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Liz Truss is Right – the Cultural Hegemony of the Left is Impeding Britain’s Economic Growth

by J. Sorel
19 April 2023 11:00 AM

One old Cameronite howler was that economic questions could be separated from cultural ones. This was one of the project’s many ‘realist’ conceits. If the British Right could be persuaded to adjourn these issues, then it would be left alone to manage the Brownite welfare state a little better.

This was the implicit bargain, and it has been a total failure. A series of ideological concessions on climate change, on diversity and inclusion, and on the devolution of power from the elected parliament, has left Britain with a raft of legislation that keeps our economy stagnant and backward.

During the 2010s this legislation, like Theresa May’s salary audits, could be sustained as an extra cost of doing business. It was another annoyance to be handled by the legal department – if you could afford one. This was the stuff of water cooler jibes. But by 2023 the laughter has died down. This legislation has started to cannibalize its host, and will ensure that the living standards of the 2010s never return. The symbol of HS2, whatever its virtues, is a potent one. Watch it inch northwards in agony, harried on every side by litigation from the pettiest of petty tyrant local authorities.

The Conservative Party’s self-styled pragmatic wing cannot ignore this any longer. Pleas for backbenchers to forego the “culture war” for quiet economic management now only ring hollow. The former keeps making the latter next to impossible.

Liz Truss’s timely intervention late last week makes her the first major British politician to recognise how inextricable these two things are. Truss led with the lowest-hanging economic fruit – shale – which is not being exploited for reasons that will one day seem like obscurantism on par with the old Victorian fear of “railway madness”. Truss also took aim at the growth of ESG regulation, which steadily chips away at firms too small to afford the costs of compliance.

However, Truss’s breach with these dogmas is still not as total as one might hope. There was no criticism of the principle of Net Zero in her speech. Absent also was any reference to mass immigration. Her failure in this area as prime minister was perhaps a fatal one. In the heady days of the mini-budget, Truss lost critical support from Suella Braverman and her circle over plans to accelerate migration from outside the EU – a policy that does not benefit the exchequer, and is only pursued out of hoary old ‘Brotherhood of Man’ romanticism. If migration really were about economic pragmatism, then what we would have is a guest worker scheme, rigorously enforced, not a pathway to citizenship. In 2023, those who want even the feeblest of economic liberalisms put themselves on a collision course with a national and global establishment. They cannot afford to alienate voters in places like Kent, Essex, and Lincolnshire – the natural social base of such a program – by repeating the tired migration cliches of the 2010s.

J. Sorel is a pseudonym.

Tags: Anti-Growth CoalitionCulture WarLiz TrussMass immigrationNet Zero

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Dinger64
Dinger64
2 years ago

The tosser!

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LaptopMaestro
LaptopMaestro
2 years ago

17 quid will get me four pints of best bitter ……..choices, choices!!

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago

Purely in the spirit of livening up a non-thread, because the article is evidently uninteresting AF to everyone, I will unapologetically do another off-territory dump here.

This is a cracking round-up of memes and links, old and new. Something for everyone, which I hope is a tad more interesting than ’50 shades of drab’ Harry;

https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/mikes-antivax-grab-bag-memes-blurbs-and-links/

Last edited 2 years ago by Mogwai
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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Wow! Thanks for the link Mogs. What a library. I’ve bookmarked it.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

YW 🙂

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
2 years ago

Spare me Prince Harry

Stand in the Park Make friends & keep sane 

Sundays 10.30am to 11.30am
Elms Field 
near Everyman Cinema & play area
Wokingham RG40 2FE

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
2 years ago

“99.9% of us on planet Earth are carrying round some form of grief, trauma or loss – the sooner we realise that, the sooner we can all get along.”

– One of whom is his own brother, with whom he can’t get along.

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HicManemus
HicManemus
2 years ago

Guess the book isn’t selling too well?

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LaptopMaestro
LaptopMaestro
2 years ago
Reply to  HicManemus

South Park got it about right.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago

What a desperately silly boy.

If he’d called his biography “Up Yours, Ma’am”, I would’ve bought that. And a few more for Christmas presents.

Last edited 2 years ago by Marcus Aurelius knew
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Martin Frost
Martin Frost
2 years ago

Are people really still interested in this drivel? A slimmed down monarchy after the death of the Queen was always on the cards. We can do without the hangers on.

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Dwain
Dwain
2 years ago

load of drivel.

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago

I’ve analysed Harry as well. My conclusion is “he’s got a screw loose.”

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LaptopMaestro
LaptopMaestro
2 years ago
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The hewitt genes?

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