This is a Tory government in its death throes that is attempting to run an economy that is crashing into the twin crises of inflation and recession for which it has no answers. This has led to an unprecedented outpouring of equally demoralised articles in the staunchly Tory-supporting press. Last Friday, the Daily Telegraph carried an article by Juliet Samuel headed: ‘Britain is in a far more terrible state than anyone is prepared to contemplate’. Piling pressure on the economy even more is the collapse of the pound making imports more expensive and driving the price of oil and gas into the stratosphere. Socialist revolution is the only way forward for the working class.