Eliot Wilson has an interesting CAPX piece on the odd aspect of Keir Starmer's announcement about renationalising British Steel.
Starmer can barely save his career, let alone the steel industry
- The Prime Minister is attempting to save his skin by completely renationalising British Steel
- Does the Government really believe it can run a successful steel business where the private sector has failed?
- Labour's steel strategy is to deploy public expenditure to give the impression they are being productive
The longer he is in office, the more I realise what an odd and atypical politician Keir Starmer is. With his tenancy of 10 Downing Street under genuine threat after last week’s disastrous local and devolved election results, the Prime Minister is pursuing his own internal form of the madman theory: respond to criticism in a way which is so bizarre and disconnected from reality that even your most bitter enemy will be at least perplexed for a while.
The whole piece is well worth reading, both as another story about Labour incompetence and a further reminder of how strange Keir Starmer is beyond the incompetence.
The government has no plan for a competitive steel industry, nor even a rational assessment of whether one is achievable under any circumstances. Instead Starmer is driven by the politician’s syllogism which Sir Humphrey Appleby and Sir Arnold Robinson discuss with dismay in ‘Yes, Prime Minister’:
The whole piece is well worth reading, both as another story about Labour incompetence and a further reminder of how strange Keir Starmer is beyond the incompetence.
The government has no plan for a competitive steel industry, nor even a rational assessment of whether one is achievable under any circumstances. Instead Starmer is driven by the politician’s syllogism which Sir Humphrey Appleby and Sir Arnold Robinson discuss with dismay in ‘Yes, Prime Minister’:
- We must do something.
- This is something.
- Therefore we must do this.
What will change? What will the Government do differently next year that it has not done this year? How will global circumstances change and how will they be managed? What does a future British steel industry look like? Ministers have no idea, of course, because they have avoided asking the questions. Instead they will deploy public expenditure to make everyone feel like they are being productive.
Maybe British Steel can respond by feeling like it is a successful and profitable enterprise. It is hard to see what more we can expect.
6 comments:
Nationalise British Steel. Because it was such a success last time.
What next?
Reopen the coal mines.
Nationalise house building.
Brothels.
Food production.
Why not. What could go wrong.
Christ, these clowns are bloody useless!
Mike - I've just posted a video along those lines - the clown don't know what they need to know and don't want to know it.
It seems that politicians have no idea that their actions have real world consequences. As an example, make energy more expensive and industries that are energy intensive can no longer make a profit and either go out of business, or move abroad .Hence the pottery industry dies as does steel making because they can no longer make ends meet. This means that all the employees lose their jobs and income and start claiming from the state. The state has a loss of all the taxes generated both by employers and the workers and is instead paying out increased benefits. And so the downward spiral continues because the politicians lack the necessary power of thought.
In no way can British steel be allowed to succeed, thrive, because that negates the mission to run Britain into the dirt, a mission with which Starmer has been entrusted.
I can see the plan now. 1) Nationalise British Steel. 2) What the f%&k do we do with it now?
I imagine a steel industry employing a lot of poeple whose jobs have been 'saved' or 'created', turning a 'profit', but not actually producing any useable steel
John - yes, it would be amazing if we weren't so used to the ignorance and incompetence. So dire it's not easy to know what to say when faced with yet more examples. They don't even learn.
James - it looks like that. I prefer incompetence but there is an uncomfortable level of it to explain.
Bucko - yes, they don't care about doing something with it, just be seen to save it for what is a modest amount of money for governments.
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