Dan Hodges: Desperate work insides tell me the same about Keir Starmer

Did Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves go crazy? What do I think the prime minister and chancellor of the United Kingdom? Do they really understand any understanding of the economic and political catastrophe to give them, their government and the nation?

Now I am only more than two months old since Reeves stayed on a podium in Oxfordshire and broke the entire economic strategy. Until then, her priorities were clear. Filling the “black hole” left by it by Tories. The investment in the vital public services on which it supported -a was neglected over 14 years of conservative mistake. And the increase of the tax revenues to pay not from the British workers, but from the business.

Then her conversion came on the way to Eynsham. Speaking from a flicker embedded with the words “Kickstart Economic Growth,” he said: “Economic growth is the number one mission of this government.” On her hour, the UK will be reborn, through the “vibration of our streets. And the flowering enterprises that create wealth, jobs and new opportunities for us, for our children and grandchildren. “

On Friday morning we must see exactly how vibrant those streets and high enterprises are. According to the figures published by the Office of National Statistics, in January, the Economy of the United Kingdom contracted 0.1 percent.

This news was greeted with surprise in some quarters. Although it is not completely clear why. Because, as a result of the policies that the government pursues, economic regression is now as safe as the appearance of the sun and the east of the Moon. Starmer and Reeves are trying to start growing at the same time imposing 40 billion pounds of fiscal growth on British business, introducing a correct bill and pushing before reducing the UK emissions to the net zero.

In itself, this represents economic illiteracy on a draw with anything tried during the tax psychosis of the 44 days of the Truss administration. But it is not the place where the madness ends. Last week, the ministers appeared that, following the decisions taken in 10 and no. 11 Downing Street, now they must be prepared to implement brutal spending discounts.

At least 6 billion pounds are allocated to be focused from the welfare budget. But it is said that other non -executed departments were ordered to find savings up to 11 percent. Something that caused a minister of the cabinet to notice: “What is the purpose of this government? What are we here for? What is the Labor Party for something?

It’s a completely legitimate question. There were chancellors and first (normally conservative), which reduced taxes to stimulate growth. There were also chancellors and prime ministers (normally labor) that increased taxes to protect and invest in public services. But Starmer and Reeves must be the first politicians in the living memory who actively pursue a tax agenda to increase taxes simultaneously, to raise, suffocate business and reduce public services.

There were occasions in the 1970s, when the government woke up in a corner of economic coffin. But this was primarily a reaction to global oil shocks and currency instability. What we see at present is a deliberate policy, which seems to be driven not as a reaction to events, or even to a proto-marxism, but to a lack of understanding in which the economy actually works.

Here is a passage taken from that venerable tomato economy for mannequins: “Increasing government acquisitions of goods and services or decreased taxes can stimulate the economy”. Our new government does the exact opposite. While literally claims growth is their priority.

In order to try to deviate from this nihilism, Keir Starmer tried to dress him as a form of rationalization similar to the musk of an ungrateful state-with a certain success. The announcement that he decided to abolish NHS England was greeted with applause throughout the political spectrum.

Although he cheated on some of his own ministers. “I was on a journey, and when I first received the message, it seemed to be privatized only NHS. It took me a few minutes to check, he told me one.

But that hand will not give more and more voters more and more. Sir Keir can talk about a weaker state, a more agile state or a state rejuvenated by the white heat of artificial intelligence everything he likes. The British people will simply not do with another round of erosion led by austerity of their basic services.

In 2024, the conservatives were evacuated from office, because the voters came to the point of view that the fabric of their society and their communities collapsed. “Nothing works”, it was the expression most commonly heard by politicians and candidates during the election campaign. And if Keir Starmer cannot find a way to reverse this decomposition of society, it will collect a political whirlwind as violent as the one who broke the administration of Rishi Sunak.

“Our private survey is clear. People want more nurses, police and teachers, “a minister of the exasperated cabinet told me,” and will not go through AI. “

Some people in Downing Street hope that Starmer’s reinvention as an international state will give them enough breathing space to push their discounts. But in reality, the reverse is true.

Unless the prime minister is attentive, his dual attack on the economy and public services will begin to contaminate his policy in Ukraine. Indeed, some ministers believe this is already beginning to happen.

“Now I get people who tell me:” How can we afford drones for Ukraine when we cannot take care of our pensioners and those with disabilities? “, One reported one.

Starmer and Reeves had two viable options. The first was to reduce the tax burden, stimulate the economy and then use the growth to rejuvenate the sick public services of the nation. The other was to pick up taxes, reinvest them in public services and gradually repair an exact nation of austerity.

But they opted for a third way from an economic, social and political point of view. Tighten the economy, take a chain for services and ask -people still blame everyone.

These prayers will not answer. Prime Minister and Chancellor follow the economy The Madhouse. And people in the UK are too hard to tolerate this for a long time.