Tory propagandist, Mark Wallace, is only half right when arguing that "acting as voters want", and "seeking to win their votes" by making outlandish promises, is what politicians do (Johnson is already in campaign mode, 13/08/19). How many people voted for a decade of austerity in 2010, with real wages falling, the wealth of the rich increasing inexorably, and the least fortunate in society being forced into homelessness and poverty? Did they vote for the rich paying less taxes, less regulation on landlords so that many would be forced to pay around half their earnings on homes unfit for habitation, or callous benefit cuts for the disabled?
Johnson`s seemingly generous pledges will not even return government spending to anything like it was back in 2010, and will rely on borrowing rather than taxing those most able to pay. Then there is the problem of the prime minister keeping his word, something with which he has huge problems. Heaven help us if enough of the electorate is convinced by Johnson`s electioneering. There will still be austerity, and the UK will be Trump`s poodle, fed crumbs in trade deals, in return for supporting the US`s foreign policy which will inevitably lead to more conflict and unnecessary deaths!
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