This comes from today's editorial in the Observer:
The economic conditions through which Britain is living reflect a disgraceful abdication of responsibility by a government that has consigned millions of lives to unnecessary and avoidable hardship and great anxiety about their future prospects. It is simply wrong to blame this on the economic tsunami sweeping through Europe. Clearly a break-up of the euro would hit the UK hard and add greatly to the peril we face. But that has not happened yet and might still be avoided. What is clear is that Britain confronts this risk from a position of great weakness in substantial measure because of the economic strategy being pursued by the coalition government, whose leaders shamelessly blame an event that has not occurred for their mistakes. The true problem is that the framework in which economic policy is cast is 100% wrong.
I wish they'd be a little clearer about what they think. Then I'd know whether to agree with them or not.
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This is off-topic for this particular post I know but could you do a small blog about the HMRC calling you dangerous please? It’s significant I think and deserves debate.
I’ve done several now….
It seems to me that the Observer is sitting on the fence, does it actually believe that the state has an active role to play in economic development or not? If the answer is yes then the newspaper should set out how this can be beneficial in the present dire economic circumstances. If the answer is no then it should refrain from criticism and be supportive of the economic framework. In my view there is no halfway house.
I have no doubt the Observer does believe that the state has a role to play
And that they think those who don’t agree will be elctorally punished