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Are Labour Unlucky (or are they just rubbish)?

2025-10-05 Education
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Systemic Blindness: Why Labour's Failure Is a Symptom of Elite Economic Misdiagnosis

Understand why the current UK government is collapsing in popularity and how this systemic economic blindness creates vast opportunities for genuinely new political ideas to win.

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  • Evaluate the claim that the Labour government is merely "unlucky" due to inherited issues.
  • Identify the failure to address wealth distribution as the root cause of economic malaise across Western political parties.
  • Recognize the collapse of established intellectual authority as a catalyst for massive political opportunity.
  • Grasp the urgent need for policy focused on reclaiming wealth lost from government and ordinary people.

This analysis argues that Labour's rapid unpopularity is not bad luck but a predictable outcome of systemic failure by the entire Western intellectual class to recognize or address rapidly increasing wealth inequality since 2020. Understanding this fundamental misdiagnosis—comparing it to ignoring cancer—is critical for steering political outcomes away from far-right extremism.

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Is the Labour government failing to change anything because of bad choices – or because the economic situation makes them powerless to act? 👕 TAX WEALTH NOT WORK t-shirt available here: https://shop.garyseconomics.org/ –––––––– 00:00 Intro 01:13 Labour just unlucky? 04:22 Could they have fixed it? 06:50 Are they incompetent? 08:30 The centre is failing globally 11:14 They don’t understand economics 13:58 The real problem 18:00 Demand for change is unstoppable 19:20 Collapse of the Roman Empire 20:14 What new idea will win? 25:35 Fascism and poverty 26:15 What do you do? 28:18 My message to the intellectual class 30:23 What is really happening ––––––––––– MAKE A DONATION TO OUR CAMPAIGN – https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gs9Nl1L6eqWbUydjO00 SUPPORT US ON PATREON – https://patreon.com/garyseconomics JOIN GARY'S MAILING LIST – https://subscribepage.io/garyseconomics GET THE TRADING GAME – https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/455809/the-trading-game-by-stevenson-gary/9781802062731 ––––––––––– Follow Gary on other channels: LINKEDIN – https://www.linkedin.com/company/garyseconomics SPOTIFY – https://open.spotify.com/show/2807p01KIe4RRFjRTB5o25 INSTAGRAM – https://www.instagram.com/garyseconomics TIKTOK – https://www.tiktok.com/@garyseconomics BLUESKY – https://bsky.app/profile/garyseconomics.bsky.social X – https://twitter.com/garyseconomics FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/garyseconomics DISCORD – https://discord.gg/vqME6WsPd7 WEBSITE – https://www.garyseconomics.org

Top Comments (10)

@connorcmusician 2025-10-05

I still find it weird you call it a mistake, like they accidentally forgot to tax the people that fund them

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@davidbateleur8357 2025-10-05

When u realise all of these parties are not making mistakes... ITS BY DESIGN These governments dont work for us, they work for the ruling class.

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@CitizenBrookes 2025-10-05

I don’t think it’s an intellectual blind spot for Labour. In 2017 & 2019 wealth taxes and inequality were at the core of their manifestos. Starmer even said those ideas were ‘foundational’ to his leadership. They know this is popular and necessary. But Labour Together, Starmer’s faction, deliberately purged left wing pledges and people - while moving away from trade union funding to over 50% of party income from big business & wealthy individuals. They made conscious, ideologically driven choices to join the Tory side of the class war. Not bad luck or uselessness - active elitism.

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@Mark_Something-Ermm-Yeah 2025-10-05

It is good to see someone not blaming the fall in living standards on immigrants and people with disabilities.

678 87 replies
@JV-ks3eb 2025-10-05

We need to stop lobbying...... Wealthy corporations and individuals determine what policies will be behind closed doors. Its disgusting.

677 37 replies
@mjc01 2025-10-05

They are not failing. They are obeying their backers.

651 15 replies
@bjamoliver 2025-10-05

Week on week, thank you for your perseverance and dedication, Gary. Let’s keep the momentum going

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@Davethehedgehog 2025-10-05

If everybody is doing the same thing it’s not a mistake, it’s orchestrated

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@chunt374 2025-10-06

I get the feeling everyone in government knows full well what they are doing and that they either don't care or worse are doing it on purpose to make their own wealth greater at the expense of the general public

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@bilsbum 2025-10-06

Good luck Gary. I support you 100%. There are people with limitless amounts of money that will try and stop you from succeeding, but we need to stand together.

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