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It turns out that there are many people in the UK ready for joy JD Vance’s Gaslighting The condemnation of its European allies at the Munich Security Conference. One of the attendees likened the performance of the Vice President of the United States with supporters of the “Rangers” competitors, but the British right, which was increasingly stretched ready to take over.

With Olympian reprimanding, Olympian Vans reprimanded others to try to turn the democratic elections as if January 6 had never happened, and he called for freedom of expression when his White House prohibits correspondents who do not use the terms approved by Donald Trump. In all this while the United States plans to plan roads to sculpt the rights of minerals in Ukraine in the Molotov-Ribentrop Charter on the last day.

However, in a London Conference From the right full of faith that describes the centrality of Christian Jewish morals this week, both of them are the conservative leader Kimi Badnosh and Nigel Faraj From the reform in the UK, Vannes attacks. They agreed on Britain facing a crisis of confidence, the primary weakness rooted in progressive values ​​that have eroded freedom of expression, and depressed the rate of births and immigration that threatens the economically destructive culture and climate policies.

There are two problems in this analysis, regardless of the Bosnian failure to retreat from the betrayal of Ukraine. The first is the tone. For all Humbog Vans, not every point was wrong. Britain has not done almost enough to protect freedom of expression. You cannot wish the issue of mass immigration. But the idea of ​​the peripheral moral crisis is sweets created to serve a political agenda. Excessive progressive access is real but there are already signs of correction.

The greatest difficulty, however, is that there is a real crisis, and not only those who want to discuss it. The real economic weakness. The main confidence crisis – seen in most Western Europe – stems from the fact that the United Kingdom lost its economic compass and did not explain how to finance the lives that its citizens expect.

Britain has seen more than a decade of lameness growth, The stagnant family entered a large extentS and general spending that seems less than ever. This concerns the feeling that politics no longer works with ordinary people. These politicians who are concerned with low birth rates may worry less about the erosion of Christian Jewish ethics and more about the reason for young couples struggle to buy a house or carry children.

This deficiency in growth leaves governments struggling to finance spending. Since the UK faces the urgent necessity of significant increases in defensive spending, it faces the Treasury on the pretext that it cannot be granted. The UK’s tax burden is turning towards its highest level, but it is not enough to defend the country sufficiently while financing investment in capital and public services. The Labor Party is really looking to find discounts in spending on social welfare and harmful incentives behind a significant increase in the benefits of the disease. But this only makes you.

Mr. Kiir Starmer describes growth as his central priority. But the Labor Party faces two ways, preaching a lighter organization while accumulating tax rights and additional employment. There is little to address the productivity crisis (although raising the costs of employment may enhance automation). Investment -led growth strategy that contradicts the needs of spending and gaps between intention and delivery. It is also not clear, amid political pressure to reduce immigration, that the UK has skilled workers.

At least Starmer is thinking of growth. Badnouch and those who chant Vans appear more than the knee strings. Hanker seems to return to Osborne the economy from abolishing restrictions and free trade in a significantly changed world. Conservatives have lost their model. After they supported Britain’s exit from the European Union and curbing trade with China, they are now facing the United States’ commercial president, slapping the definitions of the allies. Many of Trump’s economic populism are seduced, although what suits the United States may not be converted.

The discussion is mostly due to an unspecified attack on the Elon Musk on the bureaucracy, although there is also confusion about the role of the state, and above all, it retracts the expensive zero policies. There are arguments for these situations, although the refusal to remove carbon is the short range. But abandoning zero “wake up” is now raised to almost the only economic strategy.

What is missing is any focus on the potential strengths of the UK, or seeing how the country should face artificial intelligence and clean energy revolutions. Manufacturing is based on services. Badnosh Even higher education, one of the few global competitive advantages in Britain, for special contempt as a place where left -wing thinking is “poisoning minds”. There is room for more than one issue in politics, but many on the right find that it is worthwhile to talk about ethical crises instead of developing a convincing growth strategy.

All political parties lack a convincing or even reasonable vision of future economic success. However, this true weakness and treatment of Britain must be the basic right task. Other important issues. But the path and bodies for prosperity should dominate the speech. One of the minister loves to notice that “you cannot do social democracy with one percent growth.” In fact, you cannot do any form of liberal democracy on the economic recession. If you are looking for the central crisis of Britain, start here.

Robert.shrimsley@ft.com