Tell you what made me laugh this morning, Labour's announcement that all NHS staff will be given a pay rise and that tuition fees for training will be cancelled. What planet are they actually on?
No-one disagrees with the fact that frontline NHS staff don't really get paid enough, or work too many hours for the pay they do get. No arguments at all. However, the country simply does not have the money to pay them any more, not without either sacrificing something else or increasing taxes to pay for it. This is basic KS1 maths, if you can't afford it you can't have it. Let's not forget we also have a thumping great Brexit bill to pay for in the next couple of years which we'll need to fund from somewhere.
This is as blatant an empty promise to win votes from people who are too stupid to realise it cannot be done as easily as that as I've ever seen in an election. And yet, the Tory response was just to say that only they can guarantee a strong NHS by having a strong economy: Whilst I don't disagree with this, it's hardly going to make anyone suddenly vote for them. Why they haven't got someone out there to simply ask the obvious "How will you pay for this?" question to Corbyn, I've no idea. Really poor PR.