Had the last government actually been conservative, they would have walked the election and we wouldn’t have 4 and 3/4 years of further misery to look forward to
The key in your phrase is misery, it is absolutely spot on MISERY. However the feelgood factor was extinguished in a extremely short period of time because between GE 2019 and Covid was only a matter of month's ! The population never had a time to celebrate the success of their sacrifices of 8 -9 years of Austerity.
They say "never tell lies unless you are one of the unique people who have a memory that can remember ALL the untrue facts" .
Today AT THE Labcon, in the orchestrated applause and ovations [ there is always these plants in the audience to stimulate reactions ] we saw both lies and hypocritical comments! The so called £22bn black hole [ actually at this moment in time is only £13bn because the other £9bn is the result of money not yet collected, and will be attributed additional income from the up to July4th LINE, ITS TO HELP TOWARD THE FUNDING to fund the things that the £22bn is supposed to cover.
Labour wont have a prosperous continuation of the economy/ growth that is / has been happening until July 2024.
BEAR IN MIND figures like inflation/ interest/ gdp/ economy are published 3 - 4 months later than they represent!
Housing Market........ since the energy crisis £trn's of building products have been in short supply ...what didnt help was Covid BUT THAT WAS A POSITIVE, 000's people used the time and the fact they couldnt really spend a lot of their income so did Home improvements and supplies were seriously run down.. then energy crisis and prices rocketed [ one instance was roof tiles, local to me a person had paid £7500 to have roof done [ only paid deposit apparently ] waiting time in early 2022 was stated at 3-4 month's good ! because chance weather better. Finally done in summer of 2023 at cost of £14,000!
Another friend retired as he was a building site manager and work dried up because lack of materials all a very miserable time March 2020 till March 2024, and it started getting better ..................... but the damage was 4 years of misery takes longer than a few months to wear off! ...................................................
ps ..... ONE OF THE BREAD CRUMBS DROPPED TODAY! ..... Tories passed over £2bn from the current house building department! .. more than enough to pay the heating bills!