Politicians yet to give us coherent economic pitch

Party manifestos and our budgets are blind to the fact that we are a country where the average household depends on agriculture. [Courtesy]

The rise of the Hustler movement could have heralded the beginning of issue-based politics. The movement’s leaders rightfully saw a “bottom-up” populist economic message as a winning narrative in a young country struggling to create jobs.

In an ideal world, other political formations ought to have responded in kind with their own economic messages.