Ɖ Gardịn vy on ɖ Cnsrṿtivz: a parti wɖt a project
(Transcription of an editorial published in the Guardian on Friday 13 May 2022)
Boris Jonsn’z guvnmnt hd an oṗtyṇti t set an ilex́nwinñ cors ɖs wīc. Bt it z onli inṭrestd in steyñ in ofis
Frîde, 13 Me 2022
Ɖs hz bn a big wīc in Britiś poḷtics. F ɖt mcs y fir y hv míst smʈñ, d’nt wuri. Y hv nt. Fr ɖt z jst ɖ pônt. Ɖs wz an importnt wīc fr Boris Jonsn’z guvnmnt t start trayñ t rgen cntrol v ɖ p’liticl ajnda. Bt ɖ Cnsrṿtiv eḟt hz nt got of t a gd start. Ɖt fełr matrz, bcz it wl śep ǎr poḷtics.
Wɖn ɖ nxt tū yirz, ɖr wl b anɖr jenṛl ilex́n. Ɖs munʈ’z locl ilex́nz cnfrmd ɖt it wl nt b an īzi wn fr ɖ Tori parti. Ɖ Tōriz lost sīts t Lebr n ɖ Libṛl Deṃcrats n sìdd hard-wún grǎnd in Scotḷnd, Wêlz n Ñgḷnd. Sins it z lîcli t b ɖ last wn v substns in ɖs parḷmnt, ɖ rīsnt Qīn’z spīć nīdd t b foc̣st on ɖ jenṛl ilex́n. Yt it trnd ǎt t hv vri litl foc̣s at ol.
Ɖ spīć’z emlis aproć wz rvilñ. Ɖr wr a lot v anǎnsmnts, bt no ilex́ņaṛtiv. Ɖs sz a lot abt Mr Jonsn’z parti tde. Ɖ prîm̦inistr tōcs insesntli, bt dz litl ɖt lasts. Hiz ny program z a ragbag. It rflects a parti ɖt hz bcm unebl t artiklet, in eni yṇfaid we, ẃt it z in guvnmnt t aćiv. It hz no project bynd steyñ in pǎr.
Ɖ Tori parti tde z bst unḍstd az a lūs n voḷtîl alayns btwn oṿlapñ rîvlgrūps. Ɖ rîvlriz start at ɖ top, btwn a prîm̦inistr hu wonts t spend n a ćanslr hu dz nt. Bt, at a tîm ẃn ic̣nomic hardśp z mǎntñ so fast n lîcli t cntiny, ɖ bulc v ɖ cabiṇt rmen xtrim public-spendñ cutrz.
Ol ɖs hlps t xplen ɖ anǎnsmnt md on Ʈrzde ɖt 91,000 sivl-srvis jobz mst b axt so ɖt taxz cn b cut. V ol ɖ prîoṛtiz fesñ Britn, slaśñ ɖ public srvis bî a fifʈ z wn ɖt śd b at ɖ bac v ɖ k. Ɖ cut z îdịlojicl, arbitrri, unsṗsific n, in ɖ contxt v cuṛnt naśnl n inṭnaśnl nīdz n guvnmntcmitmnts, it z olmst misṭfayñ.
It z hard t sqer ɖ cut wɖ ɖ nīd t cǒp wɖ sć riaḷtiz az spîṛlñ welfér dmandz, ɖ nīd t rībild ɖ NHS or t le ɖ fǎndeśnz v sośl-cer rform. It z pvrs ẃn sìn in ɖ contxt v ɖ dlez n byrocṛsi fesñ biznis n inḍstri az a rzult v Brexit. It mcs sns onli az a hedlîn flaś v reṭric fr ɖ parti’s rît wñ. It solvz prisîsli nʈñ, includñ ɖ Tori pridic̣mnt xpozd in ɖ locl ilex́nz.
It wz sgnificnt ɖt ɖ formr hlʈ n foṛn secṛtri Jeṛmi Hunt ćouz Frîde t brec cuvr n ofr ɖ Tori parti a glims v a les bancrupt aproć. Acnoḷjñ ɖ scel v ɖ tasc ɖt ɖ Tori parti nǎ fesz, Mr Hunt drù a d’rect cnx́n btwn cuts in ɖ NHS n traɉdiz lîc ɖ Mid-Stafs. scandl. Ɖ toṗcaḷti v hiz wornñ ɖt ɖ parti fesz dfit f it ofrz votrz a ćôs btwn a proprli fundd NHS n taxcuts wz unmistecbl on a de ẃn ɖ guvnmnt hd jst dn prisîsli ɖt.
Ɖs wīc wz importnt bcz v Mr Jonsn’z fełr. Jst lîc eni intîtld Bourbon h hz lrnt nʈñ n fgotn nʈñ. H sīmz dtrmind t b ɖ oʈr v hiz ǒn dfit. Hiz fełr signlz frɖr Tori dfits at ɖ poulz, rnyd añzayti on ɖ bacbnćz, n a poṣbl līdrśp contest, in ẃć Mr Hunt z lîcli t stand. In sć grim ic̣nomic tîmz, ɖ Tori parti’z fortynz me no longr b in ɖer ǒn handz, bt in ɖoz v ɖ opziśnpartiz n, most v ol, ɖoz v ɖ public.
