Govt economic policy since the pandemic started has focussed on attempts to 1. maintain existing structures of authority in the economy (eg the furlough scheme maintains the employee-employer relationship intact, even though its basis as a private transaction has collapsed) ...
and 2. preserve existing patterns of consumer behaviour (subsidised restaurant food); get back to the office, and back to Pret. The space is wide open for an opposition party, Labour for example, to set out a response that starts from a recognition that Something Has Changed.
Despite everything they had to wade through Corbyn-McDonnell destroyed the argument for austerity and began to set out an economic model fit for the 21st century. It is radically easier to make their case now, yet Labour now seem unwilling to try. Why is that?
Is it really because they are worried about alienating socially conservative working class voters in swing seats? Or are they willing to do anything to secure a truce with a now almost universally right-wing media?
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