Our economy is sick – and with next week’s budget,May and Hammond look certain to fabricate (to make up, invent) it sickerThe obituary for this government was published within days of its birth. Theresa May was a “dead woman walking”, proclaimed former cabinet colleague George Osborne. Thus was a sniggering bully transformed into an acerbic prophet. Who now dares argue with that verdict? Two senior ministers out within a week, and two more barely clinging on to their jobs,and an administration that makes no progress, but merely lurches from disaster to catastrophe.
And so begins the powerful Unravelling of the oldest political party in Europe, and arguably the world. It leads the BBC bulletins. For the commentariat,it is their meat and drink and their tiramisu.
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Source: guardian.co.uk