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When returning back, the budget that Rachel Reeves gave last autumn was almost a shooting crime. The British consultant in the cabinet was warned of putting a lot of increasing tax burden on business. She was told that the highly wealthy people were not afraid about the transfer of their affairs elsewhere. But she knew better, and of course she did not.

I saved it a few things. First, the change of the Minister of Finance may have been panic for the miller investors, even if its own review has done a lot of appearance. Second, there are more than 400 Labor Party deputies who will be worse in the job. Through the default, Reeves remains.

In a row, this is true. But can we at least drop the pretending now that the work wants economic growth above all? This was the party line before and after its victory in the ground collapse elections last summer. You hear it less and less over time. Data – which shows the weak job market, among other problems – makes normal mockery From him. As well as government actions.

This week, sir Care Starmer A plan to reduce immigration was announced. Some of them are reasonable. The problem is that it requires another round of burdens on employers, who are already facing a rise in national insurance costs. In other words, growth is the first priority of the government, but the defeat of Nigel Faraj.

Last month, Tony Blair warned of the economic cost of carbon emissions in Britain. The Downing Street, the former Prime Minister, scolded without proving that he was wrong. In other words, growth is the first priority of the government, but this is zero zero.

Soon after, it may decrease as the worst of bad ruling, the Labor Party will throw a pile of additional regulations in the workplace on business, regardless of those related to immigration. Unlike the tax height, which was developed with some dark public finances in mind, there is no explicit need for the added red strip. In other words, growth is the first priority of the government, but as well as maintaining sweet labor unions.

This is a government with half of the first priorities. If the growth is no longer very important, the problem is not that Starmer and Reeves have lied to the nation. Everything that is said at that time. Like all parties that spend a long time out of power, work “only” has reduced the government’s bodies.

No, the blame is commented on those who took these people with their words. I did not see a government less than the scrutiny of Starmer. The work did not choose to grow in the short term in the short term political The pressure or its favorite interests groups, at least not when the moments of the crisis have reached. Since the conservatives tend to rule for a long time, and to shame themselves near the end, it is understood that the cultural defects in the Special Labor Party do not fit themselves in the national mind. The main medal is a lack of understanding of life outside the public sector, the Union Movement and the world of Quango. The number of companies that live on small margins, which Ni Rise would erase, was news of even parts of the left in the global center.

In the end, the British policy is a choice of sympathy for stagnant living levels. National sovereignty and unbutled countryside? Therefore, conservative vote. A more fundamental public sector and the agenda of the generous climate? The work offers these analgesics. Even the “pro -business” reform in the United Kingdom is truly trading on immigration and other cultural causes.

At some point, we have to conclude that voters want this in this way. Their “open” preference for things other than growth is not unique to Britain. Look at most Western Europe. It may even buy a social peace that we will not notice until it has disappeared. (The United States was a growth phenomenon, with a simple clear benefit.) But let us at least be clear about it. This government should be the last to promise to develop growth first without raising a muffled laugh.

Rawd forever, then? Well, there is one effect of hope. Starmer often reaches the right place, late. Jeremy Korpin removed the labor movement, after he campaign for several years to make him the Prime Minister. On sex and other cultural questions, it is ready for these days challenge The hard left, and now that he lost anyway. During the height of waking up an era, you could not find it with light.

Let me, then, to predict another conversion at eleven o’clock. Near the end of this parliament, which is an economic flip, Starmer will make radical reforms to improve growth. These will include some or all the following: softening zero zero, a deep step towards the European Union, a tax change to restore mobile wealth to Britain, a set of exemptions from the laws of the new workplace, and perhaps even the calm decline from the same immigration restrictions that it just announced.

These policies may raise enough animal lives to see labor through the upcoming elections. Or, as I had been suspected since Starmer was elected, this is just one of the pockets of history when a major change in public feelings comes, but it has not yet come. At such times, most of the leader he can do is preparing the ground. The first fuss from the precedence occurred under the action government that preceded it. Many of what we think, as Reaganite started during the reign of Jimmy Carter. Starmer has this type of historical role written all over. It may put economic growth above all – but it is too late for him, and for the missing generation of his citizens.

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