Martin Wolf is one of the most followed and respected columnists of the Financial Times. You may agree (or disagree) with his analysis, share (or disagree) his reasoning, but he is a qualified and influential person, on this side and the other side of the Atlantic, which is no small feat. His latest article on the state of the art in the UK is conclusive, he is more than irritated. The title anticipates the following, it reads: “Liz Truss’s Growth Plan Is Just A Magic Potion”. And he continues: “Liz Truss has stepped on the scales and she doesn’t give the right weight. Not even his finance minister. It took only a week of unnecessary and harmful turmoil to prove it. The only kind of leader more dangerous than the rogue that the UK has had in recent years, Boris Johnson is the fanatic it has now ”… to conclude:“ these people are crazy, bad and dangerous. They have to go”.
Martin Lupo It is not characterized by big words or by real disqualifications, without nuances. With Boris and Liz the bars don’t stop: “rogue, fanatic, crazy, bad, dangerous …” And maybe she’s right, that these people who British conservatives (and some others) like so much are like that, silly adventurers They want reality to bend to their will.
The case of Boris Johnson, a respectable and notorious liar, is described; a surplus that gives the same eight to eighty. He sponsored Brexit, though it might indicate otherwise, fired from one serious newspaper for cheating and well paid in another for the same. The case of his successor is not so pictorial, it is a weather vane that changes his mind every now and then and has become prime minister for the accumulation of nonsense.
And installed in office, hand in hand with his close friend and finance minister, as generous and cultured as Boris, he dictated a growth plan that crashed with reality from the very first minute. They rectify when they perceive the abyss and are aware that a good number of MPs from their bench will leave them lying down. But rectification and the excuse “we listened” did not lead the moderate Wolf to avoid adjectives (perhaps nouns) as dense as the one that endorsed them in Financial Times.
The magic potions of the left and right, or the mantras that by lowering taxes the economy grows and collects more, or that by controlling prices (e.g. rents) houses will cost less to tenants are just potions, voodoo economy that it only distributes misery and recession.
Martin Wolf’s big words are well deservedthey are not interjections, nor insults or insults, but a description of dangerous people who should be placed in the corner that corresponds to them.
