Blinded by ideology, the government is determined to pursue its own, self-defeating approach. Will it leave us all in the dark this winter?
Wars cannot be fought successfully by libertarians. They demand collective effort, shared sacrifice, strategies for deploying scarce economic resources and collaboration with allies. All are anathema to a libertarian like the prime minister, Liz Truss.
State initiative inviting collective effort and sacrifice is off-limits as “nannying”. Demands on the better-off and on companies enjoying extreme windfall profits to share their proper burden are vetoed as coercive and confiscatory. Even working with the foreign “other” is regarded with suspicion as a constraint on sovereignty. Put not your trust in libertarians – especially in war.
