Stumbling and Mumbling

Thatcherism is dead. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet its maker. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil and joined the bleedin' choir invisible. That seems to be the obvious inference to draw from Penny Mordaunt's...

A recent Yougov poll found that most people think that people out of work should not be able to afford smartphones, takeaways, visits to the pub or pets. This is not just evidence of their mean-spiritedness, but also of their anti-capitalist attitudes...

One of the tricks of bourgeois politics is to blame workers for the systemic failures of capitalism. So it is with the claim that there's a problem with increasing numbers of over-50s being out of the workforce. The Guardian, for example, says:
This is placing strain on the labour market, with many employers struggling to recruit, and is part of the reason for high inflation, the Bank of England has said....

Whatever happened to the right's faith in market forces? I ask because of their complaints about "woke capitalism" after Coutts refused Nigel Farage's custom.
Farage says:
I find it extraordinary that in modern corporate Britain, being seen to be politically correct matters more than making profits....