to go, much more time to make even worse mistakes.