Ɖ Gardịn vy on Cir Starmr’z spīć: startñ t stand fr smʈñ
(Transcription of an editorial published in the Guardian on 27 September 2022)
Ɖ Tōriz hv crietd a dīpli unīql cuntri wɖ felñ srṿsz. Ɖ Lebr līdr’z confṛns’dres set ǎt a viźn v a difṛnt stet
Tyzde 27 Sptmbr 2022
Sr Cir Starmr’z confṛnșpīć in Liṿpul wz hiz frst az līdr t b emd sqerli at votrz rɖr ɖn partideḷgets. H hz spent mć v ɖ last tū yirz ruʈlisli tîṭnñ hiz grip ovr ɖ parti mśīn. Ɖs wīc h sìld hiz vicṭri ovr hiz intrnl oponnts bî drepñ ɖ yńn jac ovr ɖ stej n gtñ hiz parti t sñ ɖ naśnl anʈm. Sr Cir’z ax́nz wr nt a rpydieśn v ɖ parti’z inṭnaśṇlizm, bt an imbres v ɖ neśn so it cn b rīcast in a “fẹrr, grīnr” we.
H dd tec a swîp at hiz left-wñ critics, seyñ Lebr nǎ pt “cuntri frst, parti secnd”. Bt h trênd hiz gunz on ɖ Tōriz, akzñ ɖm v ptñ slf-inṭrest bfr neśn. H argyd ɖt Britn dz nt hv t b, az ɖ Tōriz hv md it, a dīpli unīql cuntri wɖ a stet ɖt canot pṛvîd besic srṿsz. Ɖ guvnmnt’s ic̣nomic inepttyd riscs hayr infleśn n scîroc̣tñ inṭrestrets. Sr Cir spouc v a wmn telñ him: “I d’nt jst wont t svîv; I wont t liv” – wrdz ɖt wl reẓnet wɖ mni votrz hu fīl ɖe hv wrct hard bt got nʈñ in rtrn.
Lebr’z welcm mesij wz ɖt ɖ guvnmnt rmenz an indispnsbl actr in ptñ ʈñz rît. Sr Cir’z anaḷsis z ɖt hu cntrolz ɖ naśnl icoṇmi, n t ẃt end, z importnt. Lîc anɖr Lebr līdr – Haṛld Wilsn – campenñ olmst 60 yirz ago t win pǎr aftr a deced in ɖ wilḍnis, Sr Cir plejd t rīforj ɖ cuntri. Ẃr-az Wilsn yzd ɖ “ẃît hīt” v ɖ sạntific reṿluśn, tde Lebr wonts Britn t bcm a “grīn-groʈ sūṗpǎr”. At ɖ hart v ɖ plan z a stet-ǒnd cumṗni, “Gret Britiś Eṇji”, ɖt wd criet 1m ny jobz. Hiz rfreśñ arğmnt, hond bî hiz colīg Ed Miḷband, z ɖt ɖ stet cn dplô rnywbl eṇji qcr – n capćr mor v its beṇfits – ɖn f ɖ job wz left t foṛn stet-ǒnd enttiz n prîṿt-eqti actrz.
Sr Cir rápt hiz poḷtics in ɖ flag fr a rīzn: t cōl ǎt prîṿt inṭrests ɖt ɖ Tōriz hv fevrd, bt ẃć unḍmain naśnl cḿṇti. Lebr hz set a targit v rezñ homǒnrśp t 70% wɖ “a ny set v p’liticl ćôsz” ɖt wd stop landlordz n landspekletrz goḅlñ p ny hǎzñstoc. Sr Cir tućt on iniqoḷti, hîlîtñ ɖ rǒl ɖ Siti plez bî rêsñ ahd ẃl “ɖ rest v ɖ cuntri stagnets”. Ɖ Lebr līdr z no popylist, bt in emḟsîzñ ɖ neśn h fōrgrǎndz a poḷtics v ɖ mni agnst ɖ fy.
Ɖr z a denjr ɖt Lebr fōlz intu ɖ trap v riax́nri naśṇlizm. Ẃl ptñ ɖ îdīa v Britn at ɖ sntr v poḷtics mt apil t votrz – ispeṣ́li oldr wnz – in Ñgḷnd, it hz les pl in Scotḷnd. Sr Cir nīdz a consttyśnl ansr t ɖs cnundṛm; bt hiz spīć dd nt ofr wn. Līvñ ɖ YY wz an act v slf-harm bt h ʈncs ɖr’z no we bac. Brexitrz dres p pro-gloḅlîześn poḷsiz in naśṇlist cloɖz. Ɖ Lebr līdr plenli fīlz h hz litl ćôs bt t ofr a Lebr Brexit – v betr wrc, hayr wejz, n a modn NHS – az an oltrṇtiv t ɖ Tori wn.
Gvn ɖ inṭvnśnz bî ɖ stet sins ɖ pandemic, wn mt hv hopt h wd rstor public srṿsz at līst t ɖer pri-2010 formz. Unforćṇtli fr Britn, ɖ Lebr līdr sd hiz “sǎnd fînans” planz mnt h cd nt fix ɖ fełrz v a deced eni tîm sn. Lebr, it sīmz, c’nt jst b ɖ parti v ɖ larjr stet. It hz t b ɖ parti v a difṛnt stet. Sr Cir z startñ t stand fr smʈñ. Sm wd lîc him t b boldr. Bt hiz spīć wz gd nyz fr ɖ cuntri in wn importnt we: Sr Cir hz a betr grip on ɖ preznt ɖn ɖoz h sīcs t rples.
