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Just another hollow promise from a prime minster and administration that are staring electoral defeat in a years time. The trend at the moment is to announce '
by Lolaccount 4y ago
Just another hollow promise from a prime minster and administration that are staring electoral defeat in a years time.
The trend at the moment is to announce 'reviews' that capture headlines while doing absolutely nothing about the actual problems. When this doesn't work, get back to fighting the culture wars.
For example, we've had multiple reviews, and actual announcements on the legal side, which replicate already existing powers. It's a joke.
It's cliche to say that the current administration is the worst we've ever seen ... but the last decade has demonstrated that cliche as fact in the UK's case.
- TheOtherHobbes 4y agoThe UK has had government-by-press-release for decades now. But with this administration empty spin, emotive dog whistling and grandstanding, and relentless reality denial have completely replaced substance.
- oldfashioned1 4y agoSounds like humble-bragging by Sunak. "Guys, be more like me and be better at Math" In fact Sunak is 99% all about posturing. We don't know what real things he has accomplished, as he was not voted into the PM role, but "positioned"
- bilvar 4y agoNobody in Britain ever gets voted for the PM role.
- oldfashioned1 4y agoNot for at least 6 months. They get positioned now
- dmje 4y agoThis. The last decade has been absolutely devastating to the UK. We were actually getting somewhere before that - good investment in infrastructure, in education, long term thinking about all the things that require long term thinking. And then the Daily Mail oldies kick in with Brexit b/s, Truss, Sunak. And now we're a dysfunctional and mostly irrelevant backwater. Sad times.
- jemmyw 4y agoI never understood why Miliband didn't win the 2015 election. The Tories were presiding over some pretty bad austerity politics and LD lost their support base by going into coalition. Plus Miliband seemed like a really decent chap, known face from the previous Labour government but not tarnished. I had left the UK by then so I wasn't paying much attention to what went on, but when I did pay more attention when Brexit was rearing its head Cameron seemed like such a wanky toff it's hard to understand how his govt had not only got back in but were in a better position.
- Lastodon 4y agoFrom my memory what mainly lost his backing from the general public was the horrendous antics of Dianne Abbot and her place at the front bench of the labour government. Everything that woman said and did leeched coherence and unity from the shadow government.
- pjc50 4y agoSuch as? (Abbot is the most maligned person in UK politics; I believe someone did a survey of all hate mail (or email?) sent to the House of Commons, and found that a whole third of it was for her alone. I would simply not trust media-informed views of her, unfortunately)
- Lolaccount 3y agoI'm not a fan of Abbot, but it's ridiculous to pin what happened on one person. Get a grip.
- smcl 4y agoI too was looking on from abroad, the only things that reached me were that Miliband was a little bit goofy and that he wan't the favoured candidate by the Murdoch papers (where he took an absolute hammering, I think we all saw the picture of him eating a bacon roll)
- jemmyw 4y ago
- prox 4y agoIt’s tackling problems by committee which has never worked. You need structural boots on the ground presence to commit any changes, and campaigns to inform about changes, and examples: people and situations that show what can be done by the proposed changes. Like you say, a review is a hollow thing.
- Lastodon 4y agoOnly a year? I thought they were going to deathgrip power until 2025