There is a deep gap between who is most likely to become the next Prime Minister and There are gaps in the general public. It seems like most - dare I say? – Liz Truss is unreachable.
Truss is not sure what it means to face the horrifying reality of a cost of living crisis in everyday life. It seems that.
She truly understands that the millions of ordinary people who voted for Brexit in 2016 and Boris Johnson in 2019 are looking down at the barrel of personal crisis. It doesn't seem like seen for generations.
Truss' response to the reality of unpaid bills piling up across the country was, well, pathetic.
Let's take a quick look at the situation with some new polls conducted by Public First (where I work).The results of the survey are terrifying. It has become a reading material. Some shocking highlights:
• 26% of people are left with nothing or less at the end of each month (35% of working class voters)
26} • 29 cents have savings that will last less than a month if their primary breadwinner loses their jobs (40% or working class voters)• 18% say they haven't been able to pay for their clothes
• 28% are worried they won't be able to afford a nice Christmas
of these last two One repeats: People worry about being able to get dressed – and that Christmas is out of reach. Simply put,this is a Victorian scale, a Dickensian crisis in its influence.
Still, the Truss team doesn't seem to be listening. Only on Tuesday she was quoted as saying, ``Don't stick to sticky plaster solutions'' on the problem. This is a crazy language. This is the patronage of someone who doesn't seem to understand that working class people are going to be forced to mass boycott bill payments. You seem to be treating the problem like a hypothetical economic problem. If people could wait for her (ridiculous) tax reform to begin, all would be well. They seem to argue that there aren't many.
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Voters won't buy it. Voters know that Covid will allow governments to act quickly and spend billions of dollars on national issues that can damage everyday life. If you could take an almost overnight vacation, you would definitely be doing something on the same scale now.
Again, polls support this hypothesis. Another survey last month found that 43% of people don't think the government is taking the cost of living crisis seriously (her 29% of 2019 Tory voters agreed). increase).
Most damagingly, about 55% believe more can be done to limit rising costs, but choose not to do so (2019 Tory voters 44% of respondents agree).
Ironically, this could be a great opportunity for Sir Keir Starmer and Labor. If Sturmer can present himself as a man with a plan that can ease the widely felt pain, voters will listen.Can we afford a proper Christmas in 2022? If he actually seemed to understand what it meant to worry, they would listen more.
In other words, complex. As announced Monday, Sturmer's proposal to aggressively intervene in the market and put a lot of money into it suggests he understands it. But the speech revealing these plans came way too late. He should have had more of an impact on voters in July, and even he in June, than he did in August.
Starmers need to not only make bold suggestions, show empathy, but also appear to act quickly. Leadership in times of crisis demands urgency. That's definitely what people want from their leaders in this time of national trauma.
Truss seems unable to deliver. Can you starter?
