
Good morning. As chancellor(财政大臣) John Healey delivered the first budget of the Burnham government yesterday afternoon, the now-familiar phrasings(措辞,说法) were all in there: “breathing space(喘息空间,缓冲余地)” for households, “growth in every postcode,” and setting the foundations for a “radical rewiring of the state(国家的彻底重构).”
早上好。昨天下午,财政大臣约翰·希利提交了伯纳姆政府的首份预算案,那些如今已耳熟能详的措辞悉数登场:为家庭提供“喘息空间”、“让每个邮编区域都实现增长”,以及为“国家的彻底重构”奠定基础。
But political ambition met economic reality, as the chancellor hammered home the scale of damage inflicted on the public finances by the war in the Middle East.(但政治雄心撞上了经济现实,因为财政大臣反复强调中东战争对公共财政造成的破坏规模。)
但政治雄心撞上了经济现实——财政大臣反复强调中东战争对公共财政造成的破坏规模。
Just over 100 days into Andy Burnham’s premiership, this was not the all-guns-blazing transformative change of a government that styled itself as the most radical since Margaret Thatcher, but a confetti of micro-measures in a budget so quiet it at times barely whispered.(安迪·伯纳姆就任首相刚过100天,这份预算案并非一个自称撒切尔以来最激进政府的那种火力全开的变革,而是一堆细碎微措施拼成的预算,安静得有时几乎听不见声音。) Which is just what the City ordered(金融城所乐见的), rewarding Burnham and Healey with a day of falling bond yields(债券收益率). But was this really the first step in kicking 40 years of neoliberalism into touch(把40年新自由主义踢出局)?
安迪·伯纳姆就任首相刚过100天,这份预算案并非一个自称撒切尔以来最激进政府的那种火力全开的变革,而是一堆细碎微措施拼成的预算,安静得有时几乎听不见声音。而这正是金融城所乐见的,伯纳姆和希利因此收获了债券收益率下跌的一天。但这真的是把40年新自由主义踢出局的第一步吗?
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In depth: A budget shaped by war and rising borrowing costs
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