Real challenge facing the PDs

NOW that the PDs have chosen a new leader, I’d like to offer them some dispassionate advice on their options.

They exist to bring the Thatcherite/Reaganite neo-liberal revolution to this country. In a nutshell, this means increasing the share of wealth derived from profits and decreasing the share paid out in wages.

The tricky bit is that you have to combine this attack on wages with puritanical guff about rewarding hard work instead of rewarding idleness, which is of course the exact opposite of what neo-liberal policies actually do.

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