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A sign of desperation

Wednesday, December 4, 2024 3:30

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Harry Phibbs has a useful CAPX piece about our desperately poor UK Labour government. So poor that it is something of a mystery.

Starmer’s reset is a sign of desperation

Labour’s ministers already come across as hunted and downtrodden
This week brings the ultimate signal of government malaise: a relaunch
Without a coherent set of beliefs, any Government is likely to flounder

This is a young Government. Labour have only been in power for five months. Yet already it has a tired, worn out feel about it. There is a sense of drift and pessimism. Every couple of days, a new sleaze scandal appears in the media.

This should be the phase when ministers are swanking and swaggering on the airwaves, basking in the limelight, confidently proclaiming the progress they are making for the brave new world. Yet do they come across as enjoying themselves? They do not. They come across as hunted and downtrodden. If they admit the Government is doing badly, that would be a gaffe, a story, a pit: ‘Minister breaks ranks…’ Yet if they insist the Government is doing well, that is so absurd a claim as to invite ridicule. So they try to say as little as possible. The Prime Minister engages in the displacement activity of constant foreign travel.

Quite short and familiar but the whole piece is well worth reading because this government is so remarkably inept and bereft of ideas. Phibbs is right, the latest reset is a sign of desperation – after only five months. To my mind it suggests a lack of talent far more damaging than outsiders might have supposed before the election. Useless we might have expected, but not this useless.

There is no need to bother with rumours in order to see that there is something very seriously amiss with the man at the top – Sir Keir Starmer.

Consider the contrast after Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister for five months. That took us to October 1979. That month, exchange controls were abolished – a radical change that transformed us into an open economy that faced the world with confidence. The end of July 1979 had seen controls on the dividends companies could pay abolished. Price controls were lifted and the Price Commission abolished. Wage controls were also scrapped. The Budget on 12 June 1979 cut the top rate of income tax from 83% to 60%. The Queen’s Speech on 15 May announced legislation that would give council tenants the right to buy their homes.

Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2024/12/a-sign-of-desperation.html

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