This general election is very much turning into an “ask the Conservatives” event. It’s all about the Tories policies or the other parties misrepresentation thereof.

Labour have been attacking the Conservatives National Insurance non-tax rise policy, caliming that not adding this tax on to employers would, somehow, be “taking £6bn out the economy”… when the truth is that the NI tax hike would be doing that, since it is the private sector that is the true economy, not artificial Big Government spending. And the Conservatives have been backed by nearly a hundred business leaders.

The Lib Dems, who don’t appear to have mind their mind up over National Insurance and keep switching between the two positions (which is, of course, standard Lib Dem behaviour), are attacking the Conservatives on the grounds that not raising NI would require a VAT “bombshell”… but didn’t explain why since the Conservatives have made it clear that efficiency savings would be used to cover this £6bn (0.4% of GDP) shortfall in government revenue. This is not a tax cut, but simply not making a tax rise.

It is interesting that it the Conservatives who are the only ones who are actualy putting forward a credible programme. Labour are just attacking the Conservatives and the Lib Dems are just attacking both parties haphazardly, kind of like they are drunkenly lurching around attacking whoever they manage to focus on long enough to get rid of the double-vision.

The Conservatives are the only party who appear to be making a case for government. But that’s not surprising, considering they are the only party capable of governing for the next five years.