The most disturbing part of Kwasi Kwarteng’s interview? His threat to return 💬 'After his ever-so-deep reflection period, Kwarteng may come back to cock things up all over again, having learned nothing.' 🔵 Ian Dunt for ipaperviews
overnight. The former chancellor delivered a masterclass in how to extricate yourself from blame. For the untrained amateur observer, it might very much look like his Budget destabilised the British economy, reduced our national status, gave the markets the whip hand over government policy and caused eye-watering pain to millions of households. But how naive you are. In fact, it was the prime minister. He was just following orders.
Could the current administration blame him for what happened? Certainly not. How preposterous. That would involve an acceptance of the objective truth of causation. “You talk about blame,” he said. “The only thing they could possibly blame us for is the interest rates, and interests rates have come down and the gilt rates have come down.”
Kwarteng has extended the exculpatory distance. He now simply felt sorry for people who were suffering, albeit from an event which seemingly had nothing to do with him. His statement was equivalent to saying that he still contained the capacity for human empathy. He might as well have been expressing an opinion about an Oxfam advert.
If we lived in a decent political climate, Kwarteng’s failures would be noticeable only as a story of individual human weakness. But we do not. They are, in fact, entirely par for the course. In the last few weeks alone. The former resigned for a security breach then regained her job days later, during which time she presumably also took “a bit of time off to reflect”.
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