Given the current dire state of the Conservative Party, it may make some sense to bribe middle-class interest groups, even at the price of broader credibility.
They are steps we have to take if we want to build an economy that lasts, if we want to be able to compete with other countries for jobs that restore a sense of security to middle-class families.
And long before this recession hit -- for a decade -- middle-class families had already been expensing -- experiencing a sense of declining economic security.