The Starmer government is more interested in anticapitalist posturing than in helping the British people. The post UK Labour Refuses to Relieve the Energy Crisis appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage UK Labour Refuses to Relieve the Energy Crisis The Starmer government is more interested in anticapitalist posturing than in helping the British people. UK Special Coverage When Labour was restored to government in July 2024 after nearly a decade and a half in the political wilderness, Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised that economic growth would be his government’s number one priority. Chancellor Rachel Reeves conducted seminars with prominent business figures, insisting that Labour understood that businesses must make profits to survive and invest. Starmer said “wealth creation” was Labour’s…Open
No UK political party has an answer to the crisis. The post The British Energy Crunch appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage The British Energy Crunch No UK political party has an answer to the crisis. UK Special Coverage The British nation is already burdened by crushing energy costs and is bracing for a dramatic increase in that load. To gauge the impact of coming energy price rises in Britain, you must first understand what is sometimes called the “unriching” of the UK. This is a supposedly wealthy country which no longer feels wealthy. Real wages have barely risen in real terms since before the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. Brits have been through the longest pay freeze since the Napoleonic Wars. So the average…Open
Labour still has irresoluble internal faults. The post Starmer Survives a Palace Coup, But for How Long? appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage Starmer Survives a Palace Coup, But for How Long? Labour still has irresoluble internal faults. UK Special Coverage It is an old adage in war and politics that, if you’re going to take out your leader, you’d better not miss. You also need to be sure that the politicians who’ve said they’ll support you in a palace coup are serious people. Unfortunately, the Scottish Labour grandee, Anas Sarwar, failed on both counts. Yesterday he voiced what many Labour MPs have been saying privately for months and called openly for the beleaguered Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign. “Too many mistakes,” he…Open