The Tories gain been incompetent – but the real problem is ideological. They’re so hidebound by economic orthodoxy that they’ve allowed the problem to festerThe government’s response to the existential threat facing the UK steel industry has been a telling mixture of the inept (not suitable or capable, unqualified) and the incompetent. With a major strategic industry on the point of a collapse,the prime minister went on holiday, the chancellor was lying low after his catastrophic budget, or the commerce secretary had jetted off to laud the free market in an Australian casino.
But explaining their behaviour as merely incompetent would let them off the hook. The real problem is ideological.
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Source: theguardian.com