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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Rightwing thinktanks run this government. But first, they had to capture the BBC

Broadcasting House in London. Photograph: Ian West/PA
Brōdcastñhǎs in Lundn. Foṭgraf: Iyn Wst/PA
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Rîtwñ ʈnctancs run ɖs guvnmnt. Bt frst, ɖe hd t capćr ɖ BBC

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 5 October 2022)

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Ẃ r repriznttivz v ɖz śêḍli fundd grūps trītd az imparśl obzrvrz on flagśp nyzprogramz?

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George Monbiot

Jorj Monbio, Wnzde 5 Octobr 2022

Sm v it z īzi t unḍstand. Liz Trus, a holo vesl fild wɖ secndhand îdīaz bî ɖ darc-muni ʈnctancs, b’livd ɖer aśuṛnsz ɖt ɖ majic v an unreğletd marcit n taxcuts fr ɖ vri rić wd trigr an ic̣nomic būm. Ɖ ʈnctancs mst scersli hv b’livd ɖer luc: ɖt smwn so małbl cd bcm prîm̦inistr.

On ɖ de v ɖ minibujit, ɖe croud abt tecñ ovr ɖ guvnmnt. Ɖ Cnsrṿtiv Hom fǎndr, Tim Montgoṃri, rmarct ɖt ɖs wz “a masiv momnt” fr ɖ Insttyt v Ic̣nomic Aferz (IIA), ẃć hd “inkbetd Trus n Qarteñ jrñ ɖer rli yirz az MPz. Britn z nǎ ɖer l’boṛtri.” Ɖ hed v ɖ insttyt, Marc Litlwŭd, ɖen rītwītd hiz coment wɖ a súnglasz emoji.

Abv a scrīnśot v a Gardịn hedlîn ascñ “Hz Liz Trus handd pǎr ovr t ɖ xtrim niolibṛl ʈnctancs?”, ɖ IIA’z hed v public poḷsi, Máʈy Leś, rout “Yes”. Ɖ ic̣nomic dzastr inflictd bî Trus n Qarteñ hz bn dubd ɖ Tuftn Strīt Maṣcr, az ɖ grūps ɖt dvîzd ɖer poḷsiz r hedqortrd in n arnd Tuftn Strīt in Wsminstr.

I si ɖz ʈnctancs, ẃć rfyz t rvil ɖ sorsz v ɖer fundñ, az lobiists fr hidn inṭrests. W nǒ fṛm līcs n YS rports ɖt ɖz includ, in sm cesz, tbacofrmz, ôlfrmz n foṛn oḷgarcs. Bt ɖr z wn qsćn t ẃć nwn hz pṛvîdd a cmplit n saṭsfactri ansr.

De aftr de, yir aftr yir, ɖ BBC hz pṛvîdd ɖz xtrimists wɖ a masiv platform on its nyz n cuṛnt-aferz programz. Mejr BBC programz includñ Tde, Qsćntîm, Nyznît n Eni Qsćnz? r popyletd bî spīcrz fṛm ɖ Insttyt v Ic̣nomic Aferz, ɖ Adm Smiʈ Insttyt, ɖ Taxpeyrz’ Alayns, ɖ Sntr fr Poḷsistudiz n Poḷsi Xćenj. Ɖz grūps olso hapn t hv bn retd bî ɖ campen Hu Fundz Y? az amñ ɖ most opec v ol ɖoz it invstgetd.

Ẃn ɖ IIA cmplend t Ofcm abt ɖ brōdcastr Jemz Obrayn’z dscripśn v ɖ insttyt az a “hard-rît lobigrūp fr vstd inṭrests v big biznis, fosilfylz, tbaco, juncfūd” on hiz LBC śo, Ofcm rjctd its cmplent, rūlñ ɖt h hd nt dstortd ɖ facts. Yt ɖ cmbînd platform v ɖz darc-muni grūps on ɖ BBC z śrli mni tîmz bigr ɖn ɖt v eni uɖr non-parti grūpñ.

Ɖ BBC rūtīnli torćz its edtorịl gîdlînz, ẃć stet ɖt “w śd mc ćecs t istabliś ɖ cṛdnślz v ǎr cntribytrz n t avôd biyñ hoxt”. Ẃn ɖ IIA wz set p, wn v its fǎndrz instructd ɖt it śd oṗret az a fruntgrūp: “w śd gv no indceśn in ǎr litṛćr ɖt w r wrcñ t edycet ɖ public alñ srtn lînz”. Its maṇfesto, h sd, hd bn ritn in “ceji trmz”. It wz a hox fṛm ɖ ǎtset.

At frst, I ʈt ɖ probḷm wz nîīvti. Bt ɖen I sw ɖ BBC’z rsponsz t cmplents abt its fełr t istabliś ɖ cṛdnślz v its cntribytrz. Ɖe wr dfnsiv, iraśnl n contṛdictri. At wn pônt, ɖ BBC sd it wz’nt nesṣri t tel ɖ ōdịns ɖt a MP argywñ agnst clîṃt ax́n wz ɖ d’rectr v an ôlcumṗni, on ɖ grǎndz ɖt h hd dclerd ɖs inṭrest elsẃr. Sn afṭwdz it clemd ɖt ẃn gvñ ɖ hed v ɖ IIA a platform t argy agnst ny tbacoreğleśn, it wz’nt nesṣri t stet ɖt hiz orġnîześn hd bn fundd bî tbacocumṗniz, on ɖ grǎndz ɖt ɖ IIA hd nt dclerd ɖs inṭrest. F mî xpirịns z enʈñ t g bî, ɖ onli ifct v rezñ ɖz iśuz z t gt dīplatformd bî ɖ programz y criṭsîz.

In 2019, ɖ Obzrvr jrṇlist Cáṛl Cadwoḷdr spouc t ɖ ɖen BBC d’rectrjenṛl, Toni Hōl, abt ɖs bletnt disrigard v ɖ rūlz. In rspons, h ćenjd ɖ edtorịl gîdlînz t stet ɖt ʈnctancs’ afilieśnz n fundñ “śd b md aveḷbl t ɖ ōdịns, ẃn reḷvnt t ɖ contxt”. Ɖ poḷsi wz impḷmntd fr abt a fortnît, n hz bn disrigardd evr sins.

Nǎ ɖ sićueśn hz gn bynd satîr. Ɖz grūps r biyñ cōld upn bî ɖ BBC t coment on ɖ pformns v ɖs guvnmnt az f ɖe r imparśl obzrvrz, rɖr ɖn ɖ oʈrz v its poḷsiz.

I no longr b’liv ɖ BBC’z fełr t uphold its ǒn rūlz z an axidnt. I b’liv it’s a poḷsi. Bt ẃ? Apizmnt z olwz part v ɖ ansr: ɖ BBC constntli sīcs t pḷcet ɖ biłnerpres n Cnsrṿtiv guvnmnts. Mor importntli, it hz olwz bn a dfndr n pṛjectr v istabliśt pǎr.

Ɖ BBC’z ćer z Rićd Śarp. Mć hz bn md v Śarp’s dneśnz t ɖ Cnsrṿtiv parti. Bt hiz rleśnśp wɖ ɖ darc-muni ʈnctancs cnsrnz m īvn mor. H wz a d’rectr v ɖ Sntr fr Poḷsistudiz (SPS), a darc-muni grūp fǎndd bî Marġrit Ʈaćr n Cīʈ Jozif. On ɖ de v Qarteñ’z minibujit, ɖ SPS clemd rsponsbiḷti fr sevṛl v hiz ci anǎnsmnts. Śarp’s faṃlifǎndeśn hz olso dnetd t ɖ Insttyt fr Poḷsi Rsrć, ẃć z mor trnspaṛnt abt its fundñ bt in trn sndz fundz t ɖ Sntr fr Poḷsistudiz n ɖ Taxpeyrz’ Alayns, anɖr opec lobigrūp ɖt hz trumṗtd its inflụns. Ɖ Taxpeyrz’ Alayns hz loñ campend t scrap ɖ BBC’z lîsnsfī. Ɖ BBC grants it, unlîc uɖr critics, a masiv amǎnt v ertîm.

I’m śr ɖr’z mor t ɖs stori ɖn w yt nǒ. It’s hard t b’liv hǎ frīli ɖ BBC brecs its ǒn rūlz t pṛmot n norṃlîz an xtrim niolibṛl cult. Niolibṛlizm z ɖ inṭlecćl justiḟceśn fr ɖ claswor wejd bî ɖ rić agnst ɖ pur. Ɖ BBC z part v ɖ tīm.

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Fair play to Truss: stripped of competence or compassion, her extremism is refreshingly clear

‘Liz Truss can’t escape the temper of the times, which has turned against her and her party.’ Truss delivers her conference speech in Birmingham on Wednesday. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP
‘Liz Trus c’nt iscep ɖ tmpr v ɖ tîmz, ẃć hz trnd agnst hr n hr parti.’ Trus dlivrz hr confṛns spīć in Brmñm on Wnzde. Foṭgraf: Crsti Wiglzwrʈ/AP
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Fer ple t Trus: stript v compitns or cmpaśn, hr xtrimizm z rfreśñli clir

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 7 October 2022)

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Ɖs z hǎ bad guvnmnts dî – wɖ ɖ masc fōḷn awe, ɖer wrst fes rvild

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Jonathan Freedland

Joṇʈn Frīdḷnd, Frîde 7 Octobr 2022

Z  it tù sn t ofr a smōl wrd in dfns v Liz Trus? I aprīśiet ɖt ɖs z a lonli indevr. In ẃt śd b hr hunimūn pirịd, ɖ ny prîm̦inistr hz instd prizntd ɖ ilectṛt wɖ multipl grǎndz fr dvors. Poulñ sjsts ś’z abt az popylr az a Covid swet. Stl, Trus dzrvz prêz fr wn ʈñ at līst. Ẃt ś brñz t ǎr naśnl lîf z an admṛbl claṛti – ɖo phps nt in ɖ we ś intndz.

Ɖ Cnsrṿtivz hv bn in pǎr fr mor ɖn 12 yirz, n fr mć v ɖt tîm ɖe hv bn hard t pin dǎn. Devid Camṛn wz ilectd az a cmpaśṇt Cnsrṿtiv, ol husciz n hŭdiz n “ɖ big ssayti”. In riaḷti, h impozd a pirịd v osteṛti ɖt hit ɖ purist hardist, starvd cḿṇtiz v ćeriśt srṿsz n left cǎntlis nebrhdz nglectd n deṛlict. Fṛm wn sîd v hiz mǎʈ, Camṛn’z ćanslr, Jorj Ozbōrn, sd, “W’re ol in ɖs tgɖr”; fṛm ɖ uɖr, h pitd “strîvrz” agnst “scîvrz”.

T’rīza Me cem nxt, proṃsñ t tacl “brnñ injusṭsz” n redietñ snṣbl midl Ñgḷnd dīsnsi. In riaḷti, ś hd t cīp p wɖ a parti hot wɖ Brexit fīvr, cnsymd bî a project ɖt got pṛgresivli mor xtrim. Ɖ contṛdix́nz incrist n ɖ opaṣti ʈicnd wɖ Boris Jonsn, a libtīn cntmtẏs v ɖ standdz v prsnl conduct hiz parti wns hld dir; a Tori wɖ a põśõ fr big spendñ, ɖ bulc v it tarġtd, h promist, at ɖ parts v ɖ cuntri ɖt nīdd it most. A “Brex̣ti Heza” h wns cōld himslf, nodñ t Mîcl Hesltîn’z s’port fr an acṭvist stet, īvn az h trampld on ɖ formr depyti PM’z dvośn t ɖ Yṛpiyn îdiyl.

Ol v ɖs mnt ɖt fr mor ɖn a deced Cnsrṿtizm wz a śiftñ targit, its reṭric n its ax́n ofn d’recli at odz. Bt nǎ ɖr’z Trus, huz gret gift t Britn z a bresñ lac v amḅgywti. Wɖ no dstractñ vnir v compitns, dīsnsi or cmpaśn – îɖr riyl or boġs – ś ofrz instd a necidli îdịlojicl form v cnsrṿtizm.

Its instñts r unhidn. It fevrz ɖ rić ovr ɖ pur. Witnis bʈ Qāzi Qarteñ’z nǎ-abandnd jūsi taxcut t ɖ 1% n Trus’z cntinywñ rfyzl t plej ɖt beṇfits wl cīp pes wɖ a gaḷpñ ret v infleśn: f ɖe d’nt, ɖ nīdiist wl hv t gt bî on īvn les.

It yrnz fr a smōl stet, wn ɖt z līn in sîz n mīn in practis. Trus’z guvnmntl miniṃlizm z so unbndñ, ś vītoud a £15m public-inḟmeśn campen ɖt wd hv hlpt Brítnz rdys ɖer eṇjicnsumśn, ɖr-bî lowrñ ɖer bilz n hlpñ ɖ planit. Trus ʈt ɖt smact tù mć v ɖ hand v nani, īvn ɖo Jecb Rīs-Mog – a man hu nz mor ɖn z hlʈi abt naniz – hd apruvd ɖ plan. N so ɖ Naśnl Grid z bresñ s fr a wintr v disc̣nct, wɖ śort dez n loñ pǎrcuts – a ʈrǒbac t ɖ 1970z az vivid az wn v ɖoz Ćanl 5 clipcomṗleśn śoz ɖt w cd woć f onli w wr’nt sitñ in ɖ darc.

Ɖs z a necid cnsrṿtizm ɖt b’livz in itslf wɖ sć frvr it ʈncs facts śd mc we fr its fanṭsiz. Borowñ fr taxcuts in a pirịd v srjñ infleśn wz olwz gwñ t spūc ɖ marcits, bt Trus’z feʈ tld hr uɖ̇wz. Ś wz dtrmind t jump of ɖ clif, insistnt ɖt ol ɖ tōc v graṿti wz so mć stufi sạntific “orʈ̇doxi”.

Ɖ rfyzl t bǎ t impiricl evidns, t riaḷti, z Trus cnsrṿtizm’z dfînñ fīćr. Its oṛjinz r nt mstirịs. W mt cōl it Brex̣tizm: ɖ crīd ɖt holdz ɖt ɖ riyl wrld, īvn ɖ facts v jiogṛfi, cn b bnt t yr wl, jst bî clozñ yr îz n wśñ it wr so. Az ɖ FT coḷmnist Martin Wlf pts it: “Trus dz nt hv a groʈplan. Ś hz a ‘groʈplan’ – a majicl pośn intu ẃć ś sprinclz ɖ rvrsl v rīsnt tax incrisz, frīdm fr bancrz’ boṇsz n lowr taxz fr ɖ prospṛs, sz ‘abṛc̣dabra’ n sudnli trend prodctivtigroʈ qodṛplz.”

D’nt b msléd bî ɖ sirịl U-trnz, olrdi a sigṇćr v ɖ Trus ira. It’s tru ɖt ś promist ɖr wd b no eṇjiraṣ́nñ, n nǎ w’r set t fes ɖ crūdist form v raṣ́nñ, nemli blacǎts. Tru, tù, ɖt ś sd ɖr wd b no “handǎts”, īvn ɖo hr frst wīc in ofis sw hr bǎ t riaḷti n hand ǎt hlp on eṇjibilz, olbiit hlp peid fr bî ǎr ǒn fyćr taxz rɖr ɖn bî a levi on ɖ garganćụn xes profits v ɖ eṇji jaynts. N yes, ś abandnd ɖ aḅliśn v ɖ 45p taxret, bérli 24 aurz aftr ś’d sd ś wd stic wɖ it. Bt ɖoz rvrsz d nt sjst dctrînl cmplex̣ti, stl les straṭji. Ɖ onli stori ɖe tel z wn v wìcnis n heṃrijñ s’port.

Fr necid cnsrṿtizm z unpaḷtbl īvn t Cnsrṿtivz. Ɖs wīc, wn Nedīn Doriz akzd Trus v “lrćñ t ɖ rît”, adñ ɖt a de facto cut in beṇfits wz “cruwl”. V cors, ɖ hipocṛsi z ranc: Doriz’ aidl, Jonsn, cut yṇvrsl credit n wd hv dnaid fri scūlmīlz t hungri ćildṛn hd it nt bn fr Marc̣s Raśfd. Bt ẃn y’v got bʈ Rīs-Mog n Doriz – ɖ Sid n Nansi v ɖ Tori hard rît – t yr left, y nǒ y’v streid far fṛm īvn ɖ wîldist śorz.

Ɖs stripñ awe v ɖ caṃflāź, ɖs xpoźr v ɖ Tōriz’ hardist cor, ofrz wn uɖr conṣleśn bsdz claṛti. It cariz wɖ it ɖ sns v an endñ. Fr ɖs z hǎ bad guvnmnts ofn dî, ɖ masc fōḷn awe, ɖer wrst fes rvild. Trus wl trî t rali ɖ trūps, stŕñ ɖm wɖ ɖ fmiłr het – īvn f “rmenr ilīts” n “sitiznz v nẃr” r nǎ rībrandd az ɖ rɖr les punći “anti-groʈ cọliśn”. Bt ś c’nt iscep ɖ tmpr v ɖ tîmz, ẃć hz trnd agnst hr n hr parti.

Fr mor ɖn a deced, ɖ cuntri hz bn rūld bî ɖoz hu hv cōzd grev damij n gret hrt. Ofn ɖt wz cnsild bî smuɖ tōc, a ćarmñ manr or wîld proṃsz. Liz Trus z nt blest wɖ sm v hr prīdisesrz’ gifts fr dspśn. Instd hr xtrimizm z xpozd fr ol t si. It mīnz w cn si hr – n ol ɖ rotņis ɖt lîz bnʈ.

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Fṛm Đ Obzrvr: Liz Truss’s disastrous ‘fiscal event’

Liz Truss and her chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, have delivered a financial package straight out of the Singapore-on-Thames fantasy of right-wing Tory Brexiters. Photograph: WPA/Getty Images
Liz Trus n hr ćanslr, Qāzi Qarteñ, hv dlivrd a fînanśl pacij stret ǎt v ɖ Snġpor-on-Tmz fanṭsi v rît-wñ Tori Brexitrz. Foṭgraf: WPA/Geti Iṃjz
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Ɖ Obzrvr vy on Liz Trus’z dzastṛs ‘fiscl ivnt’

(Transcription of an editorial published in the Observer on 25 September 2022)

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Ɖs wz a brezn gambl ɖt cn onli damij Britn’z fyćr

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Súnde 25 Sptmbr 2022

Ɖ  frst mejr fiscl inṭvnśn bî a ny prîm̦inistr hz śrli nvr bn grītd wɖ sć wîdspred dsden. Les ɖn ʈri wīcs intu Liz Trus’z premịrśp, hr ny ćanslr, Qāzi Qarteñ, anǎnst ɖ bigist program v taxcuts in haf a snć̣ri, wn ɖt wl beṇfit ɖ vri wlʈiist ẃl adñ tnz v biłnz t ɖ naśnl dét. Ɖ marcitriax́n wz instnteńs: ɖ pǎnd dropt t its lǒist levl agnst ɖ dolr sins 1985. Ɖ “groʈplan” wz rubiśt bî ʈnctancs sć az ɖ Insttyt fr Fiscl Studiz. Bac-bnć Cnsrṿtivz lambastd ɖ plan az “ic̣nomicli dybịs”. N Lari Sumrz, ɖ formr YS Treẓ́risecṛtri, akzd ɖ YC v bhevñ lîc an “imrjñ marcit trnñ intu a submrjñ marcit”.

Ɖoz r jst vrdicts on ɖ substns v Frîde’z rmarcbl anǎnsmnts. Ɖ YC icoṇmi z suḟrñ az a rzult v ɖ globl eṇjiprîs śoc n a deced v pur prodctivtigroʈ, md wrs bî irectñ hyj barịrz t tred wɖ ɖ YY. Ɖz srcmstansz r mcñ evrwn purr, wɖ ptiklrli deḷtirịs consiqnsz fr lo-incm hǎsholdz wɖ ćildṛn, ppl wɖ dis’biḷtiz n pur pnśnrz. Ẃt z despṛtli nīdd z rjnt s’port tarġtd at ɖ hardist-hit hǎsholdz, plus ɖ invstmnt in scilz, infṛstrucćr n biznisfînans t rībaḷns ɖ icoṇmi awe fṛm groʈ best on cnsymrspendñ, fyld bî rîzñ hǎsprîsz, n twdz biznis invstmnt n xports.

Instd, Qarteñ hz anǎnst a set v taxcuts ɖt ćanl hyj genz t ɖ vri rićist n a scatrgun plan fr dīreğletñ ɖ icoṇmi. Dspt ɖ fact ɖt ɖs z a hyjli sgnificnt fiscl inṭvnśn, h hz privntd ɖ indipndnt Ofis fr Bujit Rsponsbiḷti fṛm pṛdysñ its ǒn fōrcasts, implōẓbli clemñ hiz meźrz wl pt ɖ YC on a paʈ t trend groʈ v 2.5%. Bt – qac īc̣nomics asd – ɖr z no plōẓbl ʈiyri v ćenj ɖt lincs Qarteñ’z taxcuts t sć boynt groʈ. Ɖe wl mc s purr az ɖ détbrdn b’lūnz.

Ɖ taxcuts wl hv teṛbl consiqnsz fr levlz v iniqoḷti n poṿti in Britn. Īvn bfr ɖ eṇjiprîs crîsis, lo-incm hǎsholdz fest a grim rec̣nñ: a deced v cuts t taxcredits bî Cnsrṿtiv ćanslrz, ẃć peid fr taxcuts dispṛporśṇtli beṇfitñ ɖ mor aflụnt, hz ript opn ɖ fînanśl seftinet so importnt fr lo-peid peṛnts t cīp ćildṛn ǎt v poṿti. Hǎsholdz in rsit v yṇvrsl credit wl b olmst £1,500 a yir wrs of fṛm Octobr az a rzult v infleśn n rîzñ eṇjiprîsz. Ɖ Reẓluśnfǎndeśn hz fōrcast ɖt, tecñ intu acǎnt yesṭde’z anǎnsmnts, anɖr 700,000 ćildṛn wl b livñ in poṿti in tū yirz’ tîm, wɖ consiqnsz fr ɖer edyceśn, hlʈ n implômnt fr ɖ rest v ɖer lîvz.

Mnẃl, it z ɖ rićist hu stand t gen most fṛm last wīc’s anǎnsmnts, includñ ɖ scrapñ v ɖ 45% taxret n ɖ cap on bancrz’ boṇsz. Ppl wɖ incmz v les ɖn £155,000 wl pe mor incmtax fṛm nxt Epril; ɖoz on mor ɖn ɖs wl gen, ofn sbstanṣ́li: smwn wɖ an ańl incm v mor ɖn £1m wl b mor ɖn £40,000 a yir betr of. Hǎsholdz in ɖ top 5% v wlʈdistṛbyśn wl gen, on aṿrij, mor ɖn £8,000 a yir az a rzult v Qarteñ’z ćenjz; ɖoz in ɖ purist 10% gt nʈñ. Ɖt wd iqet t pṛvîdñ s’port v £2,000 fr evri hǎshold amñ ɖ purist 20%, ẃć wd d far mor t būst groʈ gvn ɖt ɖ wlʈi r mor lîcli t sev ɖ rwordz ɖe gen. Az a rzult v Qarteñ’z fiscl lūṣnñ, ɖ Banc v Ñgḷnd z olmst srtn t hîc inṭrestrets īvn frɖr in ɖ cmñ wīcs, inflictñ frɖr pen on ɖoz wɖ morġjz or in dét. N, ẃn ɖ promist groʈ felz t mtirịlîz, ɖs z lîcli t pś ministrz twdz cutñ public-srvis bujits frɖr, īvn az NHS n scūl fînansz r olrdi undr svir stren.

Ɖr z no deṃcratic mandet fr ɖs pacij: Trus hz nvr wún a jenṛl ilex́n n ɖ meźrz marc a hyj śift fṛm ɖ 2019 maṇfesto. Bt ɖ Qarteñ pacij z ɖ oft hopt-fr desṭneśn v ɖ hard-rît Tori flanc. Fr ɖm, Brexit wz olwz a mīnz t an end: t slaś taxz n reğleśnz t a dgri ɖt ivedd īvn Marġrit Ʈaćr. Bt ɖr z nʈñ Cnsrṿtiv abt gvñ uņesṣri handǎts t ɖ rić n brḍnñ ɖoz in ɖer 20z n 30z wɖ ɖ cost v fînansñ ɖ xtrordnri rîz in ɖ naśnl dét fr ɖ rest v ɖer wrcñlivz. No cuntri hz s’xesḟli aćivd groʈ ʈru ɖz mīnz. Ɖ “Snġpor-on-Tmz” fanṭsi v Cnsrṿtiv Brexitrz z jst ɖt: Snġpor z a tîni, oʈoṛterịn sitistet ɖt spendz a gret dīl on its hîli activ industrịl poḷsi. Wn acdemic studi v 18 OICD icoṇmiz faund ɖt taxcuts d nʈñ fr groʈ n instd incris incm iniqoḷti.

Trus n Qarteñ’z îdịlojicl aproć criets a sgnificnt ćans fr Lebr t śo it hz an oltrṇtiv ic̣nomic viźn fr Britn at its particonfṛns ɖs wīc. Cir Starmr hz sd ɖt Lebr wd invst in mcñ Britn slf-sfiśnt in ilectriṣti bî 2030, bî būstñ rnywbl sorsz v eṇji, n ɖt z xacli ɖ bold ʈncñ ɖ cuntri nīdz. Bt ɖ teṛbl truʈ z ɖt huevr winz ɖ nxt ilex́n wl inherit wn v ɖ wrst-evr ic̣nomic ǎtlŭcs az a product v Trus’z brezn, îdịlojicl xperimnt. It wl cost ɖ cuntri dir.

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have made a declaration of class war

‘Taking from those who have least, lavishing gifts on those who have most.’ Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng on a visit to Berkeley Modular in Kent. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/AP
‘Tecñ fṛm ɖoz hu hv līst, laviśñ gifts on ɖoz hu hv most.’ Liz Trus n Qāzi Qarteñ on a vizit t Brcli Modylr in Cnt. Foṭgraf: Diḷn Martinez/AP
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Liz Trus n Qāzi Qarteñ hv md a decḷreśn v claswor

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 23 September 2022)

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Ɖs un’fiśl bujit z moṛli indifnsbl, ic̣nomicli reclis n so risci it sjsts a p’liticl deʈwiś

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Jonathan Freedland

Joṇʈn Frīdḷnd, Frîde 23 Sptmbr 2022

Ś  mcs Marġrit Ʈaćr lc lîc a modṛt n Ronld Regn sīm poztivli wet. Liz Trus hz imbarct on an îdịlojicl project so xtrim ɖt ɖ de facto bujit anǎnst bî hr ćanslr tde amǎnts t a decḷreśn v claswor. It wz a rvrs Robin Hŭd: tecñ fṛm ɖoz hu hv līst, laviśñ gifts on ɖoz hu hv most. It z moṛli indifnsbl, ic̣nomicli reclis n so p’liticli risci az t sjst a deʈwiś.

Trusonomics rests on a simpl articl v feʈ: ɖt bî rwordñ ɖ olrdi wlʈi, lîf wl impruv fr evrwn els. Tricl-dǎn īc̣nomics, ɖe cōld it bac in ɖ 1980z, n it dd’nt wrc ɖen. Nǎ it’s bac in a form mor starc, mor xtraṿgnt, ɖn īvn its most ardnt aposlz evr derd contmplet.

Ɖ jeṇroṣti twdz ɖ ampli blest wz breʈtecñ. Qāzi Qarteñ’z ttemic muv wz ɖ rmuvl v ɖ cap on bancrz’ boṇsz – az f ɖ numbr wn probḷm cnfruntñ Britn tde wz ɖt bancrz r’nt rić inuf. It’l b Cristl magṇmz ol rnd in ɖ Siti, obvịsli, bt Lebr HQ śd olso rêz a glas: ɖ’v jst bn handd an ataclîn ɖt canot fel. Ɖ Cnsrṿtiv prīdisesrz v Trus n Qarteñ hd no prínsipld objx́n t letñ bancrz rsiv teḷfoņumbr boṇsz, bt hld of bcz ɖe ń ɖ optics wr so scrīmñli ōfl. Ɖ ny dyo hz no sć rstrent.

N so ɖe hv dlivrd ɖ bigist taxcuts in haf a snć̣ri, ǎtstripñ ɖ landmarc Nîjl Lwsn bujit v 1988 – n ɖer larjes z emd sqerli at ɖ top. Qarteñ dsîdd it wz ɖoz in ɖ hîist taxbracit hu nīdd hlp, so h aboliśt ɖ top ret oltgɖr. Ɖt wl hand an aṿrij £10,000 t ɖ hîist-rnñ 600,000 ppl in ɖ cuntri: litṛli ɖ wn psnt.

Ɖ ćanslr cansld a pland incris in corṗreśntax: mor gd nyz fr ɖ bōrdrūm. Īvn ɖ scrapt rîz in naśnl inśuṛns wl beṇfit ɖ hîist rnrz most. (Az fr sośl cer, ẃć despṛtli nīdz ɖ muni ɖt NI rîz wz gwñ t pe fr, hu nz ẃr ɖt caś wl cm fṛm – f it cmz at ol.) Litl wundr ɖt wn v ɖ rliist ćirz fr Qarteñ’z un’fiśl bujit cem fṛm ɖ Wlʈclub, ẃć ofrz invstmntsrṿsz t ɖoz v “hî net wrʈ”. Ɖe luvd it.

W śd’nt fget ẃt rmenz ɖ larjist fiscl muv v ɖ Trus admiṇstreśn, īvn f it wz anǎnst nirli tū wīcs ago: ɖ £150bn t b spent on frizñ eṇjibilz. T b śr, ɖt wl beṇfit evrwn, bt ges hu’z gwñ t pe fr it. It cd hv bn a windfōl tax on ɖ garganćụn, unrnd, xesiv profits v ɖ fosilfyl jaynts, ẃć hv sìn biłnz fōl intu ɖer laps ʈancs t ɖ srjñ prîs v ôl n gas cōzd bî Vladīmir Pūtin’z sqolid wor on Ycren. Ɖt wz ɖ pot v muni ɖt cd, n śd, hv hlpt hold dǎn eṇjibilz.

Bt Trus n Qarteñ prifŕd t pṛtct ɖ eṇjicumṗniz n t boro instd. Ɖt wl rac p a dét ɖt wl hv t b rpeid bî ɖ taxpeyrz v tde n tmoro. Ɖoz in ɖ ny admiṇstreśn hd a ćôs. Ɖe cd hv taxt BP n Śel, bt ɖe ćouz t ples ɖ brdn on ordnri faṃliz. So no mor tōc fṛm ɖm, or eni Cnsrṿtiv, v biyñ “on ɖ sîd v taxpeyrz”. Ɖs guvnmnt hz śaftd taxpeyrz n ɖer ćildṛn.

Stl, claswor z nvr jst abt lcñ aftr yr ǒn. It’s olso abt hrtñ ɖ eṇmi. So ɖ ćanslr md śr t anǎns ɖt ɖ unimploid wl si ɖer beṇfits slaśt f ɖe c’nt pruv ɖ’r srćñ fr mor wrc. N īvn ɖo ɖ tredyńnz hv a frax́n v ɖer formr streñʈ, Qarteñ promist lejsleśn t śrinc wrcrz’ abiḷti t act tgɖr yt frɖr. No matr hǎ litl caś or pǎr ɖ nīdiist hv hld on t, ɖ śerif v Notñm z aftr it.

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Qāzi Qarteñ dlivrz swīpñ cuts in lêtist minibujit – vidio hîlîts

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Ɖ moṛl ces agnst Trusonomics z cmpelñ, bt sm v ɖ most trenćnt opziśn t tde’z anǎnsmnts cem nt on grǎndz v cmpaśn or fernis, bt hard-hedd īc̣nomics. Aṇlists wr struġlñ nt t b rūd, az ɖe xamind a pacij v meźrz huz premis hz bn ʈuṛli dscredtd bî historicl xpirịns. Ɖ nośn ɖt cutñ taxz fr ɖ wlʈiist fylz groʈ t sć an xtnt ɖt “taxcuts pe fr ɖmslvz” z a ʈiyri fr ẃć ɖr z scant evidns. It’s lîcli ɖt ɖ Ofis fr Bujit Rsponsbiḷti wd hv md ɖs pônt, hd it nt bn sîḷnst bî Trus, apaṛntli añśs t avôd indipndnt scrūṭni v hr planz.

Īvn stǎt dfndrz v Ʈać̣rizm n Reġnomics bōlc at ɖ cmparisn wɖ ɖer hiroz. Trus me hv fgotn ɖt Ʈaćr’z rli cuts t incmtax wr baḷnst bî a nir duḅlñ v VAT: ɖ frst fīmel PM wz a fiscl cnsrṿtiv hu wontd ɖ cuntri’z sumz t ad p. Az fr hr 1988 taxcuts, ɖe cem onli wns infleśn wz lo n ɖ icoṇmi growñ. Regn cut taxz n masivli incrist ɖ YS deḟsit, bt h tù actd at a tîm ẃn infleśn wz cmñ undr cntrol.

Bî contrast, Qarteñ’z stiḿḷspacij, dzînd t jolt ɖ icoṇmi intu groʈ, arîvz alñsd sōrñ infleśn: it’s ʈrowñ petṛl on ɖ fîr. Ɖt wl pś ɖ Banc v Ñgḷnd t rêz inṭrestrets, ẃć wl mc lîf periḷsli hard fr ɖoz wɖ a morgij. Sm me nt b ebl t cīp p wɖ stīpli incrist munʈli pemnts – a denjr t ẃć ɖ guvnmnt z apaṛntli oblivịs. Mnẃl, guvnmntborowñ z gtñ mor xpnsiv – ɖ cost v it lept īvn az Qarteñ spouc – n ɖ valy v strlñ z plunjñ. Ẃn Iliẓbʈ II wz crǎnd, a pǎnd bòt $2.81; in ɖ munʈ v hr deʈ, it baiz les ɖn $1.10. Ɖt z ɖ marcits’ vrdict on ẃt tde’z Britn z wrʈ.

Az fr ɖ poḷtics, phps ppl wl b so hapi wɖ ɖ xtra £330 ɖe gt fṛm ɖ cansld naśnl-inśuṛns rîz, ɖ’l oṿlc ɖ fact ɖt ɖ Tōriz r handñ at līst 30 tîmz ɖt sum t ɖ wlʈiist wn psnt. It’s poṣbl ɖ’l jst b gretfl ɖer eṇjibil z capt. Mbi ɖt’s hǎ ɖz ʈñz wrc. Oltrṇtivli, ɖ Trus guvnmnt hz jst ritn ɖ script fr Lebr’z nxt ilex́ncampen. It hz ofrd p wn vivid targit aftr anɖr. Hǎ cn Tori MPz lc “red wōl” votrz in ɖ î n dfnd uncapt bancrz’ boṇsz, gv’wez fr ɖ rićist n xes profits fr ɖ eṇjijaynts, ẃl ppl strugl wɖ śrincñ wejz, rîzñ prîsz n imposbl morgijpemnts?

Trus n Qarteñ nīd a groʈmiṛcl, an adreṇlin injx́n intu ɖ icoṇmi ɖt trnz ʈñz arnd in les ɖn tū yirz. Miṛcl mt jst b ɖ rît wrd, bcz ɖs z nt a poḷsi grǎndd in rīzn – it z an act v nir-rlijs feʈ, wn ɖt wd hv md īvn its petṛnsents ćoc. It olso vaylets ɖ most besic nośn v fernis. Ẃt a sît t bhold: a guvnmnt ɖt spent 10 dez v naśnl mōrnñ paysli xtolñ Britiś valyz nǎ tramṗlñ ol ovr ɖm.

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Has Liz Truss handed power over to the extreme neoliberal thinktanks?

‘To a greater extent than any previous leader, Liz Truss’s politics have been shaped by organisations that call themselves thinktanks, but would be better described as lobbyists who refuse to reveal who funds them.’ Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
‘T a gretr xtnt ɖn eni prīvịs līdr, Liz Trus’z poḷtics hv bn śept bî orġnîześnz ɖt cōl ɖmslvz ʈnctancs, bt wd b betr dscrîbd az lobiists hu rfyz t rvil hu fundz ɖm.’ Foṭgraf: Anadolu Ejnsi/Geti Iṃjz
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Hz Liz Trus handd pǎr ovr t ɖ xtrim niolibṛl ʈnctancs?

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 23 September 2022)

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Ɖ prîm̦inistr z in hóc t a grūp v rîtwñ lobiists hu r ɖmslvz indétd t oḷgarcs n corṗreśnz

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George Monbiot

Jorj Monbio, Frîde 23 Sptmbr 2022

Hu ćouz Liz Trus? Cnsrṿtiv-parti membrz, v cors. Hu r ɖe? Dispṛporśṇtli rić, ẃît, oldr men livñ in ɖ sǎʈ v Ñgḷnd. Bt ɖr r sm membrz huz profîl w hv no mīnz v nwñ. Ɖe d’nt liv in ɖ YC, hv nvr bn rezidnts or sitiznz hir n hv no rît t vot in ǎr ilex́nz. Astoṇśñli, sins 2018 ɖz foṛn membrz hv bn pmitd t dtrmin hu ɖ YC prîm̦inistr śd b.

Ɖ Cnsrṿtiv parti’z rūlz v asośieśn r an opn invteśn t enwn hu wonts t mes wɖ ǎr poḷtics. Ɖr sīmz t b nʈñ t stop ejnts v anɖr guvnmnt fṛm rejisṭrñ az membrz wɖ Cnsrṿtivz Abrōd. Nr, it sīmz, z ɖr enʈñ t stop wn prsn (or wn bótsworm) aplayñ fr multipl membrśps. So mć fr ɖ parti v petrịtizm, sovṛnti n naśnl s’kṛti.

Ɖs opn invteśn, t juj fṛm ɖ litl inḟmeśn w cn glīn, hz yt t b fŭli xplôtd. Phps foṛn guvnmnts hv’nt yt riylîzd ẃt a goldn oṗtyṇti ɖ’v bn gvn. Phps ɖe simpli c’nt b’liv hǎ irisponsbl ɖ Tōriz r.

Bt w d’nt nīd t sjst a campen bî anɖr stet t si Trus az a cnd v Manćŭrịn Canddet, sbvrtñ ẃt rmenz v ǎr dmocṛsi on bhaf v undeṃcratic inṭrests. Az a rūl, ɖ mor lǎdli a poḷtiśn pṛclemz ɖer petrịtizm, ɖ mor lîcli ɖe r t act on bhaf v foṛn muni. Evri rīsnt Cnsrṿtiv prîm̦inistr hz plest ɖ inṭrests v trnznaśnl capitl abv ɖ inṭrests v ɖ neśn. Bt, t a gretr xtnt ɖn eni prīvịs līdr, Trus’z poḷtics hv bn śept bî orġnîześnz ɖt cōl ɖmslvz ʈnctancs, bt wd b betr dscrîbd az lobiists hu rfyz t rvil hu fundz ɖm. Nǎ ś hz bròt ɖm intu ɖ hart v guvnmnt.

Hr sīńr speśl advîzr, Ruʈ Portr, wz cḿṇceśnz d’rectr at ɖ Insttyt v Ic̣nomic Aferz (IIA), an xtrim niolibṛl lobigrūp. An invstgeśn bî ɖ dmocṛsi campen Trnzpaṛfî listd ɖ IIA az “hîli opec” abt its fundñsorsz. W nǒ fṛm a comḅneśn v līcs n YS fîlñz ɖt it hz a hisṭri v tecñ muni fṛm tbacocumṗniz n sins 1967 fṛm ɖ ôlcumṗni BP, n hz olso rsivd larj dsbrsmnts fṛm fǎndeśnz fundd bî YS biłnerz, sm v ẃć hv bn amñ ɖ mejr sponsrz v clîṃtsayns dnayl. Ẃn ś wrct at ɖ IIA, Portr cōld fr rdysñ hǎzñbeṇfit n ćîldbeṇfit, ćarjñ peśnts t yz ɖ NHS, cutñ oṿsìz ed n scrapñ grīn fundz.

Ś ɖen bcem hed v ic̣nomic n sośl poḷsi at Poḷsi Xćenj, ẃć wz olso listd bî Trnzpaṛfî az “hîli opec”. Poḷsi Xćenj z ɖ grūp ɖt (aftr Portr left) cōld fr a ny lw agnst Xtñśn Rbełn, ẃć bcem, in formr homsecṛtri Priti Ptél’z handz, ɖ P’līs, Crîm, Sntnsñ n Corts Act. W lêtr dscuvrd it hd rsivd $30,000 fṛm ɖ YS ôlcumṗni Xón.

Liz Trus, acordñ t ɖ hed v ɖ IIA, hz spocn at mor v its ivnts ɖn “eni uɖr poḷtiśn ovr ɖ past 12 yirz”. Tū v Trus’z mītñz wɖ ɖ orġnîześn wr dlitd fṛm ɖ ofiśl record, ɖen riinstetd aftr ɖ dliśnz cōzd a scandl.

Mor importntli, Trus wz ɖ ostnsbl fǎndr, in 2011, v ɖ fri-enṭprîz grūp v Cnsrṿtiv MPz. Ɖ grūp’s webpej wz rejistrd bî Ruʈ Portr, hu at ɖ tîm wrct fr ɖ IIA. Ɖ IIA orġnîzd ivnts fr ɖ grūp n s’plaid it wɖ mīdịbrīfñz. Twelv membrz v ɖ cuṛnt cabiṇt, includñ sevṛl v its most sīńr figrz, b’loñd t ɖ grūp. Tde, f y trî t opn its webpej, y r rīdirectd t ɖ Fri-Marcit Foṛm, ẃć cōlz itslf “a project v ɖ Insttyt v Ic̣nomic Aferz”.

Trus’z ćīf ic̣nomic advîzr z Máʈy Sncler, formrli ćīf xektiv v a similr lobiyñgrūp, ɖ Taxpeyrz’ Alayns. It z olso fundd obskrli bî foṛn donrz. Sncler rout a bc cōld Let Ɖm Īt Carbn, argywñ agnst ax́n t privnt clîṃt brecdǎn. It clemd ɖt: “Eqtorịl rījnz mt sufr, bt it z intîrli poṣbl ɖt ɖs wl b baḷnst ǎt bî eriaz lîc Grīnḷnd.” In uɖr wrdz, w cn tred ɖ livz v biłnz v ppl agnst ɖ prospects v sm v ɖ līst inhaḅtd plesz on Rʈ. It’s amñ ɖ most caḷs n ignṛnt stetmnts I’v evr sìn.

Trus’z inṭrim preșecṛtri, Alix Wîld, wz rsrć d’rectr at ɖ sem orġnîześn. Hr hlʈ advîzr, Caṛlîn Elsm, wz sīńr rsrćr at ɖ Sntr fr Poḷsistudiz, ẃć wz listd bî Trnzpaṛfî az – y gest it – “hîli opec”. Hr p’liticl secṛtri, Sofi Jarvis, wz hed v guvnmnt’ferz at ɖ Adm Smiʈ Insttyt (olso “hîli opec”), n fundd, amñ uɖrz, bî tbacocumṗniz n YS fǎndeśnz.

Ɖz grūps repriznt ɖ xtrim frinj v niolibṛlism. Ɖs mntenz ɖt hymn rleśnśps r intîrli trnzax́nl: w’r motvetd abv ol bî ɖ psyt v muni, ẃć śeps ǎr bhevyr. Yt, hlerịsli, ẃn y ćalinj ɖm abt ɖer fundñ, ɖe dnî ɖt ɖ muni ɖe rsiv inflụnsz ɖ pziśnz ɖe tec.

Fr decedz, poḷsidveḷpmnt on ɖ rît wz śept az foloz. Oḷgarcs n corṗreśnz fundd ɖ ʈnctancs. Ɖ ʈnctancs pṛpozd poḷsiz ɖt, bî śir cǒinsidns, sūtd ɖ inṭrests v oḷgarcs n corṗreśnz. Ɖ biłnerpres – olso ǒnd bî oḷgarcs – rportd ɖz poḷsipṛpozlz az briłnt insîts bî indipndnt orġnîześnz. Cnsrṿtiv fruntbnćrz ɖen sáitd ɖ prescuṿrij az evidns v public dmand: ɖ vôs v ɖ oḷgarcs wz trītd az ɖ vôs v ɖ ppl.

In hiz ōṭbîogṛfi Ʈnctanc, Madsn Piri, fǎndr v ɖ Adm Smiʈ Insttyt, xplend hǎ it wrct. Evri Saṭde, in a wînbar in Lstr Sqer, stāf fṛm ɖ Adm Smiʈ Insttyt n ɖ Insttyt v Ic̣nomic Aferz wd sit dǎn wɖ Cnsrṿtiv rsrćrz n līdŗaitrz n coḷmnists fṛm ɖ Tîmz n Teḷgraf t plan “straṭji fr ɖ wīc ahd” n “co-orḍnet ǎr activtiz t mc s mor ifctiv c’lectivli”. Ɖ Dêli Meil weid in t hlp ɖ lobiists rfîn ɖer arğmnts n enśur ɖr wz a s’portiv articl on its līdrpej evri tîm ɖe publiśt a rport.

Bt nǎ ɖ ʈnctancs d’nt nīd a rnd’bt rùt. Ɖe r no longr lobiyñ guvnmnt. Ɖe r ɖ guvnmnt. Liz Trus z ɖer canddet. T dfnd ɖ inṭrests v globl capitl, ś wl wej wor agnst eni comn indevr t impruv ǎr livz or pṛtct ɖ livñ planit. F Lebr z lcñ fr a ʈri-wrd slogn wɖ ẃć t fît ɖ nxt ilex́n, it cd d wrs ɖn “Mnd Ɖs Cuntri”.

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: They love the super-rich and want to slash the welfare state: meet the new team at No 10

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Ɖe luv ɖ sūpŗić n wont t slaś ɖ welfér stet: mīt ɖ ny tīm at Nu 10

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 19 September 2022)

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Fṛm a Lintn Crozbi ac̣lît t ɖ man hu ran ɖ Taxpeyrz’ Alayns, Liz Trus hz srǎndd hrslf wɖ zeḷts – n ɖe cd d a lot v damij

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Zoe Williams

Zǒi Wiłmz, Munde 19 Sptmbr 2022

It’s īzi t mis, ẃn y hv a prîm̦inistr hu dz’nt lc qt p t ɖ job, hǎ mć damij ɖe cn d. I md ɖs mstec wɖ T’rīza Me n Brexit. Hǎ cd ś pl of sć a sêizmic ʈñ, rqîrñ so mć psweźn, ẃn ś cd’nt īvn cnvinsñli se hlo t a smōl grūp v ppl? Śrli ol w hd t d wz wêt n ɖ hol ʈñ wd implod? I wz rît in so far az ś cd’nt mc Brexit hapn, bt feld t pridict hǎ mć wrs ɖ project wd b bî ɖ tîm ś hd finiśt trayñ.

In ɖ spirit v nt unḍesṭmetñ Liz Trus, ɖen, let’s tec a lc at hr tīm: hr ćīf v stāf z Marc Flbrŭc, inṭvyd bî ɖ FBI abt wrc h dd fr a Veṇzweḷn-Itałn bancr akzd v brîbñ ɖ guvnr v Puerto Rico. (In ɖ inṭrests v fernis, w śd spel ǎt ɖt h wz spocn t az a ptnśl witnis, nt a suspect.) A Lintn Crozbi ac̣lît n vri loñtîm Cnsrṿtiv campenr, Flbrŭc z noun t hv nîs manrz bcz ɖt z a ʈñ in Dǎnñ Strīt nǎ. F y d’nt scrīm at ppl ɖ hol tîm, y’r ɖ wn-aid man in ɖ land v ɖ blînd.

Ɖr r tū poḷsigaiz cōld Jemz Hariz n Jêmi Hop, bʈ so yuñ ɖt it’s cnsidrd imṗlît t asc ẃr ɖe cem fṛm az ɖ ansr wd b “scūl”. Speśl advîzr Sofi Jarvis z ex-Adm Smiʈ Insttyt, d’rectr v straṭji Iyn Cartr wrct wɖ Crozbi n Flbrŭc, anɖr spad, Jesn Stein, wrct fr Prins Andru, n ɖ ćīf ic̣nomic advîzr, Máʈy Sncler, yst t run ɖ Taxpeyrz’ Alayns preśrgrūp. Vot Līv, ɖ rîtwñ gosipsait Gīdo Fōcs n ɖ Sntr fr Poḷsistudiz s’plî ɖ rest v ɖ bacgrǎnd t ɖs vividli zeḷs, îdịlojicli hoṃjīńs set, huz mantra z: śrinc ɖ stet.

Poḷsiwoncs n mor left-līnñ ʈnctancs spend a lot v tîm aṇlîzñ ẃt stetśrincñ lcs lîc acrs a renj v s’nārioz: in sośl-s’kṛti trmz, it mīnz ɖs mni ćildṛn wɖt scūlyṇform, in ɖ NHS it mīnz ɖz stāfśorṭjz, ɖoz wêtñlists, in infṛstrucćr trmz it mīnz: “Let’s hop ɖ Frenć n Ćînīz cn fund it, n hu cerz f ɖe ɖen ǒn it?”, in leṿlñ-up trmz it mīnz: “Ha, dd eni v y acć̣li swolo ɖt nonsns?”

Bt ɖt doṃnopicćr v dclîn, wn dzastr nocñ intu anɖr, z jst ɖ fun-t-woć ǎtcm. Ɖ frst n last beṇfiṣ́riz v śrincñ ɖ stet n wrṣ́pñ ɖ marcit r ɖ sūpŗić: nt ɖ midlclasz, nt ɖ smōl n mīdịm-sîzd bizṇsz, nt ɖ hard-graftñ wlʈcrietrz, bt ɖoz v hî net wrʈ.

Ɖs z modn Cnsrṿtizm – it wrcs flat ǎt in ɖ inṭrests v a clas t ẃć onli a hanfl v its ci pleyrz b’loñ. Ɖ parti’z mn donrz nǎ r hejfundrz n proṗtidveḷprz, so y cd fînd an xpḷneśn ɖr: v cors ɖ Tōriz hv t prîoṛtîz ɖ HNWz, uɖ̇wz ẃr r ɖe gwñ t fînd a sper 10 grand – dǎn ɖ bac v ɖ cnstitẏnsi-ofis sofa? Bt ɖt rīẓnñ dz’nt qt gt ɖr fr m, or at līst, nt ol ɖ we: ẃt wd pṛpel a prsn, hu z probbli peid qt moḍstli bî sūpŗić standdz, t endlisli pś ɖ cōz v ɖer wlʈi oṿlordz? R ɖe ʈncñ, “Wn de, I, tù, wl hv an istet lîc Jecb Rīs-Mog’z, or a £180 mug lîc Riśi Sŭnac – I jst hv t g bac in tîm n b hî-born, or mari a biłner”?

I mīt ɖ ʈnctancrz piriodicli on cuṛnt-aferz śoz, mnli fṛm ɖ Insttyt v Ic̣nomic Aferz, n smtmz ʈnc ɖer wrldvy hz a rlijs qoḷti: “Ɖoz rić ppl r simpli betr ɖn s; ɖe xist in a stet v gres. Ẃ qsćn it, ẃn it’s so obvịs?” It wd b īzịr t cǎntr f ɖe sd it ǎt lǎd bt ɖe nvr tōc abt “rić ppl”, onli “marcits”.

N ẃn ɖe se “stet”, v cors, ɖe mīn s. Ɖe plan t śrinc s, ǎr oṗtyṇtiz, ǎr lîvz. D’nt unḍesṭmet ɖm. Y d’nt hv t b compitnt, stl les lojicl, t mc a hel v a mes.

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Forget ‘levelling up’ – Liz Truss isn’t even pretending to care about inequality

‘What is Truss’s message to voters who live in the kind of areas still routinely termed ‘left behind’?’ Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters
‘Ẃt z Trus’z mesij t votrz hu liv in ɖ cnd v eriaz stl rūtīnli trmd ‘left bhnd’?’ Foṭgraf: Pītr Niclz/Rôtrz
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Fget ‘leṿlñ-up’ – Liz Trus z’nt īvn pritndñ t cer abt iniqoḷti

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 18 September 2022)

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Undr Boris Jonsn, ɖ ajnda feld bcz v inc̣hiṛns n incompitns. Fr ǎr ny PM, ɖ probḷm’z îdịlojicl

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John Harris

Jon Haris, Súnde 18 Sptmbr 2022

Az ɖs most strenj n sriyl v naśnl momnts hz unfoldd, vôsz v pǎr n inflụns hv constntli tōct abt naśnl yṇti n śerd fīlñ. Ɖ mīdia r sudnli awoś wɖ “w” n “s”. Ol ɖoz flǎrz, flagz n banrz imbodi ɖ sem mesij: ɖt ẃtvr ɖs cuntri’z tnśnz n rzntmnts, ɖ Ynîtd Cñdm rmenz xacli ɖt. Bt, bî a grim axidnt v tîmñ, ẃn poḷtics rzymz ɖs wīc ɖ bigist stori wl b abt smʈñ ɖt sjsts ɖ xact oṗzit: a guvnmnt so uncnsrnd bî ɖ hyj gaps ɖt dvîd ppl n plesz ɖt it z gwñ t wîdn ɖm īvn frɖr.

Frîde wl si ɖ mć-treld “fiscl ivnt” in ẃć ɖ ny ćanslr, Qāzi Qarteñ, wl ǎtlîn ɖ dītelz v ɖ guvnmnt’s eṇjiprîs frīz n ɖ taxcuts promist bî Liz Trus in hr campen fr ɖ Tori līdrśp. Ɖ Reẓluśn Fǎndeśn recnz ɖt, on aṿrij, ɖ rićist tnʈ v hǎsholdz wl beṇfit fṛm ɖz meźrz bî abt £4,700 a yir, ẃl ɖ purist tnʈ wl rsiv £2,200. Bî we v adñ insult t inɉri, twdz ɖ end v last wīc nyz brouc v Qarteñ’z pś t rmuv ɖ xistñ cap on bancrz’ boṇsz, a leġsi v ǎr membrśp v ɖ YY. Az wɖ Trus’z hostiḷti t an xtndd windfōl tax on ɖ big eṇjicumṗniz, hir wz mor prūf v hr guvnmnt’s ci intnśn: t “g fr groʈ” bî priṿlijñ wlʈi n pǎrfl ppl n inṭrests, in ɖ hop ɖt dwñ so mt būst ɖ YC’z ǎtpt.

Clirli, ɖt aproć līvz litl rūm fr ɖ jumbl v poḷsiz, reṭric n haf-formd intnśnz noun az leṿlñ-up. Ɖt ajnda wz eilñ olrdi: īvn az Boris Jonsn cntinyd t tōc p sm imajind rībaḷnsñ v Britn az hiz big miśn, transportplanz sntrd on ɖ norʈ v Ñgḷnd wr cansld n cut, ɖ Ẃîthōl scīmz ɖt rplest YY fundñ fr ɖ rījnz v ɖ YC trnd ǎt t b a śado v ẃt prisidd ɖm, n ɖ loñ-awêtd leṿlñ-up ẃîtpepr wz trnd intu a nonivnt bî Riśi Sŭnac’s rfyzl t bac it wɖ eni ny public muni. Bt in ɖ wec v Jonsn’z fōl, leṿlñ-up hz bn sîdlînd īvn az a veg îdīa.

T nwn’z gret s’prîz, Trus’z frst spīć ǎtsd Dǎnñ Strīt md no mnśn v ɖ trm at ol. Ɖ Dpartmnt fr Leṿlñ-up, Hǎzñ n Cḿṇtiz z nǎ ɖ rsponsbiḷti v ɖ lo-wotij Tori ministr Sîmn Clārc. Ǎt in ɖ riyl wrld, ɖ cmpaṛtivli smōl-scel projects fundd bî £4.8bn v dedcetd leṿlñ-up muni r nǎ ʈretnd bî rîzñ infleśn – n lêt last wīc, ɖ Fînanśl Tîmz rportd ɖt amñ bʈ locl caunslz n Ẃîthōl insîdrz, “ɖr wz no xpcteśn v xtra caś fṛm sntṛl guvnmnt”. So far, wn v ɖ fy glimrz v ʈncñ abt rījnl iniqoḷti amñ Trus n hr alîz hz bn a fuzi sjsćn ɖt “srtn eriaz” wl b trnd intu lo-tax, dīreğletd enṭprîz̦onz – a rīhītd vrśn v an old n feld îdīa, n a far crî fṛm past leṿlñ-up proṃsz v infṛstrucćr, impruvd edyceśn n ol ɖ rest.

Undr Jonsn, leṿlñ-up’s fełr cd b pt dǎn t a lac v chiṛns n compitns. Bt in Trus’z ces, ɖ sns v ɖ îdīa hitñ ɖ wōl z ɖ rzult v îdịlojicl cnvix́nz hîlîtd in hr frst big TV inṭvy. For dez bfr ɖ Qīn daid, ś apird on ɖ BBC’z ny program Súnde wɖ Lora Kuenssberg, ẃr ś wz asct bî ɖ host ẃ ś wz prîoṛtîzñ taxcuts ɖt wd hyjli beṇfit ppl at ɖ top. Trus blîɖli cnsidd ɖ pônt. “Bt t lc at evrʈñ ʈru ɖ lénz v rīdistṛbyśn, I b’liv, z roñ,” ś cntinyd. “Bcz ẃt I am abt z growñ ɖ icoṇmi, n growñ ɖ icoṇmi beṇfits evrbdi.”

Trus ń ɖ sgnificns v ẃt ś wz trayñ t xplen, īvn f Kuenssberg dd’nt sīm t. “Ɖs z a riyli importnt pônt,” ś insistd. “Ɖ ic̣nomic dbet fr ɖ past 20 yirz hz bn doṃnetd bî dscuśnz abt rīdistṛbyśn. N ẃt hz hapnd z, w hv hd reḷtivli lo groʈ … n ɖt hz bn holdñ ǎr cuntri bac.”

Sūṗfiṣ́li, ɖs z a vri strenj vy v ɖ past tū decedz: wz ɖt pirịd riyli so “doṃnetd” bî a dbet abt fernis n iniqoḷti ɖt it stîfld ɖ icoṇmi? Īvn in ɖ Ny Lebr ira, sīńr poḷtiśnz tndd t cīp qayt abt sć ʈñz: Gordn Brǎn’z rīdistribytiv poḷsiz, let s nt fget, hapnd larjli bî stelʈ. Morovr, wns Devid Camṛn n Jorj Ozbōrn tc ovr, osteṛti enśurd ɖt iniqoḷti – nt līst in its rījnl maṇfsteśnz – got mć, mć wrs. So hu or ẃt wz Trus’z targit?

Ẃt ś wz riyli bmonñ, it sīmz t m, wz ɖ trn Tori poḷtics tc aftr ɖ Brexit reḟrendm. T’rīza Me n Jonsn me hv qoḷfaid ɖer tōc abt ɖ YC’z iniqoḷtiz bî insistñ ɖt ɖe dd nt intnd t tec muni fṛm eriaz at ɖ top v wlʈ n incm rancñz. Bt ɖe nnɖles tōct p ɖer foc̣s on dis’dvantijd ppl n plesz, n clemd ɖt ɖe cd yz ɖ stet t start t rīśep ɖ Britiś icoṇmi. In Febrri ɖs yir, ɖ ɖen leṿlñ-up secṛtri, Mîcl Gov, cntrastd leṿlñ-up wɖ “tricl-dǎn īc̣nomics”, n sd ɖt f ɖ fri marcit wz left t itslf, “ɖen ẃt y si z iniqoḷti growñ”.

Ɖs z ẃt Trus n hr alîz hv sīmñli cm t avnj: az Ʈać̣rît tru b’livrz, ɖe ʈnc ɖt īvn ɖ most hafhartd inṭvnśnizm mt līd t ruin (hns hr iniśl rjx́n v “handǎts” t īz ɖ eṇjicrîsis), n ɖt ultiṃtli, iniqoḷti z jst anɖr wrd fr ẃt mcs capiṭlizm so dnamic. Hr felo Tōriz si ɖs linćpin v hr b’lifs vri clirli. “Ś hz an ajnda, it’s qt îdịlojicl, n it’s vri Cnsrṿtiv,” sz Ozbōrn. “W dd’nt gt ɖt wɖ îɖr Boris Jonsn or T’rīza Me.”

Ɖt last pônt z tru. Ɖ fact ɖt Trus’z tū prīdisesrz sd ɖe wd muv awe fṛm post-Ʈaćr Toriizm, in fact, wz a big part v ɖ rīzn ẃ ɖ p’liticl loyltiz v formr Lebr hartḷndz bgan t śec in 2017, līdñ t ɖ fōl v ɖ so-cōld red wōl tū yirz lêtr. Hvr dluźnl it me nǎ sīm, plenti v ppl in sć plesz hd votd t līv ɖ YY in a spirit v hop, n bʈ Me n Jonsn ɖen dd ɖer bst t cnvins ɖm ɖt ɖer opṭmizm wz’nt msplest.

Nǎ w r sudnli in a vri difṛnt p’liticl clîṃt. Ẃt, y cn onli wundr, z Trus’z mesij t votrz hu liv in ɖ cnd v eriaz stl rūtīnli trmd “left bhnd”? Ɖt ɖe òt t damp dǎn ɖer hops, d ɖer bst t gt ʈru hard tîmz, n rjôs f sm śŭgŗuś būm in fînanśl srṿsz pśz p naśnl incm bî a fy p’snt? F ɖt rmenz hr guvnmnt’s aproć, miłnz v ppl wl nǒ xacli ẃt ɖe r dīlñ wɖ: ɖ end v eni linġrñ hops ɖt leṿlñ-up wd mīn enʈñ, n ɖ rtrn v ɖ crīdo ɖt enśurd ɖe wr left bhnd in ɖ frst ples.

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Trussonomics is a fanatical, fantastical creed, and the last thing Britain needs

Illustration: Nate Kitch/The Guardian
Iḷstreśn: Nêt Cíć/Ɖ Gardịn
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Trusonomics z a fnaticl, fantasticl crīd, n ɖ last ʈñ Britn nīdz

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

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Jst ẃn w nīd viźnz v a betr wrld, ɖ prîm̦inistr z pṛclemñ ɖ toxic gospl v niolibṛlizm

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George Monbiot

Jorj Monbio, Saṭde 17 Sptmbr 2022

Sn, ɖ foc̣s wl rtrn, n ɖ c’laps v mni ppl’z ic̣nomic prospects wl doṃnet wns mor. Az wintr aproćz, it wl bcm clir ɖt ǎr poḷtics z spectaklrli lacñ in ansrz.

Ẃ? Bcz ɖ doctrin dstroyñ ǎr cndiśn v lîf z ɖ doctrin Liz Trus hz promist t xtnd t ny xtrīmz. Ś z fnaticli dvotd t an îdioḷji mslidñli cōld Ʈać̣rizm or Reġnizm (az f ɖe invntd it), bt mor akṛtli dscrîbd az niolibṛlizm.

Ɖs doctrin insists ɖt poḷtics sbmits t “ɖ marcit”, ẃć mīnz, ẃn trnzletd, ɖt dmocṛsi mst sbmit t ɖ pǎr v muni. Eni impedimnt t ɖ akḿleśn v wlʈ – sć az public ǒnrśp, tax, reğleśn, tredyńnz n p’liticl protest – śd b torn dǎn, îɖr qcli n nôẓli or slǒli n stelʈ̇li. Ẃn cnsymrćôs z unincumbrd bî p’liticl inṭfiṛns, ɖ marcit z alaud t bcm a Gret Winowr, siftñ s intu a naćṛl hîrarci v winrz n luzrz.

Ɖ doctrin hz rlijs, qāzi-Calvnist aspects: in ɖ cñdm v ɖ marcit w cn si hu z dzrvñ n hu z undizrvñ ʈru ɖ gres bstoud upn ɖm bî ɖ god v muni. Eni poḷsi or protest ɖt sīcs t dsrupt ɖ formeśn v a naćṛl ordr v rić n pur z an unwoṛntd ste upn ɖ dvîn wil v ɖ inviẓbl hand.

Fr 40 yirz or so, niolibṛlizm in ɖ YC hz bn unćalinɉbl. Fr ɖ Cnsrṿtivz, ispeṣ́li ɖoz popyletñ ɖ cuṛnt cabiṇt, ɖ dogma canot b śecn bî mir evidns v harm, īvn ẃn ɖs includz ɖ desttyśn v miłnz n ɖ c’laps v Rʈ sistmz. Fr Lebr, it sets bǎnḍriz ɖt canot b crost, fr fir v puniśmnt bî ɖ biłnerpres. Az ǎr poḷtics hz trnd frɖr n frɖr twdz niolibṛlizm’z gliṭrñ srṭntiz, eni dīvieśn fṛm ɖ doctrin z acin t blasfmi. Bt ɖ cuntriz in ẃć ɖ îdioḷji hz bn most firsli aplaid r ɖoz ɖt hv sìn ɖ stīpist dclînz in bʈ ɖer ic̣nomic n sivic prospects.

Niolibṛlizm promist ɖt it wd jeṇret groʈ. Ɖ beṇfits v ɖs groʈ wd tricl fṛm ɖ rić t ɖ pur, inhansñ evrwn’z cndiśnz v lîf. Bt groʈ, fr betr or wrs, hz bn slowr gloḅli jrñ ɖ niolibṛl ira ɖn jrñ ɖ yirz bfr Ʈaćr, Regn n ɖer mni iṃtetrz cem t pǎr. N it hz bn oṿẃlmñli capćrd bî ɖ vri rić. Far fṛm enśurñ ɖt muni triclz dǎn, niolibṛlizm z ɖ pump ɖt śifts wlʈ fṛm ɖ pur t ɖ rić.

In ɖ YS, fr xampl, jrñ ɖ 1960z n rli 1970z, ɖ gretist beṇfiṣ́riz v ic̣nomic groʈ wr ɖ purist 20%. Bt fṛm 1980 onẉdz, ɖ prosīdz v groʈ wr trnsfŕd fṛm ɖ purist ppl t ɖ ultṛrić. Mīdịn incm in ɖ YS rouz at jst wn-ʈrd v ɖ ret v GDP groʈ, ẃl ɖ incm v ɖ rićist 1% rouz at ʈri tîmz ɖ ret. Bî cmparisn t ɖ prīniolibṛl trend, ɖ botm 90% lost $47tn btwn 1975 n 2018. Btwn 1990 n 2020, ɖ wlʈ v YS biłnerz, ajustd fr infleśn, incrist rufli twelvfold. Ɖr’z a similr stori in ɖ YC. V ɖ purist 10% v hǎsholdz, olmst haf nǎ hv mor déts ɖn asets.

Nn v ɖs z axdntl. Niolibṛlizm z sold t s az a mīnz v inhansñ frīdm n ćôs, bt in riaḷti it’s abt pǎr. It śifts tax n reğleśn fṛm ɖoz hu r rić n pǎrfl on t ppl hu r pur n wìc. Ɖ taxz ɖ wlʈi wns peid hv bn trnsfŕd t ɖoz wɖ far smōlr rzorsz.

Lc at Trus’z pṛpozl fr adresñ ɖ eṇjibilz crîsis. Instd v taxñ ɖ record profits v ôl n gas cumṗniz, ś’z yzñ ɖ taxz ɖ rest v s pe t alǎ ɖm t cīp rêcñ in monstṛs sumz. Īvn ɖs poḷsi, prizntd az a mīnz v hlpñ pur ppl wɖ ɖer bilz, wl, ẃn cmbînd wɖ ɖ ny cuts in naśnl inśuṛns, enśur ɖt ɖ rićist hǎsholdz rsiv twîs az mć hlp wɖ ɖer livñcosts az ɖ purist hǎsholdz.

Ɖ “plan fr groʈ” on ẃć Trus campend wz pyr niolibṛl gospl: “cut taxz nǎ, unśacl biznis fṛm brdnsm reğleśn, implimnt s’plîsîd rform … criet ny, lo-tax, lo-reğleśn ‘invstmntzonz’”. Hr ci advîzrz r drwn fṛm covrtli fundd niolibṛl ʈnctancs. Ś wl g az far az ilectṛl poḷtics alǎ in trnsfŕñ wlʈ fṛm ɖ pur t ɖ rić, atacñ tredyńnz n pṛtstrz, oṗnñ ɖ fludgets fr p’lūśn n grīnhǎs gasz n dsmemḅrñ ɖ NHS. Olrdi, hr guvnmnt hz flotd pṛpozlz t scrap Ñgḷnd’z anti-obiṣti meźrz n t rmuv ɖ cap on bancrz’ boṇsz, ɖ prṗs v ẃć z t dscurij ɖ reclis gamblz ɖt cōzd ɖ last fînanśl craś.

Aftr 40 yirz v ɖs xperimnt, w cn stet wɖ confidns ɖt ɖ ic̣nomic s’xes it pṛclemd z iluẓri. Its bai-nǎ-pe-lêtr īc̣nomics wrcs bî infletñ asetvalyz n hǎsholḑét n brnñ ʈru hymn rleśnśps, cndiśnz v implômnt n ɖ livñ wrld. Nǎ ɖt ɖr z litl mor t brn, Marġrit Ʈaćr’z fîr z rdyst t embrz, az z mć v ɖ wrld w ń. Yt Trus sīcs onli t briɖ lîf intu ɖ colz. N ɖs z ẃn it gts riyli denjṛs.

Az niolibṛlizm wejz wor on sośl s’kṛti n ɖ public sectr, impovṛśz miłnz n dstrôz cndiśnz v implômnt, its p’liticl consiqnsz cd b az dzastṛs az its ic̣nomic consiqnsz. In ɖ 30 yirz folowñ ɖ secnd wrldwor, olmst evrwn in poḷtics rec̣gnîzd ɖt privntñ ɖ rsrjns v fasizm mnt enśurñ evrwn’z nīdz wr met, ʈru a stroñ sośl seftinet n r’bust public srṿsz. Bt niolibṛlizm stript ɖz dfnsz awe, ẃl śutñ dǎn ćôs in ɖ nem v ćôs. Ʈaćr pṛclemd “ɖr z no oltrṇtiv” n Lebr apirz, evr sins, t hv agrìd. Wrs stl, ɖ dogma hz at ɖ sem tîm pṛmotd xtrim slf-inṭrest n īgosentriṣti. At its hart z a maʈ̇maticli imposbl promis: evrwn cn b Nu 1.

In ɖ gap btwn gret xpcteśnz n lo dlivri, hymilieśn n rzntmnt gro. In ɖz cndiśnz, it z īzi fr deṃgogz t blem ɖ fṛstreśn v ppl’z hops on scepgǒts: wimin, asîḷmsīcrz, Mŭzlimz, Juz, blac n brǎn ppl, dsebld ppl, LGBTQ ppl, yńnz, ɖ left, pṛtstrz. Hisṭri śoz ɖt ẃn p’liticl ćôs z lacñ n ppl si no prospect v rlif, ɖe bcm hîli ssptbl t ɖ transfr v blem. Ɖ transfr – atacñ refyjīz n f’mntñ culćrworz – z olrdi wel undr we. Trus’z tecnīcs v dstrax́n opn ɖ dor t fasizm. I no longr fînd it imposbl t si ɖ faŗît swormñ intu ɖ poḷsi vakm left bî Cnsrṿtiv indifṛns n Lebr tmidti, n tecñ pǎr in ɖs cuntri.

W nīd riyl, inspîrñ oltrṇtivz, poẓtiv viźnz v a betr wrld, rɖr ɖn cmpitñ modiḟceśnz v ɖ dzastṛs îdioḷji ɖt got s intu ɖs mes. W nīd hop.

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