While voters worry about prices and bills, the contenders are in a wonderland of their own, writes Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
While voters worry about prices and bills, the contenders fret about tax and a ‘war on woke’. They’re in a wonderland of their ownPhotograph: Dominic Lipinski/PAPhotograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA. This leadership race is a strangely unreal world of phantasms. Its candidates inhabit a twilight zone where true belief is all that matters.
These candidates inhabit another planet to ordinary voters. Their articles of faith are far removed from the common ground where general elections are fought and won. Proving they are the right stuff to their own clan is all that matters. Yesterdayin Rother Valley, South Yorkshire, that showed voters overwhelmingly anxious about prices, bills and the crippling cost of living. Yes, it’s the economy, stupid – but on display here we have John Stuart Mill’s “stupid party”.
Back in Toryland, bring on the pious abstract nouns. “Aspiration nation”, Liz Truss promises, as if her party could wish away this most severe economic crisis. Extra money lands this week for those on benefits, but this won’t cover the rise in bills. No candidate has addressed the £20 that
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