Spännande brittisk politik

På det konservativa partiets konferens nyligen utlovade partiledaren David Cameron sänkta skatter. Effekten kom direkt berättar The Times:

David Cameron’s multibillion-pound tax cuts for Britain have propelled the Conservative party back into its first opinion poll lead for almost three years. In a dramatic vindication of the prime minister’s £7 billion pledge to families , a YouGov poll showed last night that he had knocked Labour off the top spot.

Bagehot-kolumnisten i The Economist konstaterade att Labourledaren Ed Miliband inte lever i samma värld som väljarna:

Mr Miliband, who collects his ideas more from left-wing pamphlets than strolls in the park, misjudged the nature of the backlash. He anticipated rising demand for a bigger state role in the economy, in the form of regulation, public ownership and a thousand other of the social-democratic interventions he had always hankered after. Yet most Britons, even members of the hard-working “squeezed middle” whose problems he aptly describes, are suspicious of an agenda that appears hostile to free enterprise and personal responsibility, the intellectual foundation of every administration they have elected for 35 years. They also have a more jaundiced view of government than Mr Miliband. Most blame politicians, as well as bankers, for the crisis—in particular the free-spending Labour politicians in power at the time. Again, that includes Labour voters, fewer than half of whom trust their leader to run the economy.