A below-the-line comment under today's political live feed in today's Guardian:

"She doesn't have a desire to create growth. She doesn't know what that even is (hint, you need strong trading links, reputation for trustworthiness, a well educated, healthy, motivated population, a fully funded state system [sic], regulated businesses, protected environments and suchlike). All she has is demented reveries about growth magically arriving and handing her party a fit and healthy country, not the knackered, cheated, plundered, internationally isolated basket case they've made it into."

Couldn't agree more. And even "Mad Nad" Dorries thinks that Truss is lurching to the right over her refusal to confirm that benefits will rise in line with inflation. Oh, the irony...

As a consequence of the freezing of the personal tax allowance over several years and the cancelling of the NI increase, among other things, the top ten percent of earners will now benefit by well over £2000 per annum. The poorest will benefit by thirteen quid. Please don't tell me that the Tories don't know what they're doing.

Note: as things stand, my teacher's pension, which is index-linked, as well as my old age pension, will rise by about 10% in April. Mrs Steve, the same. Unless Truss hurries up and agrees to upgrade benefits in line with prices, UC claimants will get about half that percentage on a much smaller amount (and who knows how much more stringent a sanctions regime...)

Well we comfy pensioners generally turn out to vote, and there's a rich vein of Tory voters contained therein. On the other hand, the very few UC claimants who vote Tory, if they even vote at all, well, wouldn't be much of a loss...

Call me Mr Cynical if you like...