Tory Manifesto - The Best Deception Since D Day. - A TR Brexit Special

I had to laugh yesterday as the Tory Manifesto was launched, not just at Boris's jokes and delivery, but at the manifesto itself.

Boris has been campaigning on spending pledge after spending pledge, tax cuts for those between 50,000 and 80,000 and several other campaign pledges that had the IFS worried about the achievablity of the Tory spending plans with regards to fiscal discipline.

What Boris has actually done is talked up a lot of spending and frightened both Labour and the Limp Dims that this is all about spending, and spending big and both Labour and the Limp Dim's have bought that bluff and have believed that the only way to beat the Tories was to outspend them, and outspend them by a clear margin.

Yesterday's announcement by Labour of 58bn of additional borrowing to compensate WASPIE women was because their manifesto hadn't landed and they were terrified that they needed something else to both "wow" the voters and hope to upstage the Tory manifesto launch.

The speech by Boris was policy light and joke heavy and was from the the long list of spending pledges the press had been led to believe. In fact the additional spending amounts to just £3bm and now the Labour party are promising to spend £28 for  every £1 the Tories are going to spend.

It now frames the election as the feckless Labour and Limp Dim's against the fiscally responsible Tories.

There were in fact so few spending pledges that as Boris walked off stage one journalist shouted "What's in your manifesto Boris?" To which Boris replied "Why don't you read it"

Of the 50 pages 25 pages are pictures in comparison to a Labour manifesto of 91 pages which now makes it the "Longest suicide note in history"

The fundamental fact here, is that Boris has played a D Day style deception, he's convinced his enemies that its a mass spending election, and that bait was taken by both Labour and the Limp Dim's who have pushed their spending to levels that will see them classified as reckless.

What an incredible strategy, and brilliantly pulled off. A master stroke.