Peter Hoskin

The Cameroons need to be blunter

You’ve got to hand it to the Brownite spin operation – for once, their bludgeoning approach seems to be working.  The terms they’ve coined, and which are repeated ad nauseum by Labour figures – “Global financial problem which started in America”; “We’re meeting with world leaders”; and even that “Whatever it takes” chestnut – really do seem to be filtering down to the national consciousness, if some of the latest polling on economic competence is anything to go by.

Why?  Well, it’s not because our Dear Leader is economically competent – the past eleven years have put pay to that idea.  I rather suspect it’s because the financial problems we’re facing are so mysterious to all but a Warren Buffet-esque few, that voters – and, crucially, the media – are latching onto the most straightforward representation of it that they can find. 

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