I wasn’t referring to you directly. I appreciate you maybe busy before Xmas and haven’t had time to follow the news, but you can post a reply based on assumption? If you haven’t had time to read the news, why comment? It could be viewed that your response was based on perception rather than in response.
Also, I don’t know why you have to be so defensive, I never suggested anyone was embarrassed and why should you be.
You just further support my point. You just don’t have the ability to reflect on the situation or align it with international trend. Blame it on the Americans, when British banks were open to the same exposure and were not being regulated by the Government. Brexit being a Tory project…even if it was a Tory project, why were they re-elected into power on the back of that mandate? Maybe if Labour had a mandate the country believed in, they would have been in power and we wouldn’t be discussing this.
The truth is, is that in both scenarios, the whole world suffered, and irrespective of parties, even with hindsight, it would be hard to suggest what could have been done better and whether the opposition could have made a better job of it, the same with Covid. However, we will never know.
Look, I am really trying to be diplomatic here, I am not looking to shut down Labour/Starmer. I appreciate that they have inherited a shit show in terms of Finances, Infrastructure, and at a time where society is more fractious. I really want them to succeed and make great decisions that improve the Country and its peoples welfare. However, In order for that to happen, they need to be held to account (in a reasonable manor) and by being called out on certain issues. By attempting to justify everything that goes wrong by way of blaming the previous incumbent of mismanagement, can only last so long. Whether you are a Labour or Tory voter, the longer you fail to acknowledge their faults, then the longer it will take to put them right.
Just because you and your missus worked in the school system means fuck all about your knowledge about the systemic and long term funding and policy related issues. That requires actually paying attention to the overall system.
What even heads deal with differ vastly from school to school. Never mind catchment areas or even regions.
I have no problem with governments being called to account. It’s essential for a functioning democracy.
However what we see, time and again, is a partisan press failing to hold the Tories to account, and dragging Labour of the coals for stuff they are barely responsible for.
I’d like the press to remember that they have a role in holding politicians to account when the Tories are in power, and not just when Labour have the reins.
I completely agree. In terms of holding Governments to account.
In regards to the media… I will be honest in saying that with the media sources I use, I do not see the level of RW bias this forum portrays them to be. However, it is an issue raised often on here and therefore I have tried to assess these articles more reflectively.
For me, it is important for voters to hold the Government/Shadow Government to account. However, in order to do so, people need to stop being blinded by their own parties short comings, continually laying the blame on the other party and on a situation they inherited.
In my opinion, by doing this people are already trying to justify their failure.
At the same time people and the press should be aware that current choices and current issues could well be driven by politicsl choices made in the past.
Much of the press irrespective of what side they are on choose not to report that.
Its called politicking but there’s a very strong whiff of dishonesty running right through it.
"Paul Dales, chief economist at Capital Economics, said there was “no doubt that some business and households put spending and investment on hold around the Budget”. But he said it was “too soon to see any genuine effect of Labour policies”.
He said it would be a matter of time before the drag from higher interest rates gave way to a boost from lower rates but he expected to see an improvement in the second half of next year.
Simon French, chief economist at Panmure Liberum said the revised figures were consistent “with a lot of other indicators we’ve seen since the July general election that’ve shown a loss of momentum in the economy”.
He said there was a question over whether this was a typical slowdown as seen after previous general elections which later picked up or “whether this is something more problematic teeing up a recession next year”."
These two posts are good summary of the situation. Both contain a part of truth. Your rhetorical question on the other hand is horribly one-sided, and thus, wrong.
I would strongly urge everyone to read this, from 2019.
Some highlights…
The water industry in England has been transformed. It’s easy to forget how bad things were. After decades of government underinvestment, water quality was poor, rivers were polluted, and our beaches badly affected by sewage.
Investment through privatisation reduced pollution and delivered, in a remarkably short time, cleaner, better quality waters. Access to private capital markets and the ability to borrow transformed how the water sector delivered services through a restructure of the industry and regulated oversight. Investment almost doubled yet customer bills were lower.
Water quality has improved, pollution is down and leakage came down by a third. Relying on the tax payer for investment would not have enabled these spending commitments, due to demands on the public purse.
All Tories are cunts, and Thatcher is their odious queen.
This is rather worrying. The ONS can’t get reliable data from the Labour Force Survey:
I used to have quite a bit of contact with the ONS guys, they are very professional, but this sounds like the methods used for data collection on the ground aren’t working. This is important, because good policy needs good data. They can pull raw stats from tax and benefit data, but it doesn’t tell them why people are in the position that they are.
I’m not sure why the response is so low. Distrust of government officials?
We get ONS guys doing surveys at work on a regular basis, but the problem is they often turn up during the day, when most people are at work, so often don’t get any responses.
We also have the question in regards to security, allowing people in to roam around the building. so they need to make contact via the intercom to confirm who is and is not in at the time. What they often end up doing for us, is leaving a letter for those they want to contact which we then post to the mailbox. If tenants ignore the letter that is their choice.
