Brexit z ɖ viḷn in axdntl deʈ v ɖ icoṇmi
(Transcription of an Observer article of 6 August 2023)
Lîc caṛctrz in Dario Fo’z fars, w cmplen abt, bt toḷret, ɖ most daṃjñ p’liticl scandl v ǎr tîm
Súnde, 6 Ōġst 2023
At ɖ bginñ v ɖ frst Ʈaćr guvnmnt (1979-83), ɖ icoṇmist Jon Ceniʈ Galbrêʈ rout ɖt Britn wz ɖ prfict ples t conduct ɖ dybịs muniṭrist xperimnt rec̣mndd bî hiz felo icoṇmist Miltn Frīdmn. Ɖs wz bcz olɖo Galbrêʈ (rîtli) ʈt ɖ poḷsi wz crezi, Britiś “flém” wd si s ʈru, n ɖ tolṛnt neśn wd nt “tec t ɖ strīts”.
Ɖs meṃri cem t mînd rīsntli ẃn I wz at ɖ rvîvl v ɖt gret 1970z clasic Axdntl Deʈ v an Aṇcist. Dario Fo n Franca Rame’z fars hz bn updetd bî Tom Bazdn, n z a fîv-star trîumf. Ɖ meṃri wz ivoct bî ɖ sntṛl caṛctr, ɖ “meńac”, dclerñ: “Scandl z t ssayti ẃt cnfeśn z t ɖ sinr. It’s a cʈarsis [ɖt] fixz nʈñ: ɖ hostîl invîrnmnts, ɖ suij in ɖ sīz, ɖ piṛjz fr p’liticl donrz. N ẃt’s ɖ rzult? D w arest enwn? Cn w ćenj enʈñ? V cors nt … In glorịs dmocṛsiz sć az ǎrz, w gt t mon abt it instd.”
Ɖ most glẹrñ xampl v ɖs public tolṛns n monñ z v cors – wêt fr it – Brexit. Ɖ damij mǎnts, bt ɖr hz bn nʈñ in ɖ śep v a public inqîri or a royl cmiśn intu ẃt z indybitbli ɖ bigist n most daṃjñ p’liticl n ic̣nomic scandl v ǎr tîm.
Az ɖ “meńac” obzrvz: “Ɖ actrz ćenj, v cors, bt ɖ rǒlz rmen ɖ sem.” Ɖ miscrịnts hu cónd ɖ neśn – Boris Jonsn; Mîcl “Ppl hv hd inuf v xprts” Gov; Nîjl “Hǎ I luv ɖ lîmlît” F’rāź; Dańl “Brexit wl nt mīn līvñ ɖ sngl marcit, n ʈancs fr ɖ pirij” Hann; n a cast v ʈǎzndz – jst cari on śemlisli, ẃl ɖer rplesmnts, Riśi Sūnac n co, tec p ɖ banr, n Cir Starmr, wns a nobl rmenr, ofndz hiz naćṛl folowrz bî rūlñ ǎt rījônñ ɖ YY or īvn ɖ sngl marcit.
Ǒ, d’nt wuri, I am tld. Wns ɖe r in – f, az wîdli xpctd, ɖe win – Lebr wl mnd rleśnz wɖ ɖ YY. Bt, hañ on a minit: unls sm amezñ ivnt ocŕz, ɖr z unlîcli t b an ilex́n fr at līst anɖr yir, jrñ ẃć tîm Brexit wl rīc mor n mor damij, nt līst t ɖ cuntri’z fiscl pziśn.
Ẃć brñz s t ɖ topic ɖt hz bn doṃnetñ ɖ ic̣nomic nyz in ɖ past wīc: ɖ hî levl v inṭrestrets w r promist fr ɖ fōrsiybl fyćr on acǎnt v ɖ guvnmnt’s n ɖ Banc v Ñgḷnd’z dtrṃneśn t brñ ɖ ret v infleśn dǎn t 2% wɖn ẃt z noun az ɖ “fōrcastpirịd” – 18 munʈs t tū yirz – īvn at ɖ cost v rseśn.
Nǎ, ẃn ɖe r nt tayñ ɖmslvz p in sttisticl nóts, mî felo icoṇmists fṛm tîm t tîm rmînd s ɖt ẃt īc̣nomics śd riyli b abt z ɖ qoḷti v lîf. Mî frend Emos Witztum, in hiz mońmntl wrc Ɖ Btreyl v Libṛl Īc̣nomics, argyz forsḟli ɖt tù mć atnśn z peid t ic̣nomic groʈ, n nt inuf t a fer distṛbyśn v ic̣nomic rzorsz. “Distṛbyśn” hz v cors bn ɖ stuf v p’liticl dbet fr decedz, bt lîf z nt gwñ t gt eni īzịr f ǎtpt stagnets or fōlz, ẃć, bî deḟniśn, it dz jrñ a rseśn.
Ɖ teribl ʈñ z ɖt aftr imbarcñ on a nīdlis poḷsi v osteṛti fṛm 2010, n ɖen biyñ brǎbìtn intu a reḟrendm ɖe òt t rgret fr ɖ rest v ɖer livz, īvn ɖ non-mnaycl Toriz hv dn mć t dminiś ɖ qoḷti v lîf in ɖs cuntri.
Ẃ z infleśn so mć gretr a ʈret hir ɖn in ɖ YS or ɖ YY? Bcz v Brexit n its impact on ɖ cost v livñ. Indd, impndñ frɖr incrisz in ɖ cost v importñ fūd fṛm ɖ YY r olrdi frîṭnñ ɖ guvnmnt intu dleyñ ɖ nxt bǎt v byṛcratic reğleśnz rqîrd bî ɖ foli v Brexit.
Wn fînl, non-Brexit, xampl v nīdlis inṭfiṛns in ɖ qoḷti v lîf. In comn wɖ mni ppl v a srtn ej, I lîc bcñ trenticits fṛm a riyl prsn in a riyl ticit ofis. Indd, I am mć imprest bî ɖ cntińl flo v rsrć ẃć inḍcets ɖt sć sośl inṭćenjz r gd fr wn’z qoḷti v lîf.
Bt ɖr z anɖr pônt: in an ej ẃn corṗreśnz hv fūld “cnsymrz” intu ʈncñ ɖt ɖe śd d ɖ wrc on ɖ inṭnet, it z mć mor saṭsfayñ – n ifiśnt – t rlî on xprts t advîz wn wɖ travl arenjmnts. Yt w r tld ɖt ɖ guvnmnt hz instructd ɖ trencumṗniz t bgin clozñ ol ɖer ticit ofisz.
I īvn hŕd an ofiśl seyñ on ɖ Tde program ɖt ɖs wd b an impruvmnt in ifiśnsi n wd fri stāf t b on ɖ platform t hlp “custmrz” wɖ qiriz. Hǎ pasinjrz wd b ebl t gt on t ɖ platform wɖt a ticit fṛm ɖ clozd ticit ofis wz nt xplend.
