Keir Starmer: he’s not doing here what Sophie Duker suggested in the clip – but the look on his face may suggest he has been in the recent past.
This was too good to leave as a throwaway tweet so I’ve taken video and put it on TikTok to test the possibilities of that platform (and as practice for myself).
It’s from Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, in which comedian Sophie Duker (not Dukes, as the software insisted on renaming her) passes judgement on Keir Starmer’s tenure (so far) as leader of the Labour Party.
(To be honest, the clip isn’t that good either – sorry! But I’m sure it’ll get better once I’ve ironed out a few things.)
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If you’re doubting the sincerity of the world leaders who are meeting to talk – and I stress, talk – about fighting climate change and the destruction of our eco-system at COP26, you’re not the only one:
They flew there in their jet aeroplanes and will fly out in them . It is just a jolly at the tax payers expense . Perhaps #Johnson should return to London by rail , show some commitment! When is the next one planned ?
These leaders – certainly Boris Johnson and his crony Alok Sharma who is hosting the conference – did their level best to keep the coppers rolling in for their big business funders during the (ongoing, let’s not forget) Covid-19 crisis – at the cost of our lives.
They scheduled two hugely important summits back-to-back – in cities thousands of miles apart. And they are travelling between those places in hugely-polluting aircraft and enormous gas-guzzling motorcades.
They are likely to put the onus to take action against climate change on the majority of the population, even though the 1% – the billionaires – who fund them are responsible for as much of the damage as a full half of the 99% – the rest of the population.
They are likely to ignore the fact that the 99% have no choice when it comes to climate change. We have to use the facilities provided to us by the 1% who control them, and if those facilities are provided using resources that trigger climate change, we can’t do anything about it.
And they are likely to blame us when nothing changes.
Meanwhile, they are unlikely to impose strong demands on the 1% that will actually stave off our impending eco-doom. Such demands would require their funders – remember, the businesspeople causing the problem pay money to the politicians – to forgo some of their massive profits in order to restructure their enterprises to cause less pollution.
And that might mean they couldn’t build their own – hugely polluting – spaceships!
Knowing all this, if This Writer were you, I would take everything these people say at COP(OUT)26 with a massive spoonful of salt.
And remind yourself that nothing is ever going to change when we are led by people of such weapons-grade hypocrisy.
Mark Drakeford: Wales’ First Minister is far more successful at elections than Keir Starmer. Is this the reason he is under attack?
Right-wing headbangers have been laying into the UK’s most successful Labour politician – because he is to attend a discussion of a favourite project at a Labour Conference fringe event.
Yet again, the weapon being used is guilt by association; the event is to be attended by people who have been falsely smeared as anti-Semites so the loony right is using this as an excuse to smear Drakeford.
Perhaps they’re just jealous because Drakeford actually wins elections while Keir Starmer’s record in that area is singularly lacking.
So we see Eluned Anderson, a regional ambassador of the Holocaust Educational Trust, saying, “The First Minister of Wales should not be sharing a platform with members who have been expelled from the party. The damn state of this.”
Yes indeed – look at the “damn state” of her comment. A man goes to an event to raise the profile of an idea that will improve the lives of millions and she’s bleating because somebody else will be somewhere nearby. Pathetic.
Then there’s swivel-eyed John Haywood, a Labour councillor for Ringwood North in Hampshire, which is nowhere near Wales so we may conclude that he doesn’t know Drakeford or have any qualification to comment on him.
He’s the origin of the catchphrase “Trot jamboree” that has been taken up by the press: “Very very disappointed that Mark Drakeford is on the bill at Twit Festival, which is basically a Trot jamboree taking place in Brighton at the same time as UK Labour party conference.“
For the record, not a single Trotskyist person or organisation has been invited to the event.
Next up: Wales Against Antisemitism: “Why does Mark Drakeford, as First Minister of Wales, think it appropriate to speak at this event, given antisemitism controversies involving many of his fellow speakers?”
I wonder whether this straightforward guilt-by-association smear would provide enough grounds for Ms Winter and Mr Standing to sue for libel.
These attacks are repellant and so are the people making them. They are indicative of the worst kind of political opportunism – accusing people, not because of something they have done, but because of unsubstantiated accusations against completely different people who won’t even be at the event.
(Or at least, we have no reason to believe that Jeremy Corbyn or Ken Loach will be at the talk. It would be nice if they were, though.)
Of course there has been an online backlash from people who seem to be more mentally-balanced.
Here’s a very pertinent comment:
Nobody had a problem when Ed Miliband and Lisa Nandy attended The World Transformed over the last few years so why are some getting so angry at Mark Drakeford attending this year??
How do the creepy extremists listed above feel about Starmer and Nandy attending a “Trots convention” alongside people who may have been excluded from the party since they were there.
That’s enough reason for Starmer and Nandy to be excluded, isn’t it? According to current Labour disciplinary practices, that is.
Ah, but here’s a possible explanation of why that is unlikely to happen:
The First Minister of Wales is a socialist. That makes him the enemy of 80% of Labour MPs and councillors. https://t.co/hPFyFCMpxl
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush 🟨🟥🥀🇵🇸 (@WarmongerHodges) August 30, 2021
Well we certainly can’t accuse Starmer or Nandy of socialism!
There has also been a lot of straightforward support for Drakeford, from people who want to hear what he has to say:
If you believe that he is doing the right thing with speaking at the @TWT_NOW event Retweet this tweet and give him some encouragement in the comments below.
— Emz The Socialist #OrdinaryLeft ✊❤️ (@EmzTheSocialist) August 30, 2021
I’m sorry but how are we meant to unite with the Labour right “to get rid of the Tories” when the Labour right are going to war with us – the left – instead of the Tories?
It’s so interesting how many of the anti-Corbyn brigade are so rattled by people getting together to share ideas, to engage, debate & agitate, and to organise.
What did they think? We’d just shut up & go away? Not bloody likely.
The World Transformed @TWT_NOW is a wonderful space to share knowledge and to network with people who are passionate about social justice and equality for all.
That it clearly scares some folk who claim to be 'Left' only underscores the need for it #TWT21#TrotJamboree
— Prof Gayle Letherby 💙 #PeaceAndJustice (@gletherby) August 30, 2021
Prime Minister in Welsh is Prif Weinidog. First Minister in Welsh is Prif Weinidog. Mark Drakeford leader of Welsh labour is our Prif Weinidog. I stand with Mark Drakeford support his attendance at #TWT21 he will address a large youth audience just as Lisa Nandy & Ed Miliband did
— Maria Carroll #No Child Left Behind (@Maria4CarmsEast) August 30, 2021
Anas Sarwar – Loses Seats – "Really turning things around for Scottish Labour!"
Mark Drakeford – Wins Seats – "Mr Chairman of the Trot Jamboree!"
Can’t wait for trot jamboree @TWT_NOW & can’t wait to hear from socialist legends like @MarkDrakeford (who could teach Labour to Win a thing or two about, y’know, winning). ✊🏽💥
Of course the Labour Right headbangers are going after Drakeford. Its what they do. Cannot have anyone not belonging to their weird little sect being broadly popular with the electorate. Crabs in a barrel dressed as fucking clowns
Ultimately, this could be interpreted, not as an attack on people who have been accused of holding controversial views – but an attempt to silence a progressive idea.
In attacking Drakeford, these swivel-eyed loons are dragging the idea of Universal Basic Income into disrepute – again, by “guilt through association”. Is that the real agenda?
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Keir Starmer (left) and his right-wing ACTING general secretary David Evans: they’re doormats to any right-wing organisation that wants to attack Labour, but have no problem attacking left-wing young people.
A new event has been added to the programme of The World Transformed – the left-wing political festival running alongside the Labour Party Conference this year.
Youth Rising for Palestine will take place on September 28, between 3-4.30pm, sponsored by Young Labour and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, in what can only be a bitter humiliation for Keir Starmer and his unelected general secretary David Evans, who – it seems clear – tried to prevent the event from taking place at all.
The event’s blurb states: “May 2021 saw thousands of Palestinians killed by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza strip, in the wake of a wave of protests against violent evictions in Sheikh Jarrar and across occupied Palestine. In response to these attacks, millions mobilised across the world in solidarity with the people of Palestine, including the largest ever UK solidarity demonstration in London attended by overwhelmingly young people. But it is not enough to protest in the streets when thousands of Palestinian lives are lost. As the Israeli state ramps up its regime of apartheid and occupation, while the British political establishment seeks to suppress Palestinian voices and those acting in solidarity with them, how can we build on the explosion of youth-led organising we’ve seen this year to build a long-lasting and cross-generational UK solidarity movement?”
You can see how this would upset Starmer, who has aligned Labour firmly with apartheid Israel through his fawning subservience to the Board of Deputies of British Jews – which has itself just admitted its own strong ties to the Israeli Embassy; apparently it is not a UK organisation but an arm of the Israeli government that is being used to influence UK politics.*
I’m not the only person to see it this way. Consider:
What a genius move!
The event that David Evans and Keir Starmer tried to ban from Labour conference will now be held by The World Transformed!
— Emz The Socialist #OrdinaryLeft ✊❤️ (@EmzTheSocialist) September 1, 2021
How was Young Labour forced to take its event outside the Labour Conference? It’s quite complicated, but I’ll try to take you through it painlessly.
Events had been unfolding for many months but we only found out about them yesterday (August 31) after Young Labour co-chair Jess Barnard finally gave up trying to reason with Starmer (who never responded anyway) and Evans – who, it seems, was more interested in exercising powers he doesn’t actually have:
This is a disappointing and difficult thread to post, so buckle up!
A few months ago, myself and @lara_eleanor met with David Evans once we were told the party would not be holding a young labour conference this year, despite it being a rulebook requirement.
Right – so Young Labour were told they would not be allowed to hold their annual event this year, even though the Labour Party is required by its own rules to host it. Already, Evans was breaking party rules.
If he had provided a reason – even one as flimsy as Covid-19 (it wouldn’t work because then he wouldn’t be holding a full conference) – it wouldn’t have been as bad, but he simply didn’t bother.
Its worth noting here that during all this we have had nothing from Keir Starmer or the leaders office since being elected almost a year ago. No acknowledgement we exist, no reply to emails, nothing.
Okay, so Evans at least promised to provide more resources for a Young Labour presence in the main event. Did he?
No:
So we are now three weeks to conference with the party giving us no information, and just today they have said there is no capacity for due diligence checks until 20th september – these are the necessary checks for every speaker at conference potentially ruling out YL day.
You read that right. YL provided all its required information months ago and was ignored until yesterday – August 31 – when Ms Barnard was given the excuse that the party had “no capacity for due diligence checks” until September 20.
To me, it looks like Evans (and Starmer?) found a reason to want YL’s events cancelled – quietly and without any nasty publicity. Why would they want that? Read on…
Myself and a couple of committee members will now be working around the clock to pull together events with or without the help of the leadership. Young members have bought tickets, paid for travel and accommodation to be here and were promised a YL day by the national party.
Is the picture clearer now? YL wanted to host an event with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and Evans (and Starmer?) wanted to put a stop to it. But they didn’t want to be seen to be stopping that particular event, so they created an excuse about “due diligence” checks.*
Ms Barnard, at least, is still willing to work with the Labour leadership…
I felt it was important to set the record straight that we as a committee are doing everything within our power and capacity to deliver for all young members and will make sure any young member who bought tickets will not be let down. In solidarity!
One reason for this feeling is the arrival of a journalist named Oliver Kamm (I had never heard of him either). After Ms Barnard tweeted her thread, he responded with the comment below – claiming that Young Labour is anti-Semitic and wants to see a second Holocaust.
There is, to This Writer’s knowledge, absolutely no evidence to support such a wild claim, so Ms Barnard’s response is entirely understandable.
And take a look at Alex Tiffin’s comment.
Now would be the time you'd expect @Keir_Starmer and @AngelaRayner to come to the aid of their Young Elected Representatives. It is after all their job to support & mentor them
It's not just defamatory for @YoungLabourUK either, but the wider @UKLabour Party in general.
Where are Starmer and Rayner (and, for that matter, Evans)? Nowhere to be seen. Now, why on Earth would they not want to defend their elected Labour Party representative? And isn’t it a dereliction of duty that they have said nothing about this?
Fortunately a few other people have chimed in to have their informed say. Personally, I have no knowledge of this Kamm person so must rely on their information:
First, we had Simon Heffer claiming that Corbyn wanted to 'reopen Auschwitz', and now we have Oliver Kamm saying that Young Labour wants 'a second Holocaust'.
They all know this stuff is unhinged nonsense, but this is what the fake 'antisemitism crisis' has always been: a scam. https://t.co/2DaZ9CZtOG
Oliver Kamm, currently inventing obscene claims with which to brand Young Labour racist, previously wrote that Islamophobia is a "scam," a "fabricated and question-begging linguistic manoeuvre."https://t.co/Wx8FsMW9s1pic.twitter.com/oBeZexnOug
Oliver Kamm used to post in a Chomsky newsgroup in the late 90s/00s. David Graeber was active there at the time and remembered him when I reached out to him a couple of years ago. Kamm had thousands of posts, many originating from his then-employer Commerzbank's IP address. pic.twitter.com/kdhj9oOalu
10 months ago, Keir Starmer removed the whip from Jeremy Corbyn for saying Labour's "antisemitism crisis" had been exaggerated and weaponised, thereby stoking up unjustified fear among British Jews.
In other news, here's Oliver Kamm claiming Young Labour want a second Holocaust. pic.twitter.com/nKBzFtrTjT
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush 🟨🟥🥀🇵🇸 (@WarmongerHodges) September 1, 2021
Not forgetting that Oliver Kamm's idea of freedom of speech is to threaten and bully younger journalists, such as @OwenJones84, and write to their employers in an apparent attempt to intimidate them. https://t.co/3KPJq0JdVv
— leftworks #WeAreCorbyn #IStandWithCraigMurray (@leftworks1) August 31, 2021
Fortunately, given all of the above, it seems certain that the following tweet will prove inaccurate:
Oliver Kamm seriously tweeted that Young Labour supports a second Holocaust and he can just do that and nothing will happen. Absolutely wild.
So that is the reason Young Labour will be co-sponsoring an event at so-called “Trots’ Jamboree” The World Transformed – alongside the PSC. I wonder if Jeremy Corbyn will attend.
This Writer has no doubt that it will be a much more worthwhile use of your time than whatever vapid puff of hot air will be put up by Starmer’s mob at that time. When’s his leader speech?
Meanwhile, I can only agree with the following two tweets…
The more Keir Starmer targets, silences and purges Palestinian rights campaigners to placate the Jewish Labour Movement [sic] and the Board of Deputies, the more obvious it becomes that Labour's "antisemitism crisis" was all about protecting the fascist government of Israel.
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush 🟨🟥🥀🇵🇸 (@WarmongerHodges) August 31, 2021
By effectively banning Young Labour from this year's Labour Party conference, Keir Starmer has told everyone who got interested in politics because of Jeremy Corbyn to f*ck off.
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush 🟨🟥🥀🇵🇸 (@WarmongerHodges) August 31, 2021
… and endorse James Foster’s words of encouragement to Young Labour members who will be attending the conference:
I hope any @YoungLabourUK members, eligible to vote, vote AGAINST the appointment of David Evans at @UKLabour Conference.
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Hypocrite: Boris Johnson on the boarding ramp of the plane he took from London to Cornwall, talking about creating a “greener” world after causing five times as much pollution as if he had just taken the train.
Once again, Boris Johnson humiliates everybody in the UK before the leaders of the world.
He said he will ask fellow G7 leaders to contribute to creating a “greener” world – but travelled to the meeting at which he’ll do it in an aeroplane. The short flight from London to Cornwall created almost five times more greenhouse gas emissions than the equivalent train journey would have, according to the government’s own emission figures.
Shadow Environment Secretary Luke Pollard said the stunt was “plane stupid” and This Writer agrees with him.
I stated in a tweet: “Typical doubletalk from Boris Johnson – claiming to be building a greener Britain while undermining it.”
Others were less charitable:
Do you really think that Boris Johnson who flew in a jet from London to Cornwall which is around 250 miles and than tweets from the aircrafts doorway that he's building a greener Britain is sincere? He just the windup artist for the 1%. #G7https://t.co/pnjLHMlmNI
— John Smith (son of Harry Leslie Smith) (@Harryslaststand) June 9, 2021
“The windup artist for the One Per Cent”? It’s a good point.
If the world is to reach “jet zero” emissions, how many of the flights that ordinary people take will be cancelled?
And how many flights taken by the super-rich, and by politicians like Johnson, will also be cancelled?
I’m willing to bet that the answers to those two questions are as follows: Many – and none.
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Tory joke candidate Liam Fox has been knocked out of the race to become director-general of the World Trade Organisation.
According to the Torygraph, the former international trade secretary was eliminated before the last of three rounds to replace Roberto Azevedo, who stepped down a year earlier than expected at the end of August, so
Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee will go head-to-head to become the trade body’s first female director-general
The reaction has been what you might expect, considering the person involved.
Fox was forced out of an early David Cameron cabinet for letting a friend of his, Adam Werrity, into confidential defence meetings and taking him on foreign junkets.
He has since crept back into Tory cabinets and was Theresa May’s International Trade secretary.
But he is widely held to be another inept Tory fool.
So the reaction to his WTO failure was clear:
I bring you good news.
The disgraced former Cabinet Minister, Liam Fox, didn’t get that top job at the World Trade Organisation.
This is one less chance the Tories will get to humiliate us on the global stage.
Excellent news. The idea Liam Fox, an abject failure when Secretary of State for International Trade, was intellectually fit to head the WTO was too preposterous for words. It was a notion borne out of a delusional belief in British exceptionalism.https://t.co/azkZG2uXDA
Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, former no. 2 at World Bank, economist from Harvard and MIT. You Myung-Hee South Korean minister of trade, a senior trade official for 28 years much involved with the WTO. By putting up a no-hope candidate like Liam Fox, the UK further became a laughing stock.
Despite his abject ineptitude, Fox seems to be one of the survivors of the modern Tory Party, having managed to hang on in Parliament and in government circles for the last 10 years and more.
Let us hope this finishes him off and he retires to the obscurity he so richly deserves.
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Boris Johnson’s government has got into the annoying habit of calling everything it does “world-beating”.
We’ve had “world-beating” PPE procurement (with hundreds of millions spent on equipment that can’t be used).
There was a “world-beating” Covid-19 track and trace app (that failed utterly and has been withdrawn).
Its replacement was also a “world-beating” privatised track and trace system (that has been scaled down in ignominious failure).
Now, at long last, it seems Johnson has a couple of statistics that he can genuinely describe as “world-beating”.
Are you ready?
The UK is now in the deepest economic recession it has ever recorded, and the worst of all the G7 countries.
And:
The UK’s Covid-19 death rates is the worst in the world.
The two are linked, of course, by Johnson’s failure to engage with the threat of Covid-19 when he was warned about it in November 2019; if he had taken appropriate steps, bringing in the equipment needed to treat the disease well in advance of the need to use it and locking down the country hard for the few weeks that would have been necessary to control the outbreak in the UK and stop infected people from bringing it in from outside, fewer people would have died and the economy would have recovered by now. Look at New Zealand for evidence of that.
It makes Johnson’s words at the start of the year ring hollow:
Remember: when he tweeted this, he had already been warned about Covid-19 and had ignored those warnings.
Now – well, let’s look at the information:
Johnson has guided the UK into the deepest recession since records began. The Office for National Statistics said gross domestic product (GDP), the broadest measure of economic prosperity, fell in the second quarter by 20.4 per cent compared with the previous three months – the biggest quarterly decline since comparable records began in 1955.
Oh – and GDP had declined by 2.2 per cent in the first quarter, so this represents a decline followed by a plummet.
The economic calamity was more than double the 10.6 per cent fall in the US over the same period and also surpassed declines in France, Germany and Italy among G7 nations that have reported second-quarter figures so far. Canada and Japan have yet to publish second-quarter data but are not expected to record greater falls than Britain. “World-beating”?
Looking at the details, the services sector, including hotels, restaurants and finance, recorded a 19.9 per cent drop, and production (manufacturing, mining and energy) fell by 16.9 per cent.
Despite having been kept open by Johnson, construction fell by a whopping 35 per cent.
Spending – by households and businesses – declined by a quarter because people simply didn’t have the money. It’s interesting to note that spending fell by five per cent more than income for those who had been furloughed.
The Guardian‘s report seems to lay the blame on Johnson:
After resisting the launch of lockdown controls until later than other countries around the world and relaxing them at a slower pace, the ONS said the UK had plunged into the deepest decline of any G7 nation in the second quarter.
And other commentators aren’t holding back, either:
Here it is in chart form. The UK's 20.4% contraction in GDP (that bar on the far right hand side) compared with every other quarterly GDP growth number back to 1920. We've never seen anything like this. pic.twitter.com/yf4p6jUkUL
The figures show that GDP has fallen to 2003 levels – 17 years lost due to Tory incompetence.
The good news is that the recession is likely to be the shortest in history, as economic activity has picked up since June, when Johnson began to allow businesses to reopen.
The bad news is that there are predictions of a new wave of coronavirus infections and deaths – already the numbers are worsening:
UK coronavirus death toll jumps by 102 and cases rise by more than 1,000 again – Mirror Onlinehttps://t.co/4XXbXbTADr
And don’t forget that in four-and-a-half months the full effect of Brexit will hit the UK, when the country will impose on itself the equivalent of enormous economic sanctions because racists like Boris Johnson lied to us that foreigners were interfering in our lives:
The U.K. is now officially in recession. In four and a half months, we become the first country in history to impose economic sanctions on itself. ‘World-beating’ doesn’t come close.
No doubt the collapse that results in 2021 will be “world-beating” too.
Given all of the above, I can only echo the words of Peter Stefanovic:
Is it any wonder Boris Johnson is trying to distract us by pointing his finger at desperate migrants in dinghies?
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Liz Truss: the queen of cheese is warning that Boris Johnson’s Brexit will cause serious problems.
Boris Johnson’s Brexit border plans could break international trading rules, risk the UK’s international credibility, and lead to smuggling from the European Union, it has been alleged.
And just so you know this is a serious matter, the warning comes in a leaked letter written by the minister best-known – and ridiculed – for her own unnatural obsession with cheese.
Liz Truss – for it was she – outlined four “key areas of concerns” [sic] about the government’s plans to leave EU trading and custom rules at the end of 2020, in a letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove.
Here’s UK Business Insider:
Truss said the plans could create a series of logistical, political, and reputational risks for the government, including:
A legal challenge from the World Trade Organisation.
Increased smuggling from the EU if not all UK ports are ready to carry out checks.
Concerns over the union if EU tariffs are applied to all goods heading to Northern Ireland by “default.”
The undermining of the UK’s international trade policy.
The whole is likely to make the UK even more of an international laughing-stock than it is now – and that’s frankly amazing because other nations have been laughing at us for years.
They can see what happens when a nation falls into neoliberal decline for more than 40 years.
By the end, it has no public services to call its own, no manufacturing industry, no trading partners, no talent and no credibility.
And the members of the Tory government are prime examples of the philosophy that led to this collapse.
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Firstly: it isn’t news that the UK pension is the lowest in the developed world. The OECD has been telling us this since at least 2017.
The statistic has come to light again because there is pressure to improve the situation in the 2020 Budget, due to be announced very soon.
It is a forlorn hope.
In case everybody has forgotten, the government has been increasing the pension age over the last few years – and will continue to do so well into the future – because it doesn’t have enough cash to pay everybody currently eligible.
That’s what the WASPI protests have been about – the fact that the government suddenly forced them to wait periods of several years in some cases, putting them severely out-of-pocket.
But here’s the operative question: if all the other countries in the developed world can pay more, why can’t the fifth-largest economy in the whole world?
Doesn’t it indicate that our leaders for the last several decades – going back to… I don’t know… 1979 at least – have squandered our cash on stupid things like tax breaks for people who are obscenely rich, when they should have been investing it in our future?
Doesn’t it indicate that, as a certain billboard campaign puts it, we have been led by donkeys?
The people ultimately responsible were called Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May and Johnson.
Isn’t it time we laid the blame where it’s due and demanded sensible redress for their stupidity?
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Theresa May visiting India last year. Who knows? She may have been buying shares in Indian companies; people like her know how to land on their feet [Image: Getty].
This is the result of Conservative economics; they simply don’t know how to run a country.
All that tommyrot about the nation’s economy being like a household budget was an indication of the way the wind was blowing.
But those of us who knew it was nonsense didn’t expect the Tories themselves to believe it.
Well, it seems they do.
And Brexit will make matters worse – the unforeseen and unwanted result of an internal squabble within the Conservative Party.
It will weaken the economy to an extent we do not yet know. The prediction in the Mirror article, quoted below, is that it won’t be as bad as many expect and the UK will bounce back above France (while remaining below India), to be the world’s number six economy again.
But you’d be a fool to expect that under a Conservative government.
India has leapfrogged Britain and France to become the world’s fifth biggest economy.
The Asian giant seized the spot as the UK prepares for Brexit, according to the 2018 World Economic League Table.
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