The Sun may well keep us guessing until Election Day. Who knows. I doubt they'll give a full Tory endorsement though.
The Sun ought to endorse Labour, if only on the economy but they criticise Labour's lack of reform of public services. They even admit that schools and hospitals were grossly underfunded under the Tory era - so why they'd even contemplate taking Britain backwards beggers belief. Yesterday, they talked about the good, the bad and the ugly of Blair's years - and even print-wise the good outweighed either the bad or the ugly. Today, its the NHS. One thing yesterday's editorial said, which made me chuckle, was that Labour would peddle a 'myth' that the Tories are economic incompetents. Sorry - but if unacceptable levels of unemployment; higher rates of inflation, interest rates, mortgage rates; business bankruptcies and negative equity smack of economic competence then I'm Margaret Thatcher! Britain's economy is the 'healthy man' of Europe. Sustained economic growth is the key to national and personal prosperity and investment in our public services; I'll accept, however, that taxes have increased modestly to provide much needed investment in our public services. Labour did inherit a relatively strong economy from the Tories - but had they been still running the show, true to form, the boom would have soon gone bust
The Sun are closer to the Tories (sorry, I mean Conservatives) on Europe, tax, law and order and immigration/asylum (the 'panic'/'fear' issues where myth often distorts the reality) - but are friendly to Labour on just about everything else
Dave
