The argument has always been "you can trust us to steady the ship, be responsible, do the right thing for the economy" through conservative policies.Always maintained the housings market is key to political success. Especially now the normally insulated middle classes are in the mire with faster than expected interest rate rises.
The current government have taken an already volatile economic situation, applied a radical ideological policy to it, and watched it quickly cause catastrophic damage and are pretending it's normal.