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We don’t, but in the game of political Play Your Cards Right, it’s way more probable the next lot have higher standards than the current administration.

• sph 3y ago
  That's a very optimistic view of government I don't really agree with, nor has any historical basis whatsoever. For some inexplicable reason, most people believe this to be the case. "Surely whoever comes next can't be worse than their predecessor, right? Right?"
  • jen20 3y ago
    This is especially naive given that the problems with the Horizon system started in 1999, when the Labour Party was in power, and extended to the end of the coalition government, in which a Liberal Democrat was postal minister and a Conservative was Prime Minister. Part of the problem is that MPs are on average too old, too stupid, or too reactive to actually understand technology, but another part is that they are incapable almost entirely of engaging with a deep problem if it doesn’t have a soundbite for the Today show. “The Thick of It” was more of a documentary than many realise.
    • sph 3y ago
      > Part of the problem is that MPs are on average too old, too stupid, or too reactive Politicians are the PE teachers in that old joke. If they had a minimum of competence in anything they do, they would have gotten a serious and honest job like everyone else.
      • jen20 3y ago
        Indeed. Most MPs couldn’t even teach geography as a sideline.