The U-Turn as Art Form
Until now, the Starmer-Reeve style has been to face down – and double-down on – all demands for policy U-turns. It’s been more than a style, it’s been their carefully-crafted, McSweeney-minted modus operandi: Mr Tough Guy who’ll see everyone off by sheer force of political will. Don’t like it, O weak-kneed Cabinet colleague? Well, tough titty because you’ll be defending it on the Sunday TV politics shows, and here are your lines-to-take. You, too, O snowflake Labour MP? It’s backbench obscurity for you, or maybe the loss of the Whip. Everything becomes a virility test for everyone on the government benches.
Looks like Winter Fuel Allowance might just have been a step too far, though – we can see why – and there are plenty of other unpopular policies in the same line of country. It’ll be interesting to see how the spin-doctory stuff is handled.
Of course, covering for U-turns and reverse-ferret operations is meat and drink for the practitioners of the Dark Arts. As Kipling said to Asquith in WW1, you set the policy, I’ll find the words. You sense they actually relish the intellectual challenge involved, just as did Syme in 1984. (McSweeney is a bit more of an O’Brien character, if not the full Bad Al Campbell.)
However. Their cunning wheeze for the WFA reversal seems to be: we can, and indeed should do it now – because the economy is in better shape. Thanks to us and our tough decisions!!! See what we did there? Oh, how clever these spinners are.
But this comes out on the day both inflation and government borrowing turn out to be “higher than forecast”, and quite noticeably, too (just how stupid are these forecasters?). Some *inconsistency* there?
Don’t worry: the masters of Doublethink will be up to the challenge! Of that we may be sure.
OS
Source: http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2025/05/the-u-turn-as-art-form.html
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