The economic vision of Reichl Reeves has become a year late Rafael is a dazzling

A The government this young man should not look very old. Kiir Starmer has yet to celebrate his first anniversary on Downg Street Street, but the government is already moving with temporary administration’s gait.

There were painful stumbling blocks at first. Fuel payments were announced in the winter season for millions of retirees within a month of the general elections. Now, in the face of the overwhelming opposition, it has been largely reversed. Huge savings were bought to the cabinet at a high price in political capital.

The advisor was supposed to aim to show that early work to reduce the inconvenient costs by the advisor was to show that the Labor Party was serious about financial discipline. The legacy of the mismanagement of the Conservative Party – a revenue deficit of 20 billion pounds – can be mentioned in mitigation.

The retirees never enjoyed the confiscation of their benefits, just as farmers would have complained of the loss of inheritance and companies’ tax privileges that are unlikely to thank the consultant for walking for long distances. But some recession may be cut into a new government that dared to make difficult decisions; The memory of the terrible conservative base may be converted to their background.

The idea was to announce Britain, under newly reliable management, as a beacon of the system in a chaotic and magnetic world of investment. The general resources stipulated wisely will be deployed in ways to stimulate growth – the upgrade of the transportation and energy infrastructure; House construction. It will follow the prosperity, and the national mood is entertained.

The spending review for this week is supposed to be a pivotal moment in implementing this plan. There will be increases in capital and daily spending by 113 billion pounds and 190 billion pounds, respectively, respectively; Good, beyond what the conservatives proposed before the elections. The opposite of austerity, the cabinet insists. Rachel Reeves is proud of the “national renewal”, which prompted him profits for financial and political stability.

But Whitol The departments that are not chosen for the sake of distress face discounts in real harsh spending. Investing will not be invested in new trains, homes and power stations for years and decades in some cases.

In a more benign climate, the new government can make a long -term policy policy, not to bend every announcement to make tactical gains. But this amounts to a recognition of national endurance, and urges collective sacrifice in anticipation of future reward. After years of stagnant income and increasing bills, there is not much cane between British voters to further postpone the gratification.

Also, it was time to get a reliable state for this type of program before elections. The deadly defect in the economic strategy of work was to exaggerate the estimation of the amount of good intentions available to the party as soon as its electoral benefit is fulfilled as a tool for the overthrow of the conservatives.

Kiir Starmer won a large majority by making himself an attack on the largest possible number of people. The campaign began with the hypothesis that the Labor Party loses whenever voters believed to be planning a reckless upper sphere, or suspect that its leader is a leftist fanatic. These threats were neutralized with fierce discipline, but at a cost of clearly about the post -election agenda. Starmer embodies a contradiction – change without a revolution. This was obligated to reveal the first contact with the reality of the government.

In the past era, Reeves may be attempting to blame the painful options in the legacy of the Conservative Party. It is clear that there is a chaos that must be cleared and sometimes the voters have long memories. Winter Winter was recruited as evidence of the exclusion of the Labor Party from its post for more than a decade. Doing the settlement of the settler and the harsh neglect of the world in the nineties is the same for the conservatives. Their last era of defects must be imposed for another long period of expiation for the opposition.

Maybe he will do that, but not necessarily in favor of work. The traditional division of loyalty between two main parties collapses, and perhaps irreversible. UK reform regularly in opinion polls. In terms of controlled councils, liberal democrats are The second largest party in Great Britain.

These may be transient trends. It is not unprecedented of the smaller parties to benefit from dissatisfaction with the ruling when the main opposition is still credible and divided after the last defamation of his position. In late 1981, the liberal SDP alliance included about 50 %. In the general elections, after 18 months, they won 23 seats.

Reform is not the first party led by Nigel Faraj and its previous cars – UKIP; Britain’s exit from the European Union – its threat in the middle of the period did not turn into parliamentary seats. But that was when the conservatives were able to compete. In 2019, Farage did not even try to compete with Boris Johnson, as he withdrew more than 300 candidates to make the majority of the Conservative Party more likely.

There are reasons for the belief that the current fragmentation in supporting parties describes a more durable shift in the structure of British policy. The rise of reform is often compatible at the expense of the Conservative Party, with an international pattern of populists and nationalists who unite more firm right -wing parties, and in the American case, the old guard swallowed. The oath in the center center in the province in English does not seem closer to revitalization than the bodies of the tingling in the Republican Party before Trump.

Strong social and cultural trends lead these changes. They express the depth of frustration and disappointment, which resists the calls of candidates who appear as advocates of the continuity of the current system.

This helps to explain the failure of the Labor Party to maintain its position as a favorite alternative to the nation for the conservative party once the elections are over. The silence of the campaign is safety and reassurance, and defining the change in the first place as a key to workers at the top. In the absence of a clear agenda for the future, it ended up having Starmer and Reeves to own everything that is present. In the era of lack of endemic in politics, there was no little benefit from doubting it. Almost overnight, the Labor Party has become an other load of politicians, the same thing appears, and to do unimaginable things and make excuses for the lack of improvement.

This is an unfair feeling of the ministers who argue, with justification, that the last fall budget and the review of spending on Wednesday put Britain on a completely different path from anything in which conservatives were taking into account. But the precious months were wasted as it was difficult to distinguish the gap, when the only visual agenda was the painful tampering with the current situation. The problem is not the path now, but the shallowness of the corner where the lines diverged last July. It is the hesitation in the steps, the harsh position, which makes the work seem less similar to a new team with a purposeful step, similar to watching a familiar job.

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