Brace for a new age of grim, grinding wallet-emptying Conservative austerity.
Tories who crashed the economy are putting up your taxes and reducing your services.
The £55-billion hit is a doom loop, deepening and lengthening the recession we're in.
Still digging a black hole while claiming to fill it in horribly repeats disastrous mistakes of 2010.
The Cons throttled growth then too by raising taxes and slashing investment.
So this is deja vu, all over again.
Doing the same and expecting a different result is insanity.
High inflation, wages losing value, mortgages rocketing, searing energy bills, living standards plummeting and Britain's economy shrinking is a damning Tory record.
Covid and Putin play their pernicious part but Brexit and Conservative mistakes were heavy hammer blows too.
Pick pocket Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt adds insult to injury by expecting praise for sticking to promises on pensions and benefits.
Labour's former Bank of England economist, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves, made mincemeat of Hunt, PM Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives.
Britain suffering much, much worse than other major nations illustrates this is about 12 years of failure.
Liz Truss wasn't an aberration. She was 44 days in more than a dozen years of pay gloom, wages worth less today than in 2010.
From Cameron to Sunak via May, Johnson and briefly Truss, it's been pain without gain.
Kicking a General Election down the road until around this time in 2024 is unlikely to save the Conservatives.
Voters gave them a chance and are paying a high price as a result.
Sunak and Hunt's difficult decisions proving expensively difficult for everybody else replacesTory a sugar rush with Conservative iron rations.
The public recognises the Tories are bad for the economy.
