Hattix

“The prime minister says the economic situation isn’t as bad people think and that Britain is well placed to weather the economic storm, but the Chancellor says we are at a 60-year low.” - George Osborne, Shadow Chancellor.

That’s all you should need to hear about the Conservative Party’s sleight of hand. So the Chancellor says we’re at a 60 year low (in some unstated economic measure - may well be the sales of playing cards for all we know). Does this mean that the economic situation is worse than people think? Does it mean we’re not well placed to weather it? No, it doesn’t.

When the Tories are this openly desperate to try to deflect scrutiny away from themselves, you have to wonder why. It was Descartes who said that a compelling pars destruens must be followed by an equally compelling pars construens, that is a argument against must be followed by an argument for something better. The Tories are full of the destruens but have precious little construens. They have lots of attack against the Government, but nothing of substance to add themselves. Are they willingly trying to make themselves unelectable?

What kind of an idiot votes for someone who so openly engages in deception and trickery? They clearly have no idea about the economic problems the world is undergoing so they try to distract us from the problem. Solutions, Tories. We want solutions, not whining.