So next week is manifesto week and it will be the moment that the economic with the truths will be revealed in all their misleading mendacity. This is not a political point it is just a statement of fact. No political party will tell the truth to we voters because, as Col. Jessup might have put it…We Can’t handle the truth… . Instead we get half truths and flat out lies and then we complain when we are lied to because we don’t want to accept we can’t have something for nothing. So politicians lie a bit more and this leads us to the situation where the Conservatives have made any number unfunded promises and then accused Labour of a £2k tax bomb. All the time the Conservatives know that they can’t afford the things that they claimed during the election they’re going to introduce without raising taxes themselves.

If you don’t believe that you are being lied to next week then, if you are so inclined, try and find how each of the major parties are going to pay for the increase in long term social care for the elderly, a huge and ever increasing commitment. It will be be a fruitless effort because there won’t be anything. The reason for this is Theresa May tried to be honest about this in the 2017 election and got crucified for it.

Perhaps one day this might change but I doubt it.