Starmer’s headlong rush

David Craig has an interesting TCW piece on Starmer's ridiculous claim to be pursuing a policy of economic growth. Craig links this claim to the Cloward-Piven Strategy  of welfare collapse.


Starmer’s headlong rush to make us all poorer

SOMETHING very strange seems to be happening under Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour. The former Director of Public Prosecutions blethers on endlessly about generating economic growth. But at least four key members of his government, including the Prime Minister himself, are enthusiastically pursuing policies which will inevitably lead to Britain’s economic decline and the impoverishment of the majority of British citizens.

Crazed eco-fanatic Ed Miliband’s attack on cheap reliable fossil fuels with such stupidities as closing down our North Sea oil and gas industry, possibly cancelling the building of nuclear power stations, and making us reliant on expensive and unreliable supposed ‘renewables’, will increase what are already some of the world’s highest energy prices, making British companies uncompetitive and driving even more manufacturing out of Britain while further impoverishing households. Angela Rayner’s new employee- and union-friendly labour laws will dissuade companies from employing people in Britain and probably massively increase joblessness. Rachel Reeves’s coming Grim-Reaper tax increases on wealth creators will suffocate British business, driving many entrepreneurs out of the country and dissuading those who remain from creating wealth if it is at risk of being appropriated by a tax-hungry government. And Starmer’s active commitment to open-borders, bring-in-the-third-world immigration free-for-all will collapse our welfare system while leading to ever more intercommunity violence and social breakdown.


The whole piece is well worth reading, not because Starmer's government is pursuing a policy of welfare collapse, but because his brand of authoritarian bureaucracy is likely to take us at least part way there. Accident or design, the outcome could be much the same.

I’m not suggesting that Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour are deliberately trying to destroy our country. But I suspect that deep within the DNA of the former chief prosecutor’s government is a belief that, rather than letting us decide how to run our own lives, the country would be better if ruled by an authoritarian bureaucracy which will decide who can come to our country, how much each of us can earn and spend, how much we can travel, how much energy we should be permitted to use, what we may eat, what media should be approved or banned by those in power and what opinions should be allowed.