Install blackout blinds Unfortunately, the sun doesn't really care if you need to sleep while it's shining through your windows.
Even better, they could turn the tables on the Conservatives and accuse them of "failing to mend the roof while the sun was shining".
The rhetoric was all about mending the roof while the sun was shining: the real intention was to build up a warchest that could be raided for tax cuts and spending increases in advance of the 2020 election.
Behind all that stuff about mending roofs while the sun was shining was the idea of repairing the public finances in the good times so that there was money around in the bad times.
Thirdly, we did fix the roof while the sun was shining – the roofs of those schools and hospitals where water was pouring in when we came into government in 1997.
In fact, each day brought more variations in weather than my Midwest climate can produce in a summer: blinding fog, stiff wind, warm sun, bone-chilling drizzle, even mysterious episodes of rain while the sun was shining.
The soundbites accompanying the narrative were that Labour had failed to mend the roof while the sun was shining; we are all in it together; and that you don't hand the keys back to the driver who put the car in the ditch.
The Tory accusation is that by spending so much during long years of benign economic conditions, the Labour Party failed to fix the roof while the sun was shining, so that the country went into the storms of 2008 in dangerously leaky shape.In other words, denunciations of the Big Tory Lie about the deficit rest on several mid-sized Labour fibs.
By running a budget surplus in the good times, he would "fix the roof while the sun was shining".
By running a budget surplus in the good times, he would "fix the roof while the sun was shining" and enable the government to continue to meet its most important spending commitments on health, education, defence and pensions.
