DOMINIC LAWSON: Starmer's Britain is now government OF the public sector, BY the public sector and FOR the public sector By Dominic Lawson for the Daily Mail Published: 21:03 EST, 3 November 2024 | Updated: 21:03 EST, 3 November 2024 e-mail View comments As tomorrow is the day of perhaps the most momentous election in modern American history, it's time to recall the immortal words of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: 'Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.' But how does that match up to our own recent electoral process, which concluded with an overwhelming victory, in parliamentary terms, for the Labour Party? We now know the answer. Sir Keir Starmer 's administration is a government of the public sector, by the public sector, for the public sector.
Actually, we discovered this at the start, when they awarded stonking pay increases to public sector workers, without a single efficiency condition, while funding that (in part) by removing the winter fuel payment from all old people except those on pension credit. Sir Keir Starmer has used the phrase 'hard choices' only to justify his own voluntary decisions But it was last week's Budget which drove home the point to anyone not paying attention. Rachel Reeves' £40 billion tax increases were directed with ruthless precision onto businesses in the private sector (already hit by Angela Rayner's labour 'reforms', which, even on the Government's own impact assessment, will 'dispr.
