By Sam Bidwell The outlook for the UK economy doesn’t have to be so bleak. We just need to get back to basics, writes Sam Bidwell It was Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s visionary founding father, who once famously said that those who do not know history think short-term, while those who think history will always take a medium or long-term view. If Lee is right, then I am forced to conclude that there are no historians in Britain’s political class. For decades, politicians in this country have avoided tackling the structural flaws in Britain’s economy in favour of short-term, stopgap solutions. As La…