Matt N
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Interestingly, it appears as though Keir Starmer is taking an increasingly right-wing turn in terms of policy.
Firstly, the government recently announced the abolition of NHS England, and according to The Guardian, the government has radical plans to completely reform the civil service, cracking down on quangos and cutting jobs in the civil service, akin to Elon Musk’s actions with DOGE over in America: https://www.theguardian.com/politic...f-radical-government-proposal-to-reform-state
The government is also planning to make up to £6bn of welfare cuts, with the primary cuts coming from Personal Independence Payment (PIP), under the pretence that the benefits bill is currently burgeoning and forecast to rise to £70bn by 2030: https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-labour-divided-over-prospect-of-benefit-cuts
This is generating discontent within the Labour Party, and commentators are talking about how some of these moves are further right than Blair ever went, and how moves like the benefits cuts are further right than even George Osborne managed to go during the Tory administration.
With this in mind, could the Labour government potentially end up being a more right-wing government than some were expecting? I’ll admit to being surprised at some of the recent rhetoric coming from the government; the stuff about the civil service in particular sounds as though it could have come out of the mouth of Liz Truss, and the benefits cuts are not very traditionally Labour (even if I get the rationale behind them to an extent).
Firstly, the government recently announced the abolition of NHS England, and according to The Guardian, the government has radical plans to completely reform the civil service, cracking down on quangos and cutting jobs in the civil service, akin to Elon Musk’s actions with DOGE over in America: https://www.theguardian.com/politic...f-radical-government-proposal-to-reform-state
The government is also planning to make up to £6bn of welfare cuts, with the primary cuts coming from Personal Independence Payment (PIP), under the pretence that the benefits bill is currently burgeoning and forecast to rise to £70bn by 2030: https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-labour-divided-over-prospect-of-benefit-cuts
This is generating discontent within the Labour Party, and commentators are talking about how some of these moves are further right than Blair ever went, and how moves like the benefits cuts are further right than even George Osborne managed to go during the Tory administration.
With this in mind, could the Labour government potentially end up being a more right-wing government than some were expecting? I’ll admit to being surprised at some of the recent rhetoric coming from the government; the stuff about the civil service in particular sounds as though it could have come out of the mouth of Liz Truss, and the benefits cuts are not very traditionally Labour (even if I get the rationale behind them to an extent).