If it wasn't tragic it would be funny. Mrs May starts the electoral campaign (which no-one wanted) with high hopes, a slim majority, and an unassailable lead over the opposition. No need to say where it has ended.
We are still waiting to hear whether the DUP will join Mrs May's government... The DUP?! A coalition of chaos indeed (with large lumps of cash sweeteners to help it along).
Strong and stable?! It isn't as if Mrs May and her advisers didn't already know how inaccurate that was. Her flagship policies were regularly launched, and just as regularly sank without trace (remember the workers on company boards? JAMs? No early election? National Insurance? Hinkley Point?). It was only surprising how quickly the social care policy sank - four days after launching it in the manifesto. The first election campaign U-turn in modern history.
It didn't help that she then claimed "nothing has changed". We know politicians are liars (I realise the correct modern term is 'spin' not 'bald-faced lie', but 'spinners', really?), however we expect at least some respect. Claims that black is white (or, say, "nothing has changed") will only be swallowed by the true believers. Of course, even then she didn't give any figures. There would be a cap - to be discussed after the election.
Most damning was the fact that the Dilnot report has recommended a cap and that party members assumed that would be the policy. Instead Mrs May and her secret coterie dreamed this disaster up without consultation, even adding a dig at Cameron for listening to Dilnot. Meanwhile she (for never would the words 'Conservative Party' pass her lips - she told us to vote for her) also announced she was taking winter fuel payments from pensioners. Her staunchest voters given a one-two by their own preferred party.
Did she actually want to lose? Or does she simply have no idea about what ordinary people want?
At least there was a silver lining - those advisers are out.
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