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article excerpt: All the political parties lack a compelling, or even plausible, vision for future economic success. Yet this is Britain’s true weakness and addressing it should be the right’s core mission. Other issues matter. But the path to and trade-offs for prosperity ought to dominate the discourse. One minister likes to observe that “you cannot do social democracy on 1 per cent growth”. In fact, you cannot do any form of liberal democracy on economic stagnation. If you seek Britain’s central crisis, start here.

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article excerpt: All the political parties lack a compelling, or even plausible, vision for future economic success. Yet this is Britain’s true weakness and addressing it should be the right’s core mission. Other issues matter. But the path to and trade-offs for prosperity ought to dominate the discourse. One minister likes to observe that “you cannot do social democracy on 1 per cent growth”. In fact, you cannot do any form of liberal democracy on economic stagnation. If you seek Britain’s central crisis, start here.
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May (chrismayla6@zirk.us)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 03:49:34 JST Emeritus Prof Christopher May

As Robert Shrimsley (FT) points out the Right (and its championing of culture warrior's deception of the country's problems) are completely misdiagnosing the real crisis the UK faces.
With stagnant growth (in general terms but also in household incomes), with a dysfunctional housing market, a stagnation of productivity improvements and service after service collapsing or in a crisis of regulatory failure, the UK's problems are economic no cultural.
Wilfully ignoring this is idiocy!
#politics

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