Keir Starmer and the "growth mantra"
On 23 February, Keir Starmer set out his dream of leading a migrant-bashing, law-and-order government whose first aim is to have “the fastest growing economy in the G7”. In place of detail there is wonkish drivel. “Cross cutting-mission boards” “working across silos” with “flexible budget horizons” will “end sticking plaster politics”. But mission number 1, as with Truss, Sunak and every other bourgeois politician, is to deliver growth. Yet undifferentiated GDP growth can only deepen the ecological crisis. GDP growth involves increased production, which in turn means increased material...