May 2023
Austerity is not just about economics, nor is growth. Neoliberal economics as the answer to everything seems to have become the default policy of the UK Conservative Party, as was evident in the past eleven years of its administration. Care, also, for the whole population - and demonstration of that care - seems to have been forgotten. At the same time, its failure to secure economic growth anyway and reduce the wealth gap was encapsulated in the recent disastrous brief administration of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng, that revealed the final, ethical and financial bankruptcy of neoliberal ideology.