Briefing emails have been sent. Some were embargoed, so we have yet to be fed that tit-bit of information and then there are the daily announcements.
We know about the increase in National Insurance contributions to provide more money to the NHS and ... to the NHS and ... somewhere down the line, a bone will be thrown to Care. It will no doubt be re-announced.
They have hinted at a public sector pay increase - or will it be another badge? We are told to expect a new pay policy. Well, we need it! The freeze imposed last November, seems to have been one that does not "follow the market". Rishi sobbed said that it was "unfair" for public sector workers to get a pay rise while many of their private sector counterparts were being furloughed or losing their jobs and yet this government tells the business leaders that they must pay the rate needed to employ the Great British Worker. The usual "one rule for them and another for us" government view.
The old fashioned, rather Empire style economics of grind them down and let them starve was in full swing when they took the £20 back from the poorest. No doubt they will shout when, perhaps, they annouce they are giving it back. I do hope they are not so addicted to attacking the poorest that they keep it from them.
The increase to £9.50 for the minimum wage is a step toward the great declaration of £10 they want to make in the run-up to the next election. But you will still not be able to live on it without in-work benefits. So, how is it that this group of serial liars can call it the "living wage".
In the last few days, they have let out of the bag proposed policy on Transport, Families and Early Years and Education and Skills. And then there are briefings on Arts and Sports, Investment and Military Veterans.
Oh, for the return to parliamentary democracy.
