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The Failure of We Know Best

Thursday, July 24, 2025 9:49

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Why Starmer is pinning his hopes on economic growth as he faces eye-watering choices in which there can be no compromise

After the end of the Cold War, leaders across the West banked the so-called “peace dividend” that came with the end of this conflict between Washington and Moscow.

Instead of funding their armies, they invested in the welfare state and public services instead.

But now the tussle over this question is something that the current prime minister is grappling with, and it is shaping up to be one of the biggest challenges for Sir Keir Starmer since he got the job last year.

As Clement Attlee became the Labour prime minister credited with creating the welfare state after the end of the Second World War, so it now falls on the shoulders of the current Labour leader to create the warfare state as Europe rearms.

Strewth – this latest political fashion for militaristic twaddle is unconvincing. It comes across as a weak distraction from endemic government cowardice and incompetence. Leaves a chap wondering about AI systems too – surely they can use one to polish up the twaddle. Apparently not.

As we know too well, UK nomenklatura still live their professional lives on the basis of We Know Best, but they clearly don’t. They don’t even try to grapple effectively with that ridiculous tangle of unaccountable ministries, agencies and NGOs we call government. Effective decision-making has been designed out, We Know Best left in.

Yet in spite of We Know Best, the UK cannot support current levels of government taxation, wasteful spending and bureaucratic obstruction amid the relentlessly expansionist nature of the public sector.

It’s not working, can’t work and Starmer is not the man to change anything worth changing. He doesn’t even understand the problem because the need to understand anything but twaddle and back-stabbing has been designed out of the political system too.

Unfortunately for We Know Best, a significant number of people know it isn’t so. The number appears to be growing.

Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-failure-of-we-know-best.html

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