How have the privatisation of water and steel worked out? Several Conservatives stood up in the House of Commons today to call for steel renationalisation, as did Richard Tice. And why not? In Britain and Canada, this is the age of Liberals for tariffs. Donald Trump may be many things, but he has undeniably changed the world.
Speaking of Tice, though, let me assure him, as someone who has both back pain and mental health issues, that it is perfectly possible to do so, and that they are both very real indeed. When the non-doms stamped their feet, then Rachel Reeves largely backed down. Yet there is no sign of any of that for the people who did not buy her clothes, although, unlike her, they did buy their own.
And as for this suddenly prominent thing, the Resolution Foundation, it has spawned not only Torsten Bell, but also Dan Tomlinson, who has today graced us with the wisdom that billionaires cannot be taxed but cripples can because cripples cannot move. Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing. Oh, and of course the likes of Reeves and of Darren Jones privately compare disability benefits to children's pocket money. They thought that everyone did. They administer PIP without knowing that it is an in-work benefit. Take it away from a worker, and you cut that worker's income by that much. Moreover, if a policy were going to push 50,000 children into poverty, then that should be the end of it.
David Dimbleby writes an excellent feature on the BBC about how the challenge to free markets today is coming from the Right (although he's plainly never heard of the National Conservatism movement or he'd have known this years ago).
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If and when Reform UK ever got its hands on anything significant, then we would see about that. Of course, I have many, many friends on the Old Right. But they have never yet managed to persuade their parties.
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