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Do not go gentle into Brexit shite.
Just look at how it’s ruined the UK.
Rage, rage against the lying of the Right.

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Leave voters fell for snake-oil salesmen’s hype,
Choosing to ignore the voice of sanity,
Do not go gentle into Brexit shite.

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But Murdoch, Johnson, Farage and their like
Spread hatred, fear, deceit and disarray.
Rage, rage against the lying of the Right.

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Nor did Remainers go without a fight,
Campaigning, marching, exhorting every day,
Do not go gentle into Brexit shite.

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Old Remainers, although with fading sight,
Can still see clearly we were right to say,
Rage, rage against the lying of the Right.

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Curses on the villains who caused our plight.
Let British bells toll their demise, I pray.
Do not go gentle into Brexit shite.
Rage, rage against the lying of the Right.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

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In Ñspel: The Observer view on Boris Johnson’s resignation: the Tory party is complicit in this disaster

Boris Johnson’s actions were described as ‘Trumpian’ by a former adviser. Photograph: Jay Janner/AP
Boris Jonsn’z ax́nz wr dscrîbd az ‘Trumpịn’ bî a formr advîzr. Foṭgraf: Je Janr/AP
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Ɖ Obzrvr vy on Boris Jonsn’z reẓgneśn: ɖ Tori parti z cmplisit in ɖs dzastr

(Transcription of a Guardian editorial of 11 June 2023)

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Hiz dparćr śd promt rflex́n amñ sīńr Cnsrṿtivz abt hǎ n ẃ ɖe s’portd him fr so loñ

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Súnde, 11 Jūn 2023

Boris Jonsn rzînz az h guvnd: in a blits v misinḟmeśn, abjecli felñ t axpt rsponsbiḷti fr roñduwñ, n lacñ in īvn a śred v integṛti. Ɖ stetmnt h iśùd on Frîde īvnñ anǎnsñ h wz standñ dǎn fṛm parḷmnt wɖ imīɉt ifct wz caṛcṭristicli greslis, bitr n dsitfl. Ɖo h hintd h wd lîc t mc a p’liticl cm-bac, hiz wɖdrwl fṛm Britiś p’liticl lîf z loñ oṿdy

It z an increḍbl trn in p’liticl fortyn fr a formr prîm̦inistr hu les ɖn for yirz ago wún a jenṛl ilex́n wɖ an 80-sīt mjoṛti. Ʈri yirz lêtr h wz forst t rzîn aftr biyñ faind bî ɖ p’līs fr brecñ ɖ locdǎn reğleśnz h xpctd evrwn els t cmplî wɖ, smtmz at unʈnc̣bl prsnl cost. Nǎ aftr siyñ a draft v ɖ priṿlijz cmiti vrdict on ẃɖr h intnśṇli msléd parḷmnt, h hz dsîdd t step dǎn az a MP oltgɖr. Ɖs implîz ɖt ɖs crosparti cmiti v MPz – ćerd bî ɖ rspctd Lebr MP Harịt Harman, n wɖ a mjoṛti v Cnsrṿtiv parḷmnterịnz – hz md sirịs fîndñz in rleśn t ɖ ćarj ɖt Jonsn msléd MPz ẃn h tld ɖm ɖr hd bn no sośl gaɖ̇rñz n no brecñ v locdǎn rūlz in Dǎnñ Strīt jrñ hiz premịrśp. Jonsn hz beslisli akzd ɖm v a “wićhunt” n v biyñ a “canġrucort”, n clemd h z biyñ “forst ǎt v parḷmnt bî a tîni grūp v ppl”. Yt ɖ priṿlijzcmiti invstgeśn wz deṃcraticli mandetd bî MPz; ɖ cmiti hz no pǎrz t fors Jonsn t step dǎn, onli t rec̣mnd t ɖ Comnz sañśnz ɖt cn includ a sspnśn, wɖ wn v mor ɖn 10 dez triġrñ a rcōl ptiśn ɖt cd līd t a bîilex́n. Onli ɖ Comnz cn c’lectivli impoz ɖ rec̣mndd sañśn on Jonsn, ʈru a vot. Onli hiz cnstitẏnts cn unsīt him, ʈru a bîilex́n.

Jonsn hz voḷntṛli rzînd rɖr ɖn fes a vot fṛm hiz pirz in ɖ Comnz or a ptnśl bîilex́n, ẃć rɖr implîz h nz h lacs ɖ s’port v MPz n v votrz. It z hiz lîz ɖt r ɖ blît on Britiś dmocṛsi, nt ɖ fer proses ɖt MPz ilectd t set in tren. Hiz formr advîzr Wíl Wōldṛn’z caṛcṭrîześn v hiz rfyzl t tec rsponsbiḷti fr hiz ax́nz az “Trumpịn” z jusṭfaid. Xtrordnṛli, ɖ sem de Jonsn rzînd in dsgres, hiz prîm̦iṇstirịl reẓgneśn onrzlist wz publiśt, grantñ piṛjz n uɖr onrz t hiz p’liticl alîz, sm v hūm olso brouc locdǎn reğleśnz. It z funḍmnṭli antīdeṃcratic ɖt ɖ grant v a lîftîm intîtlmnt t sit n vot in parḷmnt śd b in ɖ gift v eni formr prîm̦inistr, let alon wn az dscredtd az Jonsn.

Jonsn z gn fṛm fruntlîn poḷtics, bt votrz wl hv t liv wɖ ɖ leġsi v ɖ wrst prîm̦inistr in livñ meṃri fr decedz t cm. H hz left ʈri lastñ blîts on Britn. Ɖ frst z Brexit. Jonsn s’portd līvñ ɖ YY bcz it sūtd hiz līdrśp ambiśnz; h wz wn v ɖ ci arc̣tecs v a popylist campen ɖt msléd ɖ public ɖt Brexit wd rstor Britiś sovṛnti, mc s rićr, rdys levlz v iṃgreśn n fri p vałbl rzorsz fr public srṿsz. Aftr ɖ reḟrendm, h oṗtynisticli imbrest a hard Brexit ɖt nwn votd fr t bild hiz ǒn p’liticl bes n mnūvr himslf intu Numbr 10. Az a rzult, Brexit hz bn aćivd bt at ɖ xpns v sgnificnt ic̣nomic groʈ, gretr rījnl iqoḷti, n reğletri acord btwn Norɖn Îrḷnd n ɖ rest v ɖ YC. It wl mc s purr ovr ɖ loñ trm.

Secnd z ɖ teribl we hiz guvnmnt handld ɖ Covid pandemic. Mć z noun abt ɖ mstecs ɖt wr md: nt wns – phps unḍstanḍbli gvn ɖ unsrtnti involvd – bt rpitidli impozñ sośl rstrix́nz tù lêt in a we ɖt nseṣtetd tufr rstrix́nz fr longr lêtr on, at gretr ic̣nomic cost, n in a we ɖt wl hv cost sm ppl ɖer livz. Ɖ indipndnt inqîri wl pṛdys ofiśl fîndñz in ɖ nxt fy yirz, bt hvñ a grosli incompitnt prîm̦inistr in ofis jrñ a pirịd v intns naśnl crîsis wl hv lastñ consiqnsz.

Ɖ last aspect v hiz leġsi z hiz dbesmnt v ɖ prínsiplz v public lîf ɖt form ɖ besis v ɖ eʈicl standdz votrz hv ɖ rît t xpct fṛm ɖoz hu hold public ofis. Fṛm unlwḟli sspndñ parḷmnt ẃn it rfyzd t d hiz bidñ, t layñ t ɖ public abt ẃɖr hiz Brexit dīl wd involv custmzćecs in ɖ Îriś sī; fṛm brecñ hiz ǒn locdǎn reğleśnz t bacñ bŭliyñ ministrz hu wr indipndntli faund t hv brocn ɖ miṇstirịl cod, Jonsn hz prizîdd ovr a dclîn in integṛti, oṇsti n acǎntbiḷti in public ofis n hz unḍmaind trust in deṃcratic insttyśnz.

Hiz dparćr fṛm ɖ Comnz śd promt rflex́n amñ sīńr Cnsrṿtivz abt hǎ n ẃ ɖe s’portd him t rmen in Numbr 10 fr so loñ. Ɖt dsiźn cd hv sirịs consiqnsz fr ɖm at ɖ nxt ilex́n az ɖ ifcts v Brexit cntiny t mc ɖmslvz flt on ɖ icoṇmi n ɖ Covid inqîri starts t pṛdys inṭrim fîndñz. Ɖe wd b rićli dzrvd: ɖ hol v ɖ Cnsrṿtiv parti z cmplisit in ɖ dzastrz v ɖ Jonsn premịrśp.

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Instroduction to Ñspel

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

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Fṛm Đ Obzrvr: Even Farage says Brexit has failed. Why won’t Starmer?

Keir Starmer on visit to Scotland last week. Photograph: Euan Cherry/PA
Cir Starmr on vizit t Scotḷnd last wīc. Foṭgraf: Ywn Ćeri/PA
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Īvn F’rāź sz Brexit hz feld. Ẃ w’nt Starmr?

(Transcription of an Observer article of 28 May 2023)

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Az evri sectr cǎnts ɖ mǎntñ cost v ǎr caṭstrofic brec wɖ Yṛp, Lebr mst fînd its nrv

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William Keegan
Wiłm Cīgn

Súnde 28 Me 2023

Ẃt d mî frendz ɖ ḿziśnz Stñ, Jon Eʈ̇rij n Tom MGinis (v ɖ Manfridz) hv in comn, apart fṛm ḿzic? Ɖe hv rīsntli tld m ɖe r witṇsñ frst-hand ɖ fṛstreśnz v Brexit: los v ɖ beṇfits v frīdm v muvmnt, n ɖ byṛcratic damij inflictd on wn v ɖs cuntri’z wîdli rec̣gnîzd streñʈs, nemli ɖ crietiv arts.

In ɖs ɖe r jônd bî most Britiś mańfacćrrz n membrz v ɖ hosṗtaḷti inḍstri. Ɖz r struġlñ t fînd rplesmnts fr ɖ YY wrcrz hu hv bn md t fīl unwelcm n hv bn ifctivli bánd, or votd wɖ ɖer fīt. Ol ɖer wd-bi imployrz ʈnc Brexit z hyjli daṃjñ t ɖer rspctiv bizṇsz, n wd lîc t rvrs it.

Morovr, ɖe canot unḍstand ẃ ɖ Lebr parti z biyñ so wet on ɖ iśu. Wn hírz ɖ vy ɖt Cir Starmr z pleyñ a cōśs n clevr gem. Bt wn olso hírz ɖ vy ɖt, fr ol ɖ eḟts v Starmr n śadoćanslr Rećl Rīvz t cnvins ɖ public ɖt Lebr hz a viźn, ɖs viźn z cmñ acrs az biyñ smẃt blŕd, n misṭli cnfyzñ.

At a tîm ẃn opińnpoulz śo ɖt clir mjoṛtiz v rspondnts ʈnc Brexit wz a mstec, n wn v ɖ prîm culprits, ɖ igrījs Nîjl F’rāź, admits ɖt “Brexit hz feld”, Lebr sīmz teṛfaid v sizñ ɖ oṗtyṇti v a p’liticl lîftîm, n simpli gwñ fr rījônñ.

Bfr w cntiny, it śd b notd ɖt, inevitbli, F’rāź blemz evrwn bt himslf fr ɖ dzastr v Brexit, n śoz no sînz, az yt, v flfilñ hiz promis t “liv abrōd” f Brexit pruvd t b ɖ dzastr it indybitbli z.

Ɖ ultiṃt îṛni, az ɖ formr YY cmiśnr fr comṗtiśn Mario Monti rmîndd s in ɖ Fînanśl Tîmz, z ɖt “ɖ beṇfits v sć a s’xesfl project [ɖ sngl marcit], huz peṛnts wr tū Britiś poḷtiśnz (prîm̦inistr Marġrit Ʈaćr n cmiśnr Arʈr Cǒfīld) wd ivnć̣li b gvn p bî ɖ YC az part v Brexit”.

I canot rfren fṛm rmîndñ ppl v ǎr Brexitr prîm̦inistr Riśi Sūnac’s Frôdịn slip in pôntñ ǎt t ɖ ōcẉd sqod in ɖ Norɖn Îriś Deṃcratic Yńnist parti ɖt bî biyñ in ɖ YC n ɖ sngl marcit ɖe hd ɖ bst v bʈ wrldz.

It z a comn rfren ɖt “ʈñz r gwñ t pot” n “nʈñ sīmz t b wrcñ proprli” – an xaɉreśn, phps, bt an unḍstanḍbl wn. Bt wn ʈñ z abundntli clir: ppl cn no longr blem ɖ YY fr ɖer trublz. Yirz v osteṛti n nglect r caćñ p wɖ s.

Ẃć brñz s bac t Lebr. I cmnd ɖ vy v Trevr Grīʈm v Royl Lundn: “Ẃl ɖr wz’nt a ‘Brexit diṿdnd’ ɖr wd srtnli b a ‘rvrsñ Brexit’ diṿdnd. Eni parti cmñ in t ofis wɖ a creḍbl promis t jôn ɖ sngl marcit, or ultiṃtli ɖ YY, wd b ebl t bes ɖer tax n spendñ planz on a sgnificntli larjr icoṇmi wɖ OBR apruvl” – a refṛns t ɖ Ofis fr Bujit Rsponsbiḷti’z wîdli axptd calkleśn ɖt ɖ macroec̣nomic cost v Brexit rîzz t abt 4% or £100bn a yir.

Ɖ oltrṇtiv, sz Grīʈm, z ɖ “osteṛti marc tū” olrdi pnsld in fr ɖs guvnmnt’s planz fr public spendñ śd it win ɖ nxt ilex́n.

Nǎ, ɖ damij biyñ cōzd bî Brexit z mǎntñ viẓbli bî ɖ de. Mî tū objx́nz t ɖoz poḷtiśnz n coḷmnists hu se it wl b yirz bfr w cn rījôn r, frst, ɖ damij z gaṛntìd t intnṣfî ẃn ɖ nxt stej v ɖ barịrz t tred cmz intu fors at ɖ end v ɖs yir, n, secnd, ɖr r stl ultṛrîtwñ Brexitrz hu r trayñ t infors ɖ abandnmnt v ʈǎzndz v YY lwz, ẃć wd mc it ɖt mć mor dificlt t ngośiet rientri. So far īvn Brexitr Sūnac hz wordd ɖm of on most iśuz, bt ɖoz YRG fnatics r stl hard at it.

Aftr ɖ sirñ xpirịns wɖ ɖ 2016 reḟrendm, ppl wuri abt ɖ gosts ɖt mt ri’pir f ɖr z anɖr. Bt ẃ boɖr? Edẉd Hīʈ sīmz t b rmembrd prinsipli fr ɖ ʈri-de wīc v 1973-74 n biyñ bròt dǎn bî ɖ mainrz. Bt h olso gz dǎn in hisṭri fr x’sîzñ ɖ līdrśp t tec s intu ẃt wz ɖen ɖ Yṛpiyn Ic̣nomic Cḿṇti in 1973 – it wz Haṛld Wilsn hu hld a reḟrendm in 1975 t recnsîl ɖ disidnts in ɖ Lebr parti. Msz Ʈaćr dd nt fīl ɖ nīd t hold a reḟrendm in 1986 ẃn w jônd ɖ sngl marcit.

In mî vy, Starmr śd cm ǎt stroñli, n sn, fr rientri. H śd mc it an ilex́n iśu, ẃl haṃrñ hom ɖ mǎntñ costs v a Brexit ćampịnd bî a felñ n toṭli dscredtd Cnsrṿtiv-Brexit parti.

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Instroduction to Ñspel

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

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In Ñspel: The Observer view on fuel poverty measures freezing out poorest Britons

Washing hangs outside to dry on a fence of a home in November. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty
S’xesiv Cnsrṿtiv ćanslrz hv irodd ɖ valy v ɖ fînanśl seftinet aveḷbl fr lo-peid peṛnts n dsebld ppl. Foṭgraf: Crisṭfr Frloñ/Geti
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Ɖ Obzrvr vy on fylpoṿti meźrz frizñ ǎt purist Brítnz

(Transcription of an Observer editorial of 27 Nov. 2022)

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Ny anaḷsis rvilz ɖ līst aflụnt nīd rjnt guvnmnt s’port ɖs wintr

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Súnde 27 Nvmbr 2022

Ɖs yir wl g dǎn az a yir v hardśp fr so mni ppl: 2022 bròt spîcñ eṇjibilz n record levlz v infleśn ɖt hv irodd ppl’z incmz. Bt az formr prîm̦inistr Gordn Brǎn wornz in tde’z Obzrvr, nxt yir wl b hardr stl n hardist fr lo-incm hǎsholdz, includñ les aflụnt pnśnrz, lo-peid peṛnts n ɖer ćildṛn n ppl wɖ dis’biḷtiz.

Ɖs z ɖ rzult v Britn’z rseśn, fōrcast bî ɖ Banc v Ñgḷnd t last tū yirz, n eṇjibilz ɖt r fōrcast t cntiny t rîz az guvnmnt s’port wɖ eṇjicosts fōlz. Fṛm nxt Epril, ɖ guvnmnt’s eṇjiprîs gaṛnti wl bcm les jenṛs, capñ ɖ aṿrij bil at £3,000 rɖr ɖn £2,500 a yir n ɖ yṇvrsl £400 wrʈ v s’port ɖt wz peid t ol hǎsholdz in wintr 2022 wl b wɖdrwn. T ofset ɖs rdux́n, ɖ guvnmnt hz incrist ɖ levl v tarġtd s’port at ɖoz in rsit v mīnz-tstd beṇfits: ol pnśnrz n ɖoz rsivñ dis’biḷtibeṇfits wl gt £300 n £150, az ɖe dd last yir, n ppl on mīnz-tstd beṇfits wl gt a wn-of pemnt v £900, p fṛm £650 last yir. So ɖr z les s’port t g rnd, bt it z mor tarġtd on lo-incm hǎsholdz.

Bt az Brǎn hîlîts in ny anaḷsis, ɖs wl stl līv xtrordnṛli hî numbrz v vulnṛbl faṃliz xpozd t fylpoṿti, dfînd az hǎsholdz peyñ 10% or mor v ɖer incm on eṇjibilz ć yir. Sevn in 10 pnśnrz r fōrcast t b xpirịnsñ fylpoṿti best on ɖs meźr bî nxt Epril, rîzñ t 96% v lon-peṛnt faṃliz wɖ tū or mor ćildṛn n 85% v cuplz wɖ ʈri or mor ćildṛn. Olmst 4 miłn faṃliz wl nīd t b spendñ jst undr a ʈrd v ɖer incm on eṇji t cīp worm, a cmplitli unsstenbl propziśn gvn ɖ costs v hǎzñ, fūd n uɖr isnślz.

Ɖ rīzn z ɖt, dspt ɖ guvnmnt mcñ eḟts t mc ɖ smōlr amǎnt v s’port on ofr mor tarġtd twdz purr hǎsholdz, it z a vri imprisîs we v gtñ s’port t ɖ hǎsholdz ɖt nīd it ɖ most, n līvz ǎt mni v ɖ hardist-up faṃliz. For in 10 v ɖ purist fifʈ v hǎsholdz r nt in rsit v mīnz-tstd beṇfits, so d nt īvn qoḷfî fr ɖ £900 top-up. Yzñ mīnz-tstd beṇfits az a pasport fr ɖs pemnt mīnz ɖt f a faṃli gz ovr ɖ beṇfitsʈreśhold bî jst £1, ɖe wl lūz ɖ £900 in its intîṛti. Last, eṇji ys z hayr ɖn aṿrij in purr hǎsholdz ɖt r larjr, or ẃr ppl liv in purli insyletd, bad-qoḷti hǎzñ – mor lîcli t b ɖ ces fr ppl livñ in poṿti in ɖ frst ples.

Ɖ ǎtcm z ɖt, īvn tecñ intu acǎnt ɖ mīnz-tstd s’portpacij, anaḷsis bî ɖ Reẓluśn Fǎndeśn śoz ɖt haf v hǎsholdz in ɖ purist fifʈ v ɖ incmdistṛbyśn wl stl b fesñ eṇjibilz v mor ɖn £1,000 mor ɖn ɖe dd in 2022. Ɖs xtra £1,000 z nt muni ɖe cn aford; so mni v ɖz indivijlz r olrdi livñ in imposbl srcmstansz, fesñ ćôsz btwn cīpñ ɖer homz worm or ptñ fūd on ɖ tebl fr ɖer ćildṛn, forst t rlî on fūdbancs bcz ɖe c’nt aford besic isnślz. It z ɖ purist hǎsholdz hu fes sm v ɖ hîist prîsz az wel, az a rzult v hvñ t rlî on prīpeid eṇjimītrz n t śop in smōlr n mor xpnsiv fūdśops bcz ɖe hv no trnsport t gt t ćīpr sūṗmarcits. Ɖ Reẓluśn Fǎndeśn hz esṭmetd ɖt ɖ purist 10ʈ v hǎsholdz r nǎ fesñ an ifctiv infleśnret v 12.5%, cmperd wɖ 9.6% fr ɖ rićist 10ʈ, ɖ bigist gap in ɖz rets sins 2006 ẃn ɖz meźrz wr c’lectd.

Ɖ prîm̦inistr n ćanslr wd no dǎt argy it z ǎt v ɖer handz; ɖe wd clem t hv dn az mć az ɖe cn gvn ɖ grim ic̣nomic srcmstansz ɖ cuntri fesz n ɖ crîsis in eṇjiprîsz cōzd bî Ruśa’z wor in Ycren. Ɖs z nt creḍbl fr ʈri rīznz. Frst, s’xesiv Cnsrṿtiv ćanslrz hv irodd ɖ valy v ɖ fînanśl seftinet aveḷbl fr lo-peid peṛnts n dsebld ppl, bî cutñ taxcredits n beṇfits ovr ɖ last deced ẃl gvñ awe xpnsiv taxcuts ɖt hv dispṛporśṇtli beṇfitd betr-of hǎsholdz. Ɖs hz md lo-incm hǎsholdz mć les fînanṣ́li rziłnt ovr ɖ loñ trm. Secnd, az Brǎn argyz, ɖr r obvịs sorsz v xtra reṿny aveḷbl t ɖ ćanslr, Jeṛmi Hunt, includñ taxñ nondomz n incrist taxz on bancrz’ boṇsz, huz rsits cd b ćanld az xtra s’port twdz ɖ purist hǎsholdz nxt yir. Ʈrd, Britn’z dredfl groʈprospects r nt jst a product v globl hedwindz, bt v 12 yirz v Cnsrṿtiv ic̣nomic poḷsi: a fełr t invst in prodctivti-būstñ meźrz sć az scilz n infṛstrucćr n ɖ îdịlojicl psyt v ɖ hardist form v Brexit ɖt hz left Britn – n evrwn hu livz in it – cnsidṛbli purr fr ɖ loñ trm.

Ɖ sićueśn fesñ Britn’z līst aflụnt faṃliz nxt yir z an ic̣nomic imrjnsi. Unls ɖ guvnmnt inṭvinz swiftli t incris levlz v s’port fṛm nxt Epril, mor ćildṛn, pnśnrz n ppl wɖ dis’biḷtiz wl b livñ in abject fylpoṿti, in frizñ homz, wɖ loñ-trm consiqnsz fr ɖer hlʈ. Ɖ guvnmnt mst hīd Gordn Brǎn’z wornñ, n act.

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Instroduction to Ñspel

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

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In Ñspel: Brexit has made Britain the sick man of Europe again

Rishi Sunak at the G20 summit this month. Of the G20 economies, only Russia’s is expected to perform worse than the UK’s. Photograph: Reuters
Riśi Sūnac at ɖ G20 sumit ɖs munʈ. V ɖ G20 icoṇmiz, onli Ruśa’z z xpctd t pform wrs ɖn ɖ YC’z. Foṭgraf: Rôtrz
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Brexit hz md Britn ɖ sic man v Yṛp agn

(Transcription of a Guardian article of 27 Nov. 2022)

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Ɖ YY dd wundrz fr ɖ icoṇmi: ɖt wz ẃ w jônd. Ǎr dparćr fṛm it z nǎ ol tù obvịsli costñ s ɖt pṛspeṛti

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William Keegan
Wiłm Cīgn

Wiłm Cīgn, Súnde 27 Nvmbr 2022

Ẃn rīsntli asct on ɖ Tde program t sáit ćaptr n vrs on ɖ subjict v Brexit “oṗtyṇtiz” Mîcl Gov, ɖ secṛtri v stet fr ol sīznz, wz hoplisli ǎt v hiz depʈ.

Hvr, Gov míst a tric. Ẃt h śd hv sd, bt az a sînd-up Brexitr obvịsli cd nt, wz ɖt ɖ onli “oṗtyṇti” arîzñ fṛm Brexit wz t conduct a sạntific xperimnt t demnstret ɖt ɖ hol îdīa wz a mstec. Morovr, it wz a confidnstric on ɖ Britiś public, ɖ mjoṛti v hūm nǎ riylîz ɖt ɖe hv bn hd.

Az biznis n inḍstri strugl wɖ ɖ consiqnsz v impozñ sañśnz on ǎr abiḷti t tred wɖ ǎr larjist marcit, n sitiznz – noun t icoṇmists az “cnsymrz” – strugl wɖ ɖ hayr importprîsz impozd bî ɖ dvalyeśn rzultñ fṛm Brexit, ɖ poulz r pṛnǎnsñ ppl’z vrdict on Brexit wɖ a vnjns.

A rīsnt YGuv poul tlz s ɖt 56% v ppl ʈnc w wr roñ t līv ɖ YY n onli 32% ɖt w wr rît. Īvn 19% v ɖoz hu ǒn p t hvñ votd līv nǎ ʈnc ɖe wr roñ. Ɖ onli ej grūp cntenñ a mjoṛti stl in fevr v Brexit z ɖ ovr-65z – I hv t se ɖe r nt amñ ɖ ovr-65z I mslf bump intu, bt ɖr it z. N 88% v ɖoz hu votd Lebr in 2019 ʈnc līv wz ɖ roñ dsiźn. (Cir Starmr n śadoćanslr Rećl Rīvz plīz not!)

It z obvịs ɖt ɖ mor intelijnt membrz v ɖ Sūnac/Hunt cabiṇt hv got ɖ mesij fṛm ɖ CBI n elsẃr ɖt w nīd, fr ɖ sec v ǎr icoṇmi n ɖ jenṛl welfér, t rījôn ɖ sngl marcit. Bt ɖs z ɖ luv ɖt der nt spīc its nem, īvn ɖo it apirz ɖt attydz twdz iṃgreśn – fri muvmnt! – hv ćenjd sins 2016, ẃn ɖ igrījs Boris Jonsn, himslf v Trciś ansstri, f’mntd anti-imigṛnt fīlñ wɖ nonsns abt an iminnt flud v Trciś imigṛnts.

Sūnac hz pict p ɖ mesij ɖt ɖ comḅneśn v Brexit n ɖ ceos in ɖ Cnsrṿtiv n Brexit parti hz léd foṛn obzrvrz t cnclud ɖt Britn z sncñ fast. Acordñ t ɖ Orġnîześn fr Ic̣nomic Cooṗreśn n Dveḷpmnt, v ɖ grūp v 20 līdñ icoṇmiz, onli Ruśa z pformñ wrs ɖn ɖ YC. Yes, w wr noun az ɖ “sic man v Yṛp” untl w jônd ɖ Yṛpiyn Yńn n – ges ẃt? – w hv left ɖ YY n hv rgend ɖt dybịs steṭs.

Membrśp v ɖ YY dd gret ʈñz fr ɖs cuntri. Bʈ Lebr n Cnsrṿtiv guvnmnts fòt ɖer cornr n, on ɖ hol, got ẃt ɖe wontd. Marġrit Ʈaćr n hr rît-hand ngośietr Lord Cǒfīld pleid a blîndr in ɖ setñ p v ɖ sngl marcit, n Jon Mejr aćivd wundrz at Maastricht wɖ ɖ YC’z opt-ǎt fṛm ɖ sngl cuṛnsi. Az fr rîtwñ cnsrnz abt “evr closr” yńn, ɖe wr dyli aswejd. In esns, ẃt ɖoz ol tù influenśl līvrz aćivd wz a hol̦i uņesṣri Brexit ɖt śot ɖ icoṇmi in ɖ ft.

Ɖ Ofis fr Bujit Rsponsbiḷti calklets ɖ kḿḷtiv damij v Brexit wl b inuf t noc 4% evri yir of ǎr ptnśl GDP. Az Mîcl Sōndrz, a formr membr v ɖ Banc v Ñgḷnd’z munitri-poḷsi cmiti, hz sd: “Ɖ nīd fr taxrîzz [n] spendñcuts wd’nt b ɖr f Brexit hd’nt rdyst ɖ icoṇmi’z ptnśl ǎtpt so mć.” N ɖ Fînanśl Tîmz rīsntli rportd ɖt mni v ɖ asetmanijrz hūm Sūnac n Hunt wr trayñ t paṣfî aftr ɖ Trus-Qarteñ fiasco wr cnsrnd abt ɖ denjrz v oṿdwñ osteṛti!

It wz a formr Treẓ́ri prṃnnt secṛtri, Lord Crowm, hu obzrvd t ɖ historịn Lord Heṇsi n m wns: “Ẃt matrz z nt baḷnsñ ɖ bujit bt baḷnsñ ɖ icoṇmi.” Yt, wɖ ɖ rīsnt bujit n ɖ ćanslr’z “śoc n horr” tōc, w sīm t b bac t ɖ ira v sedomuniṭrizm. W r srtnli a loñ we fṛm baḷnsñ ɖ icoṇmi.

Ɖ icoṇmist Jim Bōl yst t se h wz sspiśs v ɖ OBE – nt ɖ Ordr v ɖ Britiś Empîr, bt ɖ ppl hu gv y Wn Big Xpḷneśn.

Fr ɖs guvnmnt, ɖ WBX fr ǎr ic̣nomic trublz wz frst Covid, ɖen Ycren. I am nt seyñ Brexit z ɖ cōz v ol ǎr probḷmz bt – mî gdnis! – it hz magṇfaid ɖm. Wɖ dy rspct t ɖ meṃri v ɖ lêt Pṛf. Bōl, I śd lîc t noṃnet Brexit az ɖ Wn Big Xpḷneśn fr ẃ ɖs icoṇmi z fẹrñ so mć wrs ɖn ɖ rest v ɖ G20.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

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In Ñspel: The Guardian view on Brexit heresy in the government: reality begins to bite

‘Rishi Sunak was obliged to spend much of his visit to the CBI conference in Birmingham denying suggestions that the government was hoping to pivot to a closer Swiss-style relationship with the European Union.’ Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters
‘Riśi Sūnac wz oblîjd t spend mć v hiz vizit t ɖ CBI confṛns in Brmñm dnayñ sjsćnz ɖt ɖ guvnmnt wz hopñ t piṿt t a closr Swis-stîl rleśnśp wɖ ɖ Yṛpiyn Yńn.’ Foṭgraf: Fíl Nobl/Rôtrz
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Ɖ Gardịn vy on Brexit heṛsi in ɖ guvnmnt: riaḷti bginz t bît

(Transcription of a Guardian editorial of 21 Nov. 2022)

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Contṛvrśl brīfñz t ɖ pres bî sīńr guvnmntfigrz rflect a ćenj in ɖ zîtgîst

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Munde 21 Nvmbr 2022

Ɖ  śort, dzastṛs premịrśp v Liz Trus z bginñ t lc lîc ɖ endpônt v a p’liticl tṛjectri ɖt bgan wɖ ɖ Brexit reḟrendm in 2016. Ɖ spectaklr deṭneśn v Qāzi Qarteñ’z minībujit bî unimprest marcits wz ɖ momnt ẃn îdioḷji met riaḷti, n ɖ Cnsrṿtiv parti’z sovṛntist dluźnz wr fîṇli tstd t dstrux́n. In its afṭmaʈ, ɖ hî tîd v Brexit hz gn ǎt, n a slo vôij bac t ic̣nomic saṇti at last apirz t b undr we.

On Munde, Mz Trus’z s’xesr, Riśi Sūnac, wz oblîjd t spend mć v hiz vizit t ɖ CBI confṛns in Brmñm dnayñ sjsćnz ɖt ɖ guvnmnt wz hopñ t piṿt t a closr Swis-stîl rleśnśp wɖ ɖ Yṛpiyn Yńn. Switṣḷnd injôz sgnificnt n profitbl axes t ɖ sngl marcit, n ptiṣpets in YY rsrć n edyceśn programz, ẃl mcñ pemnts t ɖ YY n alînñ wɖ its lw. Acordñ t a Súnde Tîmz rport, guvnmntfigrz hv prîṿtli dscust ɖ posbiḷti v jst sć a rleśnśp fr Britn. “Let m b uniqivcl abt ɖs,” Mr Sūnac cǎntrd robustli. “Undr mî līdrśp, ɖ Ynîtd Cñdm wl nt psy eni rleśnśp wɖ Yṛp ɖt rlîz on alînmnt wɖ YY lwz … I votd fr Brexit. I b’liv in Brexit n I nǒ ɖt Brexit cn dlivr.”

Ɖr z no rīzn t dǎt ɖ prîm̦inistr’z wrd on ɖs. Olrdi vulnṛbl az h imbarcs on a program v taxrîzz, Mr Sūnac nz ɖt hardlîn Brexitrz in ɖ Tori parti (inʈyziasticli asistd bî ɖ Dêli Meil) wd atmt t brñ him dǎn rɖr ɖn cǎntinns sć a btreyl. Ẃn T’rīza Me flotd smʈñ similr t a Swis-stîl arenjmnt (ɖ dūmd Ćécrz dīl), it pruvd t b ɖ bginñ v ɖ end v hr premịrśp. Ɖ Yṛpiyn Rsrćgrūp muvd agnst hr n Boris Jonsn sizd hiz ćans.

Nr r ɖr grǎndz fr ʈncñ ɖt Bruslz wd ple bōl wɖ ẃt amǎnts t rīhītd cecizm. Az ɖ damij dn bî Brexit t ɖ Britiś icoṇmi plez itslf ǎt, ɖ YY hz no rīzn t rvizit its pziśn ɖt Britn canot injô ɖoz aspects v ɖ sngl marcit ẃć apil t it, ẃl rjctñ ɖoz ɖt d’nt – sć az ɖ fri muvmnt v ppl. Ɖr wl ɖus b no Swis-stîl acoṃdeśn wɖ ɖ YY undr ɖ preznt guvnmnt. Bt ɖ fact ɖt influenśl figrz in Mr Sūnac’s guvnmnt flt ebl t brīf sć heṛsiz t ɖ pres tlz s smʈñ importnt.

Acordñ t poulz, ɖ numbr v Brítnz hu b’liv it wz a mstec t līv ɖ YY nǎ standz at 56%, cmperd wɖ 32% hu stand bî ɖ dsiźn. Rlisñ its ic̣nomic fōrcast bfr last wīc’s ōtmstetmnt, aftr biyñ prīvịsli sîdlînd bî Mr Qarteñ, ɖ Ofis fr Bujit Rsponsbiḷti stetd bòldli ɖt Brexit hd dlivrd a “sgnificnt advrs impact” on tred. Ɖ public hz olso notist ɖt Britn z ɖ onli G7 cuntri stl t hv a smōlr icoṇmi cmperd wɖ bfr ɖ pandemic, n hz ɖ wrst groʈret. Ɖ flagśp post-Brexit treḑīl wɖ Ostreła wz “nt acć̣li a vri gd dīl”, acordñ t ɖ formr invîrnmntsecṛtri, Jorj Ysṭs.

Ɖ public’s tec on ɖz kḿḷtiv pìsz v bad nyz – dlivrd az ɖ cuntri priperz fr a record fōl in livñstanddz n a pṛloñd rseśn – z cọlesñ intu a ny comn-sns: ɖ hard Brexit ɖt Mr Jonsn orc̣stretd, n on ẃć Mz Trus atmtd t dubl dǎn, hz palṗbli feld. Fr Mr Sūnac, ɖ līdr v an unguvṇbl, dvîdd parti, it z – az h śrli nz – tù lêt t resk ɖ sićueśn. Bt fr Cir Starmr’z Lebr, ɖ Swis spekleśn z anɖr sîn ɖt an oṗtyṇti z oṗnñ p.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Economy in crisis, Tories in meltdown: how I have told the sad, strange story of Britain

Illustration by Matt Kenyon
Iḷstreśn bî Mát Céńn
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Icoṇmi in crîsis, Tōriz in mltdǎn: hǎ I hv tld ɖ sad, strenj stori v Britn

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 17 October 2022)

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Brexit, Jonsn, Trus’z U-trnz – I hv traid t xplen it ol t a YS ōdịns. I’v faund it hard t tec it ol in mslf

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Stryker McGuire

Strîcr MḠîr, Munde 17 Octobr 2022

Sins ɖ 1990z I’v bn intrpṛtñ ivnts in Britn fr an Americn ōdịns ʈru mî jrṇlizm. Smtmz it’s īzi: Lundn’z glorịs rnesns, Toni Bler’z rîz. Smtmz it’s les īzi: ɖ strenjnis v a “speśl rleśnśp” ẃr wn sîd cerz tù mć n ɖ uɖr tù litl, ɖ post-impirịl hañovr ɖt corsz ʈru Britiś lîf.

N smtmz it’s hard: ɖ puzl v Brexit, ɖ prisipiṭs dǎnfōl v ɖ Cnsrṿtiv parti. It hlps ɖt fr Americnz stl livñ ʈru ɖ Doṇld Trump sāga, nʈñ z ǎtsd ɖ relm v posbiḷti eni mor. It olso hlps ẃn I xplen t ɖm ɖt ɖoz tū lêtist ćaptrz v Britiś hisṭri r cnctd.

I tel ɖm ɖt fṛm ɖ 2016 reḟrendm onẉd, Brexit incrisñli gev ɖ Tōriz a foc̣s. Nvr mînd ɖt Brexit wz ɖ most dvîsiv ivnt in postwar Britn; ovr tîm, ɖ strugl t mc it hapn yṇfaid ɖ parti. Boris Jonsn’z “Gt Brexit Dn” 2019 ilex́ncampen s’mentd ɖ transfmeśn n, az far az Brexit wnt, sîḷnst Lebr.

Wɖn six wīcs, hvr, ɖ Tori tîd wd trn. Wns Britn forṃli left ɖ YY, ɖ Brexit-impozd diṣplin wɖn ɖ Cnsrṿtiv parti bgan t unravl. Admitidli, ɖ pandemic wd hv ʈroun eni guvnmnt of cors, bt Jonsn’z conduct in ofis dd’nt hlp ɖ Tori brand or parti yṇti. Swomt bî scandl, h wz ǎt. Entr Liz Trus.

Az ɖ YS n ɖ wrld lct on, Trus’z frst wīcs in ofis dd nt xacli rstor confidns in Dǎnñ Strīt. Sudnli, ɖ ny guvnmnt wz średñ ɖ Tōriz’ repyteśn fr fiscl prūdns n sǎnd ic̣nomic manijmnt. Frendz v mîn in ɖ Stets cd bérli b’liv ẃt ɖe wr witṇsñ. Īvn Americnz hu r îdịlojicli opozd t ɖ Cnsrṿtivz wr śoct t si ɖ parti v Ćrćl n Ʈaćr flayñ of ɖ relz.

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Liz Truss speaks after the sacking of Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor, 14 October 2022. Photograph: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images
Liz Trus spīcs aftr ɖ sacñ v Qāzi Qarteñ az ćanslr, 14 Octobr 2022. Foṭgraf: Dańl Leal/AFP/Geti Iṃjz
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Ɖ Trus-Qāzi Qarteñ “Groʈ Plan 2022” startd ǎt az a bujit at wor wɖ itslf, wɖ vast imrjnsi spendñ sitñ alñsd big unfundd taxcuts. It wz olso at wor wɖ Banc v Ñgḷnd munitri poḷsi. Ɖt wz bad inuf. Ɖen cem U-trnz, ɖ dfeṇstreśn v Qarteñ n ɖ nemñ v a ny ćanslr, Jeṛmi Hunt, hardli an îdịlojicl soulmêt v ɖ libterịn prîm̦inistr.

Ɖs stori z far fṛm ovr. Fṛm ɖ ǎtset, ɖ riax́n t ɖ ny guvnmnt’s “fiscl ivnt” abrōd wz ōfl. Formr YS Treẓ́risecṛtri Lari Sumrz sd ɖ wrld’z fifʈ-larjist icoṇmi wz “bhevñ a bit lîc an imrjñ marcit”. Prezidnt Bîdn himslf sd ɖt Trus’z orijinl plan wz a “mstec”. Ɖ Inṭnaśnl Munitrifund, ẃć yẓ́li rzrvz its srṃnîzñ fr dveḷpñ icoṇmiz, sd: “w d nt rec̣mnd larj n untarġtd fiscl pac̣jz at ɖs juñćr, az it z importnt ɖt fiscl poḷsi dz nt wrc at crosprṗsz t munitri poḷsi. Frɖrmr, ɖ nećr v ɖ YC meźrz wl lîcli incris iniqoḷti.”Stl, wɖ ol ɖ oprobrịm hīpt on Trus, it’s īzi t fget ɖt ɖ damij bgan loñ bfr ś got hold v Britn’z fînansz. Ẃt’s haṗnñ tde canot b seṗretd fṛm ẃt hapnd in ɖ last deced, līdñ p t Brexit. T xplen ɖoz dez t non-Brítnz, y hv t wêd intu ɖ wīdz v Britiś poḷtics. Ɖr, w cm upn Nîjl F’rāź, hu ɖo nvr ilectd t parḷmnt hd an xtrordnri inflụns on Wsminstr poḷtics. Hd it nt bn fr ɖ ʈret F’rāź n Ycip pozd t ɖ Cnsrṿtiv parti, Devid Camṛn me nvr hv dsîdd t cōl fr a reḟrendm. Bt, fetḟli, h dd.

Az a dyl YS-YC sitizn hu’z livd in Lundn sins 1996, ɖ closist I cd gt t unḍstandñ a raṣ́nal bhnd Brexit wz t si it in ɖ contxt v ẃt Bler wns cōld “post-empîr mleiz” – a veg f dīp-sītd yrnñ t rgen ɖ confidns n śurnis v îdntti ɖt, at līst in ɖ imaɉneśn, wnt hand in hand wɖ runñ an empîr. “Tec bac cntrol” wz śrli part v ɖt, fyld olso bî hîtnd ic̣nomic inṣkṛti in ɖ wec v ɖ 2007-08 fînanśl crîsis n a concmitnt unīz abt iṃgreśn.

Setñ ɖt lojic asd, I hv t se ɖt vrć̣li ol ɖ ic̣nomic arğmnts in fevr v Brexit lct spīśs at bst n sinicli mslidñ at wrst. In ɖt sns, Brexit z a cnd v orijinl sin ɖt sits at ɖ hart v tde’z YC icoṇmi. Ɖt śd hv bn evidnt in ɖ mirịd dîr ic̣nomic fōrcasts blîɖli dsmist az “rmonr” scermunġrñ in ɖ run-up t ɖ 2016 reḟrendm – fōrcasts ɖt trnd ǎt t b mostli akṛt. N it śd hv bn obvịs – az it wz t ɖ rest v ɖ wrld – in ɖ dǎnẉd tṛjectri v ɖ “Brexit pǎnd”, ẃć fél fṛm 1.50 t 1.33 t ɖ dolr oṿnît aftr ɖ 23 Jūn 2016 vot n ultiṃtli hit its lǒist-evr rcordd levl v 1.03 on 26 Sptmbr v ɖs yir.

Biyñ “liḅretd” fṛm ɖ YY wz nvr gwñ t liv p t ɖ cǎnṭfit proṃsz md bî ɖ Vot Līv campen bfr ɖ reḟrendm. Britn’z bordrz r no les pōṛs ɖn ɖe wr. Ɖ post-Brexit treḑīlz ɖ YC hz ngośietd r inṣgnificnt cmperd wɖ ɖ los v its larjist tredñpartnr. Ɖ juwl-in-ɖ-crǎn dīl wɖ ɖ YS z nt īvn on ɖ ajnda, az Trus admitd last munʈ.

Ɖ pandemic, huz arîvl cǒinsîdd wɖ Britn’z dparćr fṛm Yṛp, caṃflaźd mć v ɖ tol Brexit wz inflictñ on ɖ icoṇmi. Bt ɖ harm z riyl. A yir ago, ɖ Ofis fr Bujit Rsponsbiḷti wz esṭmetñ ɖt Brexit’s loñ-trm impact on ic̣nomic groʈ wd b mor ɖn twîs az daṃjñ az ɖt v Covid.

Ɖ ifct on tred hz bn devstetñ. Moḍlñ bî ɖ Sntr fr Yṛpiyn Rform faund ɖt sol̦i bcz v Brexit, Britiś tred in gdz wz dǎn jrñ ɖ frst haf v last yir, renjñ btwn 11 n 16% munʈ t munʈ. “Ɖr z evidns ɖt bizṇsz fes ny n sgnificnt riyl-wrld ćaḷnjz in tredñ wɖ ɖ YY ɖt canot b atribytd t ɖ pandemic,” ɖ Hǎs v Lordz Yṛpiyn-aferz cmiti rportd in Dsmbr.

Endñ ɖ fri muvmnt v lebr btwn Britn n ɖ continnt – a Brexit cornrston – z holowñ ǎt ɖ wrcfors. Acordñ t ɖ Ofis fr Naśnl Sttistics, ɖ numbr v job vec̣nsiz std at 1,246,000 in ɖ ʈrd qortr v ɖs yir, p fṛm abt 823,000 bfr Brexit n Covid-19 set in. Ɖz śorṭjz aflict bizṇsz larj n smōl, fṛm cafez n pubz t farmz n mańfacćrñplants.

Mnẃl, ɖ OBR anaḷsis fṛm Me śoz a numbr v ic̣nomic indcetrz ol gwñ in ɖ roñ d’rex́n: az a rzult v līvñ ɖ YY, loñ-trm prodctivti wl slump bî 4%, bʈ xports n imports wl b arnd 15% lowr in ɖ loñ run, nyli sînd treḑīlz wɖ non-YY cuntriz “wl nt hv a mtirịl impact”, n ɖ guvnmnt’s ny post-Brexit mîgreśn reźīm wl rdys net inwd mîgreśn at a tîm v criticl lebrśorṭjz. It hz bn sm stori t tel.

Ɖr’z a sīn in ɖ Hǎs v Comnz ɖt cīps pleyñ in mî hed. It’s 2019 n Jecb Rīs-Mog, nǎ Trus’z biznișecṛtri, z spīcñ v ɖ “brōd, súnlit upḷndz ɖt awêt s” ʈancs t Brexit. Ɖen I contmplet ẃr Britn z tde: hedñ intu a pṛtractd rseśn undr an infībld prîm̦inistr līdñ a wūndd, frax́s parti. I hop I’m pruvd roñ, n ɖoz súnlit upḷndz r ǎt ɖr ovr ɖ hrîzn. No sîn az yt. Bt I’d b plizd t cm bac n tel evrwn hu hz lisnd so far ɖt I wz mstecn.

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: The markets have taken back control: so much for Truss’s Brexit delusion of sovereignty

‘Liz Truss is finished, a hollow husk of a prime minister.’ Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian
‘Liz Trus z finiśt, a holo husc v a prîm̦inistr.’ Foṭgraf: Śōn Smiʈ/Ɖ Gardịn
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Ɖ marcits hv tecn bac cntrol: so mć fr Trus’z Brexit dluźn v sovṛnti

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 14 October 2022)

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Ɖs z ɖ bigist hymilieśn v Britn sins Suiz, a rmîndr ɖt no guvnmnt cn ignor riaḷti

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Jonathan Freedland

Joṇʈn Frīdḷnd, Frîde 14 Octobr 2022

Hard t b’liv nǎ, ẃn w’r in ɖ midl v ɖ melstrom, bt wn de ɖs tù wl b ɖ past. N ẃn it z, ẃn w’r ǎt v ɖ aurli sîcodrāma – no longr stẹrñ at ɖ scrīn, woćñ Qāzi Qarteñ’z plein d an acćl U-trn in ɖ scî en route t hiz biyñ fîrd on tućdǎn, fr ɖ crîm v dwñ ẃt hiz bos wontd him t d – it me nt lc ol ɖt compḷcetd.

Historịnz wl lc bac n si a pônt v oṛjin t ɖ cuṛnt madnis, wn ɖt xplenz hǎ a ny prîm̦inistr cd si hr admiṇstreśn fōl apart in a matr v wīcs, īvn f w strugl t nem ɖt cōz ǎt lǎd rît nǎ. Ẃn ɖ txtbcs v ɖ fyćr cm t ɖ ćaptr w r livñ ʈru, in ɖ ōtm v 2022, ɖe wl start wɖ ɖ sumr v 2016: Brexit n ɖ sṗsific dluźn ɖt drouv it.

Ɖe wl pônt t ɖ obvịs impact v Britn’z dsiźn t līv ɖ Yṛpiyn Yńn, n ɖ rǒl ɖt pleid in upending a cuntri wns rnǎnd fr its stbiḷti. Ɖe mt bgin wɖ ɖ besics. Xit, ɖe wl rait, śranc ɖ YC icoṇmi ʈancs t a 5.2% fōl in GDP, a 13.7% fōl in invstmnt n a similr drop in ɖ tred in gdz. Ɖt slf-inflictd cntrax́n hlps xplen ẃ Britn flt inṭnaśnl śocs – srjñ infleśn, fr xampl – hardr ɖn most. F yr icoṇmi z smōlr, y îɖr hv t tax ppl mor t pe fr ɖ srṿsz ɖe xpct, or y cut ɖoz srṿsz, or y boro. Ɖr r no uɖr wez ǎt.

Unls y rzort t majicl ʈncñ. Ẃć brñz s t ɖ secnd cōzl cnx́n btwn ɖ crezinis v nǎ n ɖ trnñpônt v 2016. Brexit brouc ɖ linc btwn guvnns n rīzn, btwn poḷsi n evidns. Untl Brexit, poḷtiśnz onli rerli got awe wɖ dfayñ ɖ impiricl facts or eḷmntri lojic. Bt in 2016 ɖe pritndd ɖt a cuntri cd wìcn its tredñtîz t its nirist nebrz n gt rićr, ẃć z lîc seyñ y cn step in a baʈ v îs n gt wormr. Wns ɖ tbu on majicl ʈncñ wz brocn, wns fanṭsi bcem a Cnsrṿtiv habit, Trusonomics bcem inevitbl – smîlñli insistñ ɖt y cd cut taxz fr ɖ rićist, mc “abṣlutli” no cuts t public srṿsz n cntrol borowñ, ol at ɖ sem tîm.

Bt ɖr z a les obvịs we in ẃć Brexit md ɖ cuṛnt gret unraṿlñ a p’liticl deʈ fōrtold. It trnz on ɖ îdīa ɖt pǎrd ɖ rj t līv ɖ YY mor ɖn eni uɖr: cōl it ɖ sovṛnti dluźn.

Ɖ līvrz’ slogn, “Tec bac cntrol”, rjd Brítnz t śec of ɖ cnstrents v Bruslz n bcm a prǎd, soṿrin neśn wns mor – a neśn ɖt, alon, wd dsîd its fet. Aftr Brexit, ɖe promist, Britn wd b ɖ sol mastr v its desṭni, unbrdnd bî ɖ nīd t cnsult or īvn acoṃdet enwn els.

Ɖ ʈri wīcs sins Qarteñ dlivrd hiz mini-bujit hv sìn ɖ śaṭrñ v ɖt dluźn. Fr Trus n hr nǎ xćanslr wr gvn ɖ rūdist v rmîndrz ɖt in ǎr inṭdipndnt wrld ɖr z no sć ʈñ az pyr, untramld sovṛnti. No guvnmnt cn d ẃt ɖ hel it lîcs, hīdlis v uɖrz. In ɖs ces, ɖ rstrent on sovṛnti wz nt ɖ YY: it wz ɖ munimarcits. Bt ɖer vrdict wz az bîndñ az eni Bruslz īdict; in fact it wz mor so. Ɖe ordrd ɖ rmuvl v a ćanslr aftr jst 38 dez in ofis n ɖ canṣleśn v ɖ guvnmnt’s ic̣nomic straṭji. It z ɖ fînanśl marcits ɖt hv tecn bac cntrol.

Nn v ɖz ivnts śd b a s’prîz. Ɖr wr plenti hu wornd ɖs wd hapn, nt līst Trus’z sumr’ponnt, Riśi Sŭnac. Bt Trus n Qarteñ wnt ahd enwe, iśuwñ ɖer procḷmeśnz az f ɖe wr ɖ sol actrz on ɖ stej, oblivịs t ɖ fact ɖt y c’nt jst anǎns £43bn v unfundd taxcuts wɖt ɖoz hūm y xpct t lend y ɖ muni xpresñ a vy – in ɖs ces bî triġrñ an instnt spîc in ɖ cost v borowñ. Y canot simpli bîpas ɖ ofiśl spendñscrūṭnir, ɖ Ofis fr Bujit Rsponsbiḷti, wɖt ɖ marcits cncludñ ɖt y’v bcm unpridictbl n, ɖrfr, unrilaybl, a bad risc.

Az rmenrz wr moct fr pôntñ ǎt six loñ yirz ago, ɖr z no sć ʈñ az unfetrd sovṛnti in ɖ 21st snć̣ri: evri cuntri hz t acoṃdet its nebrz, ɖ globl icoṇmi, riaḷti. Bt ɖ līvrz, n ɖer zeḷs cnvrt Trus, rfyzd t hír it. Ẃn Sŭnac traid t spel ǎt ɖz rūḍmntri facts, Cnsrṿtiv parti membrz ʈt h wz biyñ a spôlsport. Ɖ Treẓ́ri prṃnnt secṛtri, Tom Scolr, wz sìn az ɖ imbodimnt v sć borñ, riaḷti-best ʈncñ, n so Trus fîrd him.

Ɖs wīc Sanje Rāja, ćīf YC icoṇmist v Deutsche Bank, tld a Comnz cmiti ɖt Britn wz fesñ a ynīc form v tredśoc: “W hv’nt sìn ɖs cnd v treddeḟsit sins 1955, sins naśnl acǎntrecordz bgan.” It wz od, bcz I tù hd bn ʈncñ abt ɖ mid-1950z, sṗsificli ɖ Suiz crîsis v 1956. Ɖ fełr v ɖt militri advnćr z nǎ sìn az ɖ momnt ẃn a bucit v cold riaḷti wz ʈroun intu Britn’z fes, a hymilieśn ɖt stript ɖ cuntri v its impirịl dluźnz, forsñ it t axpt ɖt it wz no longr a globl sūṗpǎr ɖt cd act alon. Fr a ẃl, Britn lrnt ɖt lésn: jst fîv yirz aftr Suiz, ɖ cuntri wz nocñ on Yṛp’s dor, ascñ t jôn ɖ club.

Bt sm, ispeṣ́li in ɖ Cnsrṿtiv parti, nvr śc of ɖ old dluźn. Bî 2016, it wz bac, ɖ Tōriz hî on Brexit tōc v a globl Britn wns agn sêlñ ɖ wrld’z ośnz, fri v ɖ cnstrenñ hand v ɖ YY, redi t rtrn t its rîtfl granjr. Ɖ Tōriz hv bn briɖñ ɖoz fymz fr six yirz, n ɖ Trus-Qarteñ mini-bujit wz ɖ rzult: ɖ Suiz v ic̣nomic poḷsi, a dzastṛs act v imajind impirịl sovṛnti.

Az sevṛl icoṇmists hv notd, Trus wz actñ az f Britn wr ɖ YS, iśụr v ɖ wrld’z rzrvcuṛnsi, wɖ marcits fōlñ ovr ɖmslvz t lend it muni. Lîc Ánṭni Īdn bfr hr, ś cd nt axpt ɖt Britn’z ples z nt ẃt it wz: it cn nvr b soṿrin lîc a cñ in a fẹritêl, ebl t bnd ɖ wrld t hiz wl. Ɖt cnd v sovṛnti wz olwz a fanṭsi, wn ɖt bʈ féd Brexit n wz féd bî it.

Nǎ ś hz hd t mc a cnseśn t riaḷti, leyñ dǎn ɖ p’liticl lîf v hr frend n abandnñ ẃt hd bn a sigṇćrpoḷsi. Ś z nt in ćarj v ivnts; ś z nt īvn in ćarj v hr ǒn guvnmnt. Jeṛmi Hunt wz an apôntmnt forst on hr. Hr dmīnr in hr afṭnunpresconfṛns on Frîde – śel-śoct, britl – sjstd ś hz nt abzorbd ɖ fl mīnñ v ẃt hz jst hapnd.

Ś z finiśt, a holo husc v a prîm̦inistr. Bt ɖs z bigr ɖn ɖt. Ɖ Brexit bubl hz brst. Ɖ cuntri hz sìn ɖt ɖ Tori hlūṣneśn v an îḷnd ebl t cmand ɖ tîdz wz no mor ɖn a fīvrdrīm, n a denjṛs wn at ɖt. W cn pṛnǎns Trusonomics ded. Brñ on ɖ de w cn se ɖ sem v ɖ dluźn ɖt spōnd it.

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Fṛm ɖ Gardịn: Labour must be bold and strike the killer blow – or the Tories will rise again

‘There needs to be an offering not just for those sick of the Tories.’ L to R, Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner during prime minister’s questions. Photograph: Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament/AFP/Getty Images
‘Ɖr nīdz t b an oḟrñ nt jst fr ɖoz sic v ɖ Tōriz.’ L t R, Rećl Rīvz, Cir Starmr n Anɉla Rênr jrñ prîm̦inistr’z qsćnz. Foṭgraf: Jesica Teilr/YC Parḷmnt/AFP/Geti Iṃjz
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Lebr mst b bold n strîc ɖ cilrblo – or ɖ Tōriz wl rîz agn

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 9 October 2022)

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A rer oṗtyṇti hz imrjd t pin ǎr mni crîsīz nt jst on ɖ Cnsrṿtiv parti, bt ɖ intîr cnsrṿtiv îdioḷji

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Nesrine Malik

Nesrīn Malic, Súnde 9 Octobr 2022

Fîṇli, an ax́n-páct episod v Britiś poḷtics hz drwn t a cloz. It startd rufli at ɖ tîm v Riśi Sŭnac n Sajid Javid’z reẓgneśnz in rli Jlî, foloud bî Boris Jonsn’z reẓgneśn, a Tori līdrśp rês, a ny prîm̦inistr, a sêizmic minibujit, strlñ tancñ, a confidnt pformns bî ɖ Lebr parti n inevitbli a guvnmnt U-trn. Ɖ ǎtcm hz bn a dṛmatic śift in ɖ poulz twd Lebr. It wl b tū yirz bfr Brítnz cn xpres ɖer vyz in a jenṛl ilex́n, so a qsćn hañz in ɖ er – ẃt nǎ?

In ɖ îz v pṛgresivz ɖ ansr z clir: Lebr winz, v cors, n ɖ Tōriz hed intu cold xîl. Xpcteśn hz morft intu fact n nǎ okpîz ɖ spes btwn ɖ preznt n fyćr. Bt f a wīc z a loñ tîm in poḷtics, ɖen tū yirz z sevṛl lîftîmz. Ɖr z a risc ɖt, in ɖs momnt v oṗtyṇti, Lebr misz ǎt on mcñ ɖ sort v sstemic ćalinj ɖt cd, ɖt śd, snd ɖs c’lamiṭs Tori parti intu oblivịn, n nt mirli intu a cornr t rīgrūp.

Ɖr r hints ɖt ɖ Lebr parti z bginñ t riylîz ɖt it cn no longr cǎnt intîrli on biyñ popylr bî dfōlt. Ɖt ɖr nīdz t b an oḟrñ nt jst fr ɖoz sic v ɖ Tōriz bt olso ɖoz trnd of bî ɖ lac v śarp, mīnñfl contrast btwn ɖ tū. Īvn sm v ɖ most dis’fctd n ełnetd membrz fṛm ɖ left v ɖ parti I spouc t aftr ɖ Lebr confṛns sīmd xîtd n hartnd bî ɖ ny poḷsiz pṛpozd, ptiklrli ɖt v a Gret Britiś Eṇji cumṗni ǒnd bî ɖ public. Bt ɖs z stl nt inuf v a ny viźn t capćr ɖ neśn’z c’lectiv imaɉneśn. N ɖt z bcz ɖr hz nt bn inuf v a rec̣nñ wɖ ɖ oṛjin v ɖ dzastrz ɖt hv bfōḷn ɖ cuntri ovr ɖ past ʈri decedz – v ẃć Brexit n ɖ cuntri’z unpriperidnis fr Covid r nt eṗsodz, bt simtmz.

Ɖ parti’z straṭji z t fix ẃt ɖ Tōriz hv run dǎn, bt axpt ɖ arenjmnts n prizrv ɖ infṛstrucćr in ẃć ɖt dclîn hz ocŕd. It z a badli tîmd tmidti; in riaḷti, ẃt z nīdd z ɖ ijx́n v ɖ prîṿt sectr intîrli fṛm eni relm ɖt pṛvîdz besic nīdz sć az śltr, cer fr oldr ppl, ɖ eṇji w nīd t cīp worm n cc ǎr fūd. Nt, az Lebr’z depyti līdr, Anɉla Rênr, pṛpozd, mirli mcñ śr ɖt public contracts r wel x’ktd, az f ɖ Lebr parti wr pićñ itslf az a betr srvispṛvîdr t a Britiś sitizn hu z abv ol els a custmr.

Ɖ parti foc̣sz, telñli, on xpandñ hom ǒnrśp rɖr ɖn sośl hǎzñ. Ɖ neśn z a marcitples, wn ɖt Lebr wl fines t betr srv its claynt, ɖ dzrvñ “wrcñ ppl” – a caṭgri ɖt z xcluźnri at bst, n sinistr at wrst: pśñ ǎt ɖoz hu wrc unpeid or r unebl t wrc dy t sicnis, cẹrñ or ej. Lebr’z targit z a clas ɖt z wɖn snifñdistns v a morgij, wɖ a reğlr incm, rɖr ɖn ɖoz in gig implômnt, or lîfloñ prîṿt n sośl hǎzñ rentrz. A d’rect lîn lincs ɖs priceriat t Starmr’z strongist rīsnt ʈīm – ɖt v a rić huz wlʈ ɖ Tōriz r akzd v pṛtctñ. Agn, Lebr hz míst a tric; ɖ qsćn òt nt t b hǎ t tax ɖm aproprịtli, bt ẃ ɖe wr ebl t akḿlet so mć wlʈ.

On iṃgreśn n culćr, ɖ parti’z top lînz n poḷsi lc nt onli lîc bad poḷtics, bt olso pur straṭji. F yr criṭsizm v Tori iṃgreśnpoḷsi z ɖt it z nt dportñ ppl ifiśntli inuf, az ɖ śadoćanslr, Rećl Rīvz, argyd last wīc, ɖen ɖ rît wl ʈanc y fr prîmñ votrz fr ɖer evr-mor pôzṇs n pyṇtiv poḷsiz. F yr petrịtizm z gwñ t b xclūsiv n yoct t Britn’z insttyśnz v oʈoṛti n lw n ordr – ɖ armd forsz, ɖ p’līs, ɖ royl faṃli – ɖ picćr v ɖt cuntri z olwz gwñ t b pentd mor vividli bî ɖ rît.

Cnvnśnl sntrgrǎnd wizdm z ɖt mcñ tù mni îdịlojicl muvz wl scer votrz huz unḍstandñ v poḷsi z mīdietd mnli ʈru a rîtwñ pres. Betr t brñ ɖm alñ jntli n ɖen tec of ɖ masc ẃn in pǎr. Yt wer ɖ masc fr loñ inuf n it īts intu ɖ fes.

Ɖ ǎtcm z a parti cnstrictd in ɖ oltrṇtivz it cn pṛvîd. Ɖ riyl risc z felñ t imbarc on an ic̣nomic n culćṛl rīśepñ v ɖ cuntri ẃn ɖ grǎnd z frtîl. Ɖ steṭs qo, az dfndd bî ɖoz wɖ a vstd inṭrest in it, z simpli nt wrcñ. Ɖ YC nīdz t b gîdd awe nt jst fṛm ɖ rît, bt fṛm its unḍraitrz; fṛm ɖ s’preṃsi v capitl n ɖ s’preṃsi v ɖ netiv, ɖrfr enśurñ ɖt ɖ Cnsrṿtivz r no longr ɖ parti ɖt bst rflects ɖ cuntri. Ɖt involvz an antagnizm wɖ ɖ Siti, ɖ pres n, yes, wɖ parts v ɖ ilectṛt.

Ɖ denjr z nt in dwñ tù mć, bt dwñ tù litl. T yz a frêz ɖt ɖ ny parti v fiscl rsponsbiḷti śd aprīśiet, ɖ Lebr parti z līvñ muni on ɖ tebl. Ɖ sort v spnteńs grasrūts orġnîzñ w hv sìn arnd ɖ cost v livñ, Covid n refyjī crîsīz śoz a neśn ɖt ǎtṗformz its p’liticl ǎtcumz.

Ɖr z a votrcọliśn ɖt cn b crietd, nt mirli totd p fṛm swñvotrz n ɖ rtrn v ɖ “red wōl”, bt v a dispṛt numbr v grūps n ejz arnd nośnz v soḷdaṛti n incluźn. Ɖs cọliśn wd mc p a mjoṛti, az larj n az galṿnîzd az ɖoz hu votd fr Brexit popylizm. “Ɖ prinsipl probḷm wɖ ɖ nośn v ilectbiḷti”, ɖ formr Gardịn coḷmnist Gari Yúñ wns obzrvd, z ɖt it “sjsts ɖ we ppl si ɖ wrld at eni gvn momnt canot b ćenjd ʈru arğmnt n actvizm n instd irects bordrz fr ẃt z pmisbl dscuśn.”

Az loñ az w ste wɖn ɖoz bordrz, darcnis lrcs, no matr ɖ poulz. I c’nt hlp bt ʈnc v ɖ film Fōḷn, in ẃć a fōḷn enjl pzesz ɖ bodiz v hymnz, muvñ ʈru ɖm t rīc haṿc on Rʈ. Confidnt in ɖ pǎr v its imortaḷti, ɖ spirit tōnts hymnz trayñ t vanqiś it bî sññ ɖ cōṛs t an Irma Toṃs soñ: “Tîm z on mî sîd, yes it z.” Ɖ forsz v ɖ Tori rît cn rzîd in ɖ bodi v Lebr, cn īvn drw eṇji fṛm it, unls ɖe r rjctd intîrli. Untl ɖen, tîm z on ɖer sîd, yes it z.

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn │ Brexit is the monster under the bed Liz Truss is desperately trying to ignore

ÑSPEL, FROM THE GUARDIAN, ,
‘Liz Truss claims that backing the wrong horse in the Brexit referendum taught her to discard orthodox economic thinking.’ Photograph: John Sibley/Reuters
‘Liz Trus clemz ɖt bacñ ɖ roñ hors in ɖ Brexit reḟrendm tòt hr t dscard orʈ̇dox ic̣nomic ʈncñ.’ Foṭgraf: Jon Sibli/Rôtrz

Brexit z ɖ monstr undr ɖ bed Liz Trus z despṛtli trayñ t ignor

(Transcription of an interview published in the Guardian on Wednesday 31 August 2022)

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Ɖ lîcli winr v ɖ līdrśp contest insists Brexit wz ɖ rît paʈ t tec wɖ ɖ viymns v a zeḷs cnvrt

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Rafael Behr

Rafel Bẹr, Wnzde, 31 Ōġst 2022

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Ɖr z a bc ɖt fōrsw wɖ prisiźn ɖs sumr’z Cnsrṿtiv līdrśp contest, olɖo it wz frst publiśt in 1980. It z a ʈin volym abt dnayl n neglijns, mcñ its pônt wɖ fy wrdz n culrfl iḷstreśnz. It z cōld Nt nǎ, Brṇd bî Devid MCi.

Ɖ titylr hiro z a bô hu trîz t alrt hiz peṛnts t ɖ prezns v a ćîld-ītñ monstr in ɖ gardn. Ɖe r bizi wɖ uɖr ʈñz. “Nt nǎ, Brṇd,” sz ɖ faɖr, strîcñ hiz ǒn hand wɖ a hamr. “Nt nǎ, Brṇd,” sz ɖ muɖr, wōṭrñ a plant.

Ɖ monstr īts ɖ bô.

Ɖ nxt rezidnt v 10 Dǎnñ Strīt wl fînd ɖ gardn crōlñ wɖ monstṛs ic̣nomic n p’liticl meṇsz. A cōṛs v Brṇdz z rezñ ɖ alarm. Icoṇmists, MPz, formr Tori ministrz, ćaṛtiz, tredyńnz, bizṇsz, locl caunslz – ol cn hír ruṣlñ in ɖ bśz ẃr a bīstli crîsis lrcs, redi t savij ɖ ny prîm̦inistr.

Enwn hu pez an eṇjibil n dz a wīcli śop cn fīl ɖ clwz v a bujitsqīz clozñ arnd ɖ neśn’z windpîp. Ɖr’z an ogr in ɖ hlʈsrvis. “Nt nǎ, Brṇd,” sz Riśi Sŭnac. Ɖr’z a fīnd in ɖ fînanśl ǎtlŭc. “Nt nǎ, Brṇd,” sz Liz Trus. Ɖr r devlz in yr poḷsidītelz. “Nt nǎ, Brṇd!”

Ɖen ɖr z ɖt uɖr monstr, ɖ wn ɖt hz bcm sć a fixćr in ɖ gardn ɖt īvn ɖ opziśn sīmz nt t notis it eni mor. Cn w tōc abt Brexit? Nt nǎ, Brṇd!

Britn’z slf-xcluźn fṛm conṭnntl marcits z nt ɖ bigist cōz v preznt ic̣nomic pen bt it wl b hard t imajin reṃdiz in ɖ absns v eni raṣ́nl ōdit v ɖt dsiźn or eni riixaṃneśn v ɖ îdịlojicl fixeśnz ɖt pṛvoct it. Bt fr Brexit b’livrz, it z olwz tù sn n tù lêt t pas jujmnt.

Tù sn, bcz ɖ beṇfits v frīdm lî unclemd undr ɖ pîr v “rtend” YY reğleśnz ɖt bʈ Trus n Sŭnac promis t insiṇret. N tù lêt, bcz Brexit z ɖ setld wil v ɖ ppl n eni hint v a dǎnsîd z sdiśn.

Ɖ Tori parti recgnîzz onli tū poṣbl pziśnz on Britn’z rleśnśp wɖ ɖ YY – hrǒic insistns on frɖr sevṛns n cawdli plotñ t rījôn. Lebr, unwilñ t adopt ɖ formr stans n afreid v biyñ cast in ɖ latr wn, sz nʈñ mīnñfl on ɖ subjict.

Mnẃl, ɖ irex́n v pôntlis custmzbarịrz btwn Britn n its nirist marcits hz obstructd tred, impozd costs on biznis, snarld p s’plîćenz n stǒct infleśn. Ɖ end v fri muvmnt hz cōzd lebrśorṭjz fr fūd pṛdysrz, cerhomz n a gaṃt v srṿsz in btwn.

Fri-tred dīlz wɖ non-Yṛpiyn stets ɖt wr mnt t compnset fr ɖ los v conṭnntl custm hv hd negliɉbl impact. (Most r copi-n-pest jobz fṛm arenjmnts Britn hd az a YY membr.)

Strlñ hz dprīśietd, bt wɖt ɖ compnsetñ būst t xportcmpettivnis ɖt mt b xpctd fṛm a cuṛnsi dvalyeśn. Biznis invstmnt hz bn flat sins ɖ reḟrendm, in larj part bcz ɖ p’liticl clîṃt hz bn so unpridictbl. Ɖt voḷtiḷti – tū jenṛl ilex́nz n ʈri ćenjz v prîm̦inistr in six yirz – z a fuñśn v ɖ strugl t trn an îdiyl Brexit, nrćrd in ɖ p’rocịl Yrosceptic imaɉneśn, intu a riaḷti-best Brexit involvñ uɖr cuntriz n riyl ppl’z jobz.

It c’nt b dn. Opińnpoulz sjst a mjoṛti v votrz ʈnc ɖ hol ʈñ wz a mstec. Liz Trus, ɖ lîcli winr v ɖ līdrśp contest, insists uɖ̇wz wɖ ɖ viymns v a zeḷs cnvrt.

Trus wz a rmenr in 2016 bcz ś wz an ac̣lît v Jorj Ozbōrn. Ɖ ɖen ćanslr cnvinst hiz dsîpl ɖt Britn wd nt b fūliś inuf t jeṭsn YY membrśp. Ɖ campen wd b fòt on ɖ icoṇmi n ɖ smart ʈñ fr an ambiśs yuñ ministr t d wz bac ɖ winñ sîd. Ś promtli dd jst ɖt wns ɖ rzults wr in.

Trus nǎ clemz ɖt bacñ ɖ roñ hors in ɖ reḟrendm tòt hr t dscard orʈ̇dox ic̣nomic ʈncñ. Ɖt crietd a mntl vecnsi, ẃć ś fild wɖ hardlîn Brexit dogmaz. Bî 2019, ś wz argywñ in prîṿt ɖt Britn cd sefli wōc awe fṛm ɖ YY wɖt a comprihnsiv dīl. Bruslz, ś sd, wd imīɉtli b caud intu “sîd dīlz” t miṭget eni poṣbl harm, ɖ ʈret v ẃć wz, in eni ces, vastli xaɉretd bî lili-livrd rmonrz.

Hvñ lrnt t dspîz rsivd Treẓ́ri wizdm, Trus hz grajuetd on t scorn fr dploṃsi az tṛdiśṇli practist at ɖ Foṛn Ofis. Rports v hr incǎntrz wɖ oṿsìz cǎnṭparts sjst ś stumblz at ɖ sutl bǎnḍri btwn d’rect n brusc; candid n cras.

Ɖt tndnsi wz on dsple at ɖ hustñz ivnt last wīc, ẃr Trus wz asct ẃɖr ɖ Frenć prezidnt, Emmanuel Macron, z frend or fo. “Ɖ jri’z ǎt,” ś sd. It wz mnt in a misćiṿs spirit, wɖ an î onli fr ɖ Tori acṭvists in ɖ rūm. Foṛn secṛtriz n woṇbi prîm̦inistrz yst t avôd imḅsiḷtiz v ɖt cnd bfr Boris Jonsn cntaṃnetd bʈ oḟsz wɖ hiz mrōdñ insūsịns. N īvn h dz’nt heẓtet t cōl Frans an alî.

Tōriz nǎ spīc incrisñli fondli v ɖ ǎtgwñ prîm̦inistr, nt bcz ɖe rmembr him az a scild līdr, bt bcz hiz ynīc scil z mezṃrîzñ ɖm intu fgetñ ẃt gd guvnmnt z mnt t lc lîc. Trus dz’nt hv ɖt majic tuć. Ɖ Brexit-būstr wond sits ōcẉdli in hr hand.

Cnsrṿtiv redinis t indulj Jonsn z no meźr v hiz repyteśn in ɖ cuntri, bt ɖ līdrśp contest z nt a naśnl ilex́n. Fr at līst wn mor wīc, Britiś poḷtics z cntend in ɖt sìld ćembr ẃr ɖr z a Boris leġsi t seḷbret, ẃr ɖ s’lūśn t poṿti z corpṛt taxcuts, ẃr ɖ s’lūśn t evrʈñ z taxcuts, ẃr taxcuts hv no impact on public-srvis bujits, ẃr lîf ǎtsd ɖ YY z ol upsîd n cn onli gt betr.

Bt ɖr’z a monstr in ɖ gardn.

MCi’z stori dz’nt end ẃn Brṇd z ītn. In a briłnt twist, ɖ monstr ɖen entrz ɖ hǎs n muvz intu ɖ bô’z rūm, brecñ hiz tôz n ītñ hiz dinr. Stl ɖ peṛnts d’nt notis. “Bt I’m a monstr,” ɖ monstr z fîṇli muvd t inform ɖm. “Nt nǎ, Brṇd,” ɖe se.

Ɖs z ɖ nxt ćaptr fr Britn. Ɖ monstr z hir, anǎnsñ itslf wɖ rorz n snarlz. Ɖ crîsis z upn s, dmandñ ceṗbl, sirịs guvnmnt. Ẃn wl ɖt crî b hŕd? Nt nǎ, Britn. Nt nǎ.

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In Ñspel │ The Observer view on the cost of living crisis

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Wages in Britain have been mostly stagnant since the financial crisis and productivity sits 15% below the United States, Germany and France. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer
Wejz in Britn hv bn mostli stagnnt sins ɖ fînanśl crîsis n prodctivti sits 15% b’lo ɖ Ynîtd Stets, Jrṃni n Frans. Foṭgraf: Gari Caltn/Ɖ Obzrvr

Ɖ Obzrvr vy on ɖ cost v livñ crîsis

(Transcription of an editorial published in the Observer on 1 May 2022)

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Cabiṇtministrz’ glib śortcuts r dîr rspons t ic̣nomic crîsis

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Súnde, 1 Me 2022

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Livñstanddz r set t fōl at ɖer fastist ret sins recordz bgan in ɖ mid-1950z. Last munʈ, ɖ Ofis fr Bujit Rsponsbiḷti pridictd ɖt riyl hǎshold incmz wl fōl bî 2.2% ɖs yir, az eṇji n fūdprîsz incris bt wejz fel t cīp pes wɖ rîzñ bilz.

Ɖ impact wl nt b flt īqli. Fr sm, it wl bérli rejistr. Fr uɖr faṃliz, it wl mīn dificlt dsiźnz abt ẃt t cut bac on. Fr uɖrz stl, it wl b pṛfǎnd, strećñ pricerịs bujits in ẃć ɖr z olrdi no giv, forsñ imposbl ćôsz btwn isnślz sć az ptñ fūd on ɖ tebl n cīpñ ɖ hītñ on, n śarṗnñ ɖ fir v ɖ unixpctd ǎtle ɖt cn trigr a détspîṛl fṛm ẃć ɖr z no iscep. Wn esṭmet sjsts lowr-incm hǎsholdz wl fes a drop in incm v £1,300 ɖs yir.

Last wīc, ɖ lêtist ʈncñ fṛm ministrz on hǎ t adres ɖs crîsis in livñstanddz tricld intu ɖ hedlînz aftr a cabiṇt “brenstormñ” mītñ. Grant Śaps, ɖ trnsportministr, pṛpozd muvñ car MOTz fṛm wns a yir t wns evri 24 munʈs, sevñ a wn-car hǎshold a pōltri £23 a yir, at ɖ risc v jeṗdîzñ rodsefti. Ɖ edyceśnsecṛtri, Nadhim Zahawi, sjstd incrisñ ɖ maximm numbr v ćildṛn an rli-yirz wrcr cn b rsponsbl fr in ordr t moḍstli rdys ɖ cost v ćîldcer. Uɖrz arnd ɖ tebl rportidli sjstd yṇlatṛli scrapñ tarifs on fūd imports, ẃć wd wìcn Britn’z hand in tred ngośieśnz, n scrapñ guvnmntcmitmnts t rdys carbn imiśnz, a muv ɖt wd criet sgnificnt loñ-trm ic̣nomic n invîrnmntl costs fr ɖ YC.

Ɖ śalo sjsćnz rvil ɖ guvnmnt’s desṗreśn t gv votrz ɖ impreśn it z tecñ ax́n t adres ɖz harś ic̣nomic srcmstansz, bt wɖt spendñ eni muni. Ɖe r nt sirịs poḷsiz, bt fodr fr pres rlisz bfr ɖ locl ilex́nz.

Britn z xpirịnsñ a pṛloñd ic̣nomic mleiz. Wejz hv bn mostli stagnnt sins ɖ fînanśl crîsis, prodctivti hz bérli groun sins ɖen n sits 15% b’lo ɖ Ynîtd Stets, Jrṃni n Frans, n xtrnl śocs – ɖ slf-inflictd pen v līvñ ɖ YY’z sngl marcit n custmz yńn, n ɖ wor in Ycren – hv snt prîsz roc̣tñ.

Ɖr r no śortcuts t incrisñ livñstanddz. Eni aproć hz t b ʈri-proñd. Frst, ic̣nomic poḷsi nīdz t targit rîzñ prodctivti n t enśur ɖ spôlz r śerd īvnli wɖ implôīz ʈru incrist wejz, ptiklrli fr ɖoz in lo-peid wrc. Wn v ɖ rīznz in-wrc poṿti rets hv rizn z ɖt ɖr r tù mni jobz ɖt simpli d nt pe inuf t inebl ppl, ptiklrli ɖoz wɖ ćildṛn, t enśur a minimm standd v livñ. Ɖt cn b aćivd onli bî narowñ ɖ groʈgap btwn Lundn n ɖ sǎʈ-īst n ɖ rest v ɖ cuntri. It wd tec, at ɖ vri minimm, a radicl rībaḷnsñ v guvnmnt invstmnt in trnsport, infṛstrucćr n scilz awe fṛm ɖ rićist rījnz v ɖ cuntri, ẃć olrdi rsiv mor invstmnt p’ capita, twdz ɖ purist. Brexit hz onli md ɖs tasc hardr; it z fōrcast t sgnificntli rdys xports n t incris rījnl iniqoḷtiz ovr ɖ loñ trm.

Secnd, ɖ riyl-trmz cuts t beṇfits n taxcredits v ɖ past deced fr lo-incm faṃliz wɖ ćildṛn mst b rvrst. In an icoṇmi wɖ sgnificnt amǎnts v lo-peid wrc, ɖr wl olwz b a nīd fr guvnmnt t rīdistribyt incm twdz lo-incm peṛnts. Yt s’xesiv Cnsrṿtiv ćanslrz hv rdyst ɖ valy v beṇfits n taxcredits ovr tîm, wɖ sm faṃliz luzñ ɖ iqivḷnt v ʈǎzndz v pǎndz a yir fṛm ɖer hǎshold bujits, ẃl dliṿrñ xpnsiv incmtax cuts ɖt hv dispṛporśṇtli beṇfitd mor aflụnt hǎsholdz. Ɖs z anɖr ci rīzn ẃ in-wrc poṿti rets hv incrist n ẃ, in a cuntri az rić az ǎrz, ɖr r ppl, includñ ɖoz in wrc, rlayñ on fūdbancs t fīd ɖer ćildṛn. Ɖ s’port ɖt ɖ ćanslr, Riśi Sŭnac, hz anǎnst t hlp faṃliz wɖ eṇjibilz z tù ʈinli spred, includñ acrs hǎsholdz fr hūm it z nt criticl, līvñ ɖ purist faṃliz hoṛbli xpozd.

Last, ɖ guvnmnt nīdz t implimnt strucćṛl rformz t tacl ɖ hî cost v livñ. Ɖ most importnt v ɖz z hǎzñ, ɖ costs v ẃć irod tù mć v ppl’z pêćécs in wn fél swūp. Ɖ YC hz nvr bilt inuf hǎzñ wɖt sgnificnt public sectr invstmnt intu sośl hǎzñ; yt sośl hǎsbildñ levlz hv dropt dṛmaticli sins ɖ 1980z, līvñ ɖ sośl-hǎzñ stoc t dwindl az a rzult v deṃliśnz n ɖ rît t bai. Ɖs hz pśt mor n mor ppl hu hv litl hop v evr bayñ ɖer ǒn hom intu an oṿprîst prîṿt rentd sectr. Britn rjntli nīdz a program v public invstmnt in hǎsbildñ t criet mor aforḍbl homz fr rent.

Ɖz r loñ-trm ic̣nomic rformz ɖt rqîr sstend invstmnt. Īvn f pt in ples imīɉtli, ɖe wl tec tîm t fŭli dlivr fr ɖ icoṇmi. Yt ɖs z a guvnmnt ɖt swñz fṛm crîsis t crîsis, wɖ litl wilñnis or cpaṣti t plan fr ɖ nxt deced n a drʈ v îdīaz t adres Britn’z vri riyl n strucćṛl ic̣nomic probḷmz. Ɖs lacdezicl aproć wl probbli cnsîn s t yirz mor v slugiś groʈ ɖt drîvz incrisñ numbrz v faṃliz wɖ ćildṛn intu poṿti.

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Fṛm ɖ Gardịn │ Boris Johnson is flailing – so he is reviving his Brexit greatest hits

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Anti-Boris Johnson protesters outside Downing Street, London, April 2022. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images
Anti-Boris Jonsn pṛtstrz ǎtsd Dǎnñ Strīt, Lundn, Epril 2022. Foṭgraf: Tolga Acmén/AFP/Geti Iṃjz
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Boris Jonsn z flelñ – so h z rvîvñ hiz Brexit gretist hits

(Transcription of a Guardian article of 26 April 2022)

Ɖ prîm̦inistr’z plan t ovŗîd ɖ Norɖn Îrḷnd proṭcol z a tîrd rpit v ɖ dsoṇsti ɖt got him ilectd

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Raphael Behr

Rafel Behr, Tyzde 26 Epril 2022

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Wn de, ẃn Boris Jonsn z no longr prîm̦inistr, n ɖ fl caṭlog v hiz frōdz z cmpîld, a speśl ples wl b’loñ t wn ɖt got him ilectd in ɖ frst ples. Bfr h atndd eni locdǎn partiz, bfr ɖr wr pandemic rūlz t brec or lîz t tel abt ɖ brecij, ɖr wz ɖ promis t Gt Brexit Dn.

It z nt dn. Ɖt z ẃ Jonsn’z guvnmnt z draftñ a lw ɖt wd gv ministrz ɖ pǎr t ovŗîd ɖ Norɖn Îrḷnd proṭcol v ɖ Brexit dīl. Ɖs z ɖ vri trīti ɖt Jonsn hêld az “gret”, “xḷnt”, a flfilmnt v ol hiz ngośietñ ambiśnz. F ɖt wr tru, h wd nt nǎ b planñ t set it on fîr.

Sǎnd fmiłr? It śd d. It z ɖ lêtist sīql in a hacnid franćîz wɖ a forḿlêic plot. In ɖ Brex̣tir imaɉneśn it z an ax́n’dvnćr muvi. Bruslz hz tecn a porśn v YC sovṛnti hostij. Pluci Boris mst g in, ol gunz blezñ, t rtriv it. In sć esc̣pedz v derñ-du, pleyñ bî ɖ rūlz n rspctñ trītiz z fr rmonrsoftiz.

A recap fṛm prīvịs eṗsodz: t avôd riimpozñ a hard bordr on ɖ îḷnd v Îrḷnd, a speśl custmzreźīm wz agrìd fr ɖ Norʈ ɖt rqîrz ćecs on sm gdz crosñ fṛm ɖ Britiś mênḷnd. Jonsn sînd p t ɖs. Ministrz nǎ clem it wz nvr mnt t b a prṃnnt s’lūśn, bî ẃć ɖe mīn Jonsn laid t hiz Yṛpiyn cǎnṭparts az wel az hiz votrz. H nvr intndd t onr ɖ dīl.

Untl nǎ, ɖ guvnmnt’s ajteśn hz bn xprest bî fnġrñ, bt nvr qt pŭlñ, ɖ trigr on articl 16 – ɖ brec̦lōz ritn intu ɖ Brexit dīl. Bt articl 16 z a rùt t mor ngośieśn n mīdieśn wɖn ɖ scop v ɖ trīti itslf. It z a cnvnśnl wepn. Ɖ ny dvîs biyñ asmbld in ɖ Dǎnñ Strīt buncr gz ńclir.

Wl it b deṭnetd? Vetṛnz v past Brexit worz wl b fmiłr wɖ ɖ cost-beṇfit iqeźn. It cmz dǎn t a tst v ẃr Jonsn ʈncs hiz śort-trm slf-inṭrest lîz. Ɖ ʈiyri z ɖt it tecs a propr crîsis fr Bruslz t tec notis v Britiś grīvns. Cuṛntli, ɖ YY z adresñ ɖ Norɖn Îrḷnd qsćn in tecnicl, līgl trmz, via ɖ cmiśn. Jonsn wonts t esc̣let it t a dīl btwn p’liticl līdrz. H ʈncs a Britiś prîm̦inistr śd’nt hv t hagl wɖ byṛcrats. H śd b stićñ smʈñ p wɖ Paris n Brlin. Ɖt’s hǎ it wrct in ɖ old dez. Bt in ɖ old dez Britn wz a membr v ɖ YY. Ɖt z’nt hǎ it wrcs fr “ʈrd cuntriz”.

A dǎnsîd t confṛnteśn z ɖt it wd b dvîsiv at a tîm ẃn wstn neśnz r strîvñ fr soḷdaṛti ovr Ruśa’z atac on Ycren. On ɖt frunt, Jonsn ʈncs hiz cṛdnślz az a stōlẉt frend v Cyīv r sfiśntli wel istabliśt – n notd in Wośñtn – ɖt h hz rigl rūm t mc dmandz ovr Norɖn Îrḷnd, a subjict on ẃć ɖ Americnz mt prīvịsli hv slapt him dǎn.

Bt steṭs az ɖ most pro-Ycreńn līdr in ɖ rūm dz’nt gt Jonsn az far az h ʈncs in Bruslz, ẃr h z’nt in ɖ acćl rūm. H nīdz gdwil fṛm Emmanuel Macron t śift dipḷmatic dîlz fr him on ɖ Yṛpiyn caunsl. Ɖ Frenć prezidnt, wɖ a nyli aqîrd dmestic mandet bt a lot v trubl in hiz in-tre, w’nt spend eni p’liticl capitl dwñ fevrz fr a man h mstrusts, hvñ dlt wɖ him bfr.

Ɖ prîm̦inistr hz nvr bn wn fr cultvetñ foṛn alaynsz, sins it rqîrz cnsistnsi n rlạbiḷti. Hiz inṭrests r mor p’rocịl. Olso, wūndd bî Partiget, hiz foc̣s z nǎ on ɖ bér-nucl fît fr svîvl. T ɖt end, a confḷgreśn v YY iśuz mt hlp t ʈw rleśnz wɖ ɖ rîtwñ fax́n ɖt tṛdiśṇli setlz ɖ fet v Tori līdrz. It wd iṛtet modṛt MPz, bt ɖe r’nt az ruʈlis or az orġnîzd.

No rîvl fr ɖ līdrśp wl risc criṭsîzñ an act v hardlîn Brexit rvîṿlizm. Liz Trus, ɖ foṛn secṛtri, fansiz ɖ top job n z nośnli in ćarj v ngośieśnz ovr Norɖn Îrḷnd. Ś wd nt hv ćozn a mnūvr az wontnli vanḍlistic az ɖ proṭcol-ovŗîd bil, bt ś z sd t b recnsîld t ɖ muv. Ɖ ćanslr hz prīvịsli bn an obsṭcl ẃnvr Nu 10 hz wontd t pic fîts wɖ Bruslz, ćaṇlñ Treẓ́ri añzayti abt ɖ cost v a tredwor. Bt Riśi Sŭnac z badli dminiśt bî rīsnt p’liticl mșteps arnd tax – ɖ wnz h rezd fr votrz n ɖ wnz hiz nondoṃsîld spǎs avôdd peyñ. Jonsn no longr siz him az a ʈret.

Cabiṇt hz nt dscust ɖ plan t saḅtāj ɖ Brexit dīl in lw. Mć dpndz on ilex́nz nxt wīc. Ɖ Stormont-asmbli poul in Norɖn Îrḷnd cd trigr a crîsis bî mcñ Sinn Féin ɖ larjist parti. Yńnists wd ɖen lūz ɖ rît t nem ɖ frst ministr – a los v p’liticl prîṃsi ɖt wd b mostli simbolic, bt culćṛli intolṛbl fr ɖt rīzn. Mnẃl, f caunsl ilex́nz in Ñgḷnd rvil masiv discntnt wɖ Jonsn, Tori MPz me b sprd t muv agnst him.

Ɖen ɖr wd b dubl tmteśn t g ol in wɖ a Brexit bust-up. Jonsn wd se ɖt onli scrapñ ɖ proṭcol cd īz tnśnz in Norɖn Îrḷnd (olɖo in riaḷti ɖ ilex́n ɖr wl probbli śo a mjoṛti in fevr v cīpñ it). Ɖ ovŗîd lw mt nt īvn nīd t b pást. Ɖ prîm̦inistr wd b most inṭrestd in ɖ specṭcl – a batl wɖ Bruslz, obstrux́n in ɖ Hǎs v Lordz, ɖ fŭlṃneśnz v rmen-s’portñ libṛlz; a fîrwrcs dsple t gt ɖ old Yrosceptic cor vot ūwñ n āiñ in aprīśieśn, jst lîc ɖ old dez.

Wd it wrc? Probbli nt. Ɖ plej t Gt Brexit Dn hd sć bredʈ v apil bcz it rezd hop v endñ ɖ toxic, slf-involvd naśnl drama ovr an iśu ɖt most ppl hd nt cnsidrd ol ɖt importnt bfr a ćôs wz forst on ɖm in a reḟrendm. Onli a fnaticl mnoṛti misz ɖ fît inuf t rīstart it. N tde’z Jonsn hz lost ɖ nac ɖt hiz formr slf hd fr trnñ crîsis intu carnivl. Hiz leṿti no longr gts him līńnsi fṛm an ōdịns ɖt hz hŕd jst a fy tù mni lîz. Stl, ɖr wd b a srtn tîdi siṃtri f hiz dǎnfōl includd a Brexit bil ɖt ofrd fōls reẓluśn t a crîsis wɖt end – hiz last gret dsoṇsti in ofis biyñ a mirr v ɖ frst.

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