'The King's Speech won't save Rishi Sunak's Tory government'

05 November 2023 , 20:45

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The party that made us poorer has no hope (Image: Getty Images)

The dire state of an ailing economy and woeful state of a crumbling, incompetent, out of touch and weak UK Conservative Government will leave the state opening of Parliament all Ruritanian style and no substance.

Crowns and coronets won’t save a Rishi Sunak on Skid Row, Tory MPs this time next year destined to regret Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s ban on tents for the down and out. Quite simply most voters after 13 years of Conservative miserable misrule aren’t going to buy whatever is typed for a King to read from a golden throne.

It’s the economy, stupid, and like the Tory Party it is running out of steam. The Bank of England puts at 50-50 a 2024 election year recession. Wages, according to TUC number crunchers using ONS official data, are worth £4.50 a week less in real terms than 2010 when the Cons assumed power.

Had wages risen as fast since 2010 as they did during the 13 Labour years from 1997, an average worker would be £125 better off every week. This is big, big lost money.

When most people will be worse off at the next election than the last, paying higher taxes, bills and interest rates, Parliament’s state opening is a sideshow. Plastic promises that in many cases will never be delivered are shallow, desperate propaganda delivered in a posh, privileged voice.

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Culture wars demonising refugees or trans women won’t trump an exacerbated cost of living crisis and neglected public services.

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The King’s Speech is a golden charade for a dying regime. It won’t save Sunak. Nor does it deserve to.

Kevin Maguire