When Winning is Losing

The Truss/Kwarteng mini-budget was so brazenly "fuck-the-poor" and "fuck-the economy" that there is no way that it could have been anything other than intentional (not necessarily understood by Truss & Kwarteng but whoever is pulling their strings).

Someone is creating as much damage to the economy as possible knowing the next government,  no matter who they are, cannot possibly restore widespread prosperity within a single term.

If Labour wins, they will face an impossible task. All attempts to reverse the policies, and put right the wrongs, will be like administering a foul-tasting medicine to a child.

Four years of sour-tasting medicine and the Tories will be there blaming the pain and suffering on whoever is in power. Tories will be there with promises of sunny uplands and tax cuts and a gullible public who are suffering like never before will take the Tory lies just like they took Johnson's lies on the side of a bus.

Labour may win the next GE, but they will be in power for a single term only.

UNLESS

Labour do the one thing that they have never been able to do; face the public and tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

The truth is that the UK economy is now in catastrophically bad shape.

The truth is that fixing the economy will take years and will be painful.

The truth is that Brexit will never work, and whilst we cannot rejoin any time soon, being outside the single market will unavoidably stall any chance for a UK recovery.

If Labour cannot deliver that bitter medicine, or if the UK refuses to swallow it then the UK should expect the disease  "fuck-the-poor" and "fuck-the economy" to ravage the country and accept the inevitable terminal prognosis.

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