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“Is the last person leaving the UK, please turn off the lights?” It was the infamous title of the Sun, in 1992, which Neil Tina accused him of losing Johnon Major’s election. It came to my mind again this week when the cinema emerged and took advantage of the idea of a wealth tax – something that Downing Street didn’t turn off. If the UK really returned to the 1970s, on rolling strikes and heavy taxes and visiting the IMF, can we just ask you just fast to the end?
Sir Kir Starmer’s difficulties are not all of his. But they are too self-wrapped. In an attempt to get Skete lawmakers to regain reforms in prosperity, the thugs ‘thugs’ tactics withdrew. Rachel Reeves’ taxes have caused brains. The cave of winter fuel supplement, “drivers’ training and other public sector workers” mean that every lobby group will now try its luck. If the rhetoric for “difficult choices” was not disturbing to some; Failure to do anything even more.
The next election is now ready for abductions. And space opened in British politics. The paper seems to be closed in tax and passes the loop of the accident. Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK reforms, has engulfed his old freedom and made the decisive left move of the economy. No one now works convincingly on a platform of fiscal responsibility, growth and enterprise, offering a vision worth sharing the pain.
Many political strategists think there are no votes to limit spending. They believe that we voters will always prefer the magic tree. I’m not that sure. Middle -class taxpayers feel brutally drained. And voters want stability, not noise for bond markets.
Farage bets that he can become prime minister by relying right on culture and leaving the economy. It calls for reintrustralization and nationalization of water, energy and rail. (The performance “Rescue” of British Steel Labor was a direct answer to this). He also exceeds the Starmer of Welfare by calling for the abolition cap for two children: which would cost even more money.
In drawing voters and the labor and conservatives, Farage is trying to resurrect the type of election coalition that has affected Boris Nsonson in power.
The irony is that Nsonson’s careless reign of Nsonson’s cake has created the possibility of Farage, as well as part of the clutter of the Starmer government struggling to clear.
Nsonson then brought a record number of immigrants (and did so without, according to the Public Accounts Committee, any appropriate examination of the consequences). It was NSONSON who was overwhelmed by Furlow, HS2 and the failed test and trace system and which thrilled – to quote its words in another context – “save money to the Wallid”. And it was NSONSON that weakened the rules of well -being, painstakingly made by Iin Duncan Smith under David Cameron, who brought 1 million people back to work between 2010 and 2020.
When Kemi Badenoch shouts for the “broken” well -being, she has to admit who broke it. She has the right to seek the return of face to face estimates. But the Conservatives opposed Starmer’s attempts to reform the benefits of well -being and winter fuel accessory. If they were an adult, the responsible side of the potential government, they had to support it.
The condition of the Conservatives is serious. Liz Trus destroyed the party’s reputation for economic competence. Nsonson has stepped up the public with its manifested disregard for the law. The Liberal Democrats used the old Tori Hardland voters who voted, remain and do not like the wars in culture. Farage is also more convincing for immigration. Tori’s latest reform defector, Sir Akeeke Barry, says it is “a challenge for the old order”.
The corrosive aspect of today’s UK, which eats in our national soul, is the feeling that the system is false; that everyone is moving away from that. Water companies spent years pouring sewers into rivers, apparently impermeable to the regulation. Post masters have not yet been paid. Supermarkets and chemists are tormented with shops and luxury apartments are being built for international residents who have barely stepped into the UK, while the generation rent has a price. Some special profit -producing schools, the next battle that enters the Starmer, charge 61,500 pounds per child.
There is a lot to get angry; But fixing it requires the skill level that this government has not yet shown. Starmer is not interested in the details of politics. At meetings, I have been told, he is looking for solutions not problems. But in our system, the most intense problems end up at the prime minister’s desk.
Getting public finances under control and growth requires bold decisions. It means making large bets on several growth industries, not spraying too little everywhere. That means changing the way we appreciate electricity to help the industry, which would not disturb net zero. It means put an end to the unsustainable pension with a triple lock. If the labor, with a great majority and a young electorate, cannot do it, who will?
The UK still has excellent grounds: Just ask every American who moved from Washington. If our Morose is not in synchronization with our true abilities, it is partly because we are tired of political drama. There is a hunger for stability and hope.
The great division in politics, according to Luke Tril of Ancester, is among the people who “want to burn” and those who prefer a gradual change. I would decide on competence.
It lasts four years.
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