https://thecritic.co.uk/anti-industrial-strategy/
In his infamously grim speech in the Downing Street garden, Keir Starmer said that government has to be “honest with people – about the choices we face. And How tough this will be.” Starmer presents himself as a man who is being brutally honest with the British public, not lying about the scale of the challenges. But as so often with politicians, the more they insist they are being honest, the bigger the lie they are trying to sell you.
Starmer says that he is making tough choices, but he is failing to present them as choices at all. As he goes on to say in his speech “We have no other choice given the situation that we’re in.” It’s like a magic trick, it’s misdirection. Tough choices, hard choices, we must make choices, we have no choice. Stop. Freeze the cards. Look — there one vanishes up Starmer’s sleeve. Choice, choice, choice, no choice. He’s telling you the government is making choices, then telling you that there are no choices to be made at all.
But there are choices. Every penny the government spends or cuts is a political choice. What Labour is doing is making choices for you, but by presenting them as a fait acompli, they are trying to convince you that those decisions are driven by pure, apolitical necessity. So rather than presenting the options to us in a general election, or even opening up the question for national or parliamentary debate, they are going into a back room and deciding the country’s fate without scrutiny or challenge.
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