Nothing is so bad that it can’t be made even worse: Welcome to Sir Keir Starmer’s Britain, a country with no hope and even less honour.

The prognosis for Britain under Labour is bleak: mass destruction and relentless decline, spiced with class and generational warfare, justified by “equality”, “morality” and “international law”.

This is what perpetual pessimist Allister Heath writes in The Telegraph.

Almost everything that is still good, or at least working, in this country is being singled out for destruction, and much of what has already been destroyed is being smashed further.

We seem to be facing a tragic future, characterised by poverty, sadness, low expectations, welfareism, pacifism, social strife and irrelevance.

After 100 days with Starmer in the driver’s seat, the only question is: How much can he manage to destroy in another 1,700 days?

Britain is already experiencing that the country is moving slowly but surely towards a fiscal crisis. Both private and public debt are likely to skyrocket. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’ tax plan is imploding in the face of reality.

Scaring foreign and British investors out of the country with their fortunes will result in huge losses of tax revenue. We’ve seen the same in California, and here in Norway.

The UK is expected to lose 17 per cent of its pound millionaires, a higher proportion than in any other country in the world. Like the Norwegian government, Labour is now considering introducing an exit tax.

But this will make it even less attractive to invest in British business and pay British taxes. Therefore, this is economic suicide in the short term.

So, as always, plans to fleece the rich end up with the working and middle classes footing the bill. Another option is to pass the bill to the few children and the almost non-existent grandchildren, by taking out massive government loans.

Labour has a sick attitude to migration, says Heath. They are forcing wealthy and productive investors to flee the country, replacing them with uneducated illiterates and criminal gangsters from the third world.

Reeves needs a new plan.

Reeves is now likely to focus on fleecing small investors and those with decent pensions, increasing capital gains tax, restricting the tax-free lump sum and extending inheritance tax. She may also want to crack down on employers’ national insurance contributions.

Labour are socialists, and socialism is their only goal. Like most socialists, they don’t give a damn about “ordinary people”. This charade has been exposed too many times, including by our own government.

Private schools must be crushed, everyone must become equally stupid. Academia must also be destroyed for Labour to be satisfied.

British universities are internationally seen as less woke than their US rivals, and yet Starmer’s team is ditching the Tory government’s free speech protections.

The housing market is a disaster and Starmer’s war on landlords will only exacerbate the crisis. Something similar is happening here in Norway, which is why rents are soaring.

At the same time, illegal migrants are living in luxury hotels and Brits who protest on social media are thrown in jail.

Starmer is also attacking the labour market.

Our semi-flexible labour market has saved us from disaster, but the Employment Rights Bill will make it riskier to recruit new, untested workers.

This will, of course, make it harder for young people to enter the labour market. The risk for companies is too great.

Otherwise, the development is well known for large parts of Western Europe, including Norway. Migration is rising, energy prices are rising, prices are rising, purchasing power is declining and the state apparatus is getting fatter and fatter.

The British are experiencing a form of rationing reminiscent of wartime. The war today is not against the Nazis, but against the alleged climate crisis.

The UK has suffered greatly from the rationing of developable land and all forms of infrastructure in recent years; we will soon be crippled by an equally unnecessary rationing of petrol cars, of energy, even of holidays, by a government that believes that being green means reducing consumption by impoverishing the masses.

All of this is moving the UK towards insolvency. Health spending will explode from 7.6 to 14.5 per cent of GDP, driven by an ageing population, and state pensions will rise from 5.2 to 7.9 per cent.

Interest rates alone on government debt, which currently cost 2.8 per cent of GDP, will rise to 11.3 per cent. Mass immigration will cause the population to increase to 82 million, while the economy goes in the opposite direction.

This will lead to a national debt of between 274 and 324 per cent of GDP within 50 years, turning the UK into a Venezuela-on-Thames.

Tax levels will explode, purchasing power will erode and the British will wake up in a poverty-stricken country. Growth will disappear and it will be difficult or impossible to find a way out of the vicious circle.

The welfare state will be history, and healthcare will be reserved for the wealthy few who can still afford it.

If you’re going to save Britain, start the rescue operation now, says Heath. We need to privatise the failing NHS, embrace free markets, build nuclear power stations, explore for oil and gas and ditch the renewables madness that doesn’t work.

In addition, stop all illegal migration, repatriate millions of those who have already arrived, and drastically reduce legal migration to be possible only for high-skilled, high-income foreigners.

Millions of working age Brits are out of work, they need to get a job and support themselves. The state needs to be significantly shrunk, taxes cut and private investors encouraged, not fleeced.

But the Labour government is doing the exact opposite, and the price for the British people will be high.

The Tories are not innocent in this development, after all, they ran the country for 14 years. Therefore, the two remaining leadership candidates, Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick, should show that they understand the gravity of the situation.

Otherwise, the future looks bleak. “Our country deserves better than this descent into impoverished mediocrity,” Heath concludes.

Britain needs a new Margaret Thatcher, someone who can really cut through. Unfortunately, who will help us Norwegians is harder to say.