Quintin Jardine's blog

This is a quote from the Conservative Party online newsletter:

‘And Labour’s Jobs Tax came into effect yesterday, meaning every working household will be £3,536 worse off over the course of this Parliament.’

Okay, I would prefer it if Keir, Angela, Rachel, (especially Rachel) etc, weren’t running the country, but when I read simplistic crap like that, I question the ability of their would be successors.

I am part of a working household. I don’t recognise that blanket averaged out figure, but I do realise it’s the biggest number that some newly graduated kid in Tory Central Office could work out. I realise also that in annual terms, it’s £707.20.

So my message to Kemi and her Boy Scout Troop is this: don’t talk down to people who have been involved in politics for longer than any member of the Shadow Cabinet has been alive, smarten your act up and show me you’re serious or …