Ed Milliband has been right to concentrate on Labour’s plans to reform the economy at the Party Conference. There is growing and longer term evidence that the British economy really is broken. The prospect of our being able to revive it in its present form – so that it can provide prosperity for even the average earner let alone the lower paid – looks bleak.
It may be possible for our current economy to successfully compete with international economies but we could probably only achieve that by cutting the living standards of the middle and the working class even further than they already have been.
