We need a strong and sustainable economy
Yes, we do and that's why I'm not voting Tory. The deficit has shot up much higher than it did under Labour, and it's due to their financial mismanagement.
They appear to have no concept of the difference between spending as investment, and spending as unnecessary expense.
Most of their cuts are ideological, not practical and end up costing far more than they are saving, and that's reason the economy is doing badly.
I seem to remember someone asking in parliament about what kind of cost-benefit analysis had been done before making legal aid cuts, and they admitted they hadn't done one, and now court costs are up much higher than they're saving on legal aid. Just plain stupid.
It's a bit like me saying money is tight so I'm going to tighten my belt, so I decide to cut childcare and transport as some of my biggest expenses.
And then when I can't get to work or have someone to look after my children when I do, then the fact that I'm no longer earning a salary just can't be helped because I'm being responsible by tightening my belt and cutting expenses.
To use another analogy, the common metaphor is that you need to fix the roof while the sun shines, but you need to fix it if it rains too.
If you don't because it's 'too expensive', all that happens is it ends up more expensive in the long run because you left it too long and now you also have to replace all your belongings due to rain damage.
The Tories are like Trump -- really good at shouting how good they are at the economy, but there is no actual evidence.