Excuses, Excuses, Excuses

[WelshMage]

At 61years of age I've seen governments come and go and I have no loyalty to any particular Party. But in my view, this is the worst government I have ever seen. You cannot tax and spend your way to economic prosperity; it's been tried many times and always fails. I work in government and we are now borrowing a silly amount of money each month just to service the debt we're already in. We're heading for an inevitable crash. I feel so sorry for youngsters today.

It's like us trading a strategy that is consistently losing and all we do is chase our losses. The number one rule is don't chase losses!!

[jamesedwards]

The whole country needs a big reset.

I'm hoping Reform actually get in and are able to force through significant long term changes on how budgets are spent. I'm sick to death of taxpayers money being spaffed away on woke projects.

There's a roundabout near where I live that has just been upgraded to a new-style 'dutch' roundabout that gives priority to pedestrians and cyclists over cars. It's sited between the motorway and industrial estate where these is virtually zero non-motor transport. It took 6 months to build causing road closures and gridlock on lorry diversion routes. £2.5m cost. A joke!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcM-igD ... sNewswatch

[sionascaig]

Not sure the Doctor at the Reform conference who is claiming the Royals cancer is caused by Covid vaccine's will help though

[jamesedwards]

Not sure the Doctor at the Reform conference who is claiming the Royals cancer is caused by Covid vaccine's will help though

No, this is the challenge. Farage might have the guts to initiate significant change, but how does he get the quality to execute it?

[firlandsfarm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcM-igD ... sNewswatch

used to have to pass through Hemel Hampstead for business and had to negotiate the 'Magic Roundabout'. For those not familiar with it it's a two way roundabout ... yep, two way with a mini roundabout at each entry/exit point!

HemelHampsteadMagicRoundabout.jpg

So if you approached at junction 6 and wanted to exit at junction 5 you didn't turn left as usual and go all the way round, you turned right and exited at the next junction! It's very confusing the first time and my experience was that many couldn't reconcile how it worked.

I believe there is one in Swindon as well.

[sionascaig]

No, this is the challenge. Farage might have the guts to initiate significant change, but how does he get the quality to execute it?

We hear about the politicians & councillors that have switched from Tories to Reform but there must be a lot of support staff too. Maybe some sensible heads in that lot.

But its an interesting point you make about quality...

I think a lot of the problems are caused by a frankly useless civil service (although I'm generalising a bit).

Just look at Home office backlogs for immigration / asylum etc etc etc..

The Politian put in "charge" for the 6 months they last in post ends up getting all the blame for failure when a lot of the blame lies within that organisation & failure after failure to deliver a good service never mind adapt to change.

Maybe the Minister in charge should hold the civil service to account rather than defend what is at times appalling failure.

[ForFolksSake]

No, this is the challenge. Farage might have the guts to initiate significant change, but how does he get the quality to execute it?

We hear about the politicians & councillors that have switched from Tories to Reform but there must be a lot of support staff too. Maybe some sensible heads in that lot.

But its an interesting point you make about quality...

I think a lot of the problems are caused by a frankly useless civil service (although I'm generalising a bit).

Just look at Home office backlogs for immigration / asylum etc etc etc..

The Politian put in "charge" for the 6 months they last in post ends up getting all the blame for failure when a lot of the blame lies within that organisation & failure after failure to deliver a good service never mind adapt to change.

Maybe the Minister in charge should hold the civil service to account rather than defend what is at times appalling failure.

I think a lot of the problems are caused by a frankly useless civil service (although I'm generalising a bit).

Just look at Home office backlogs for immigration / asylum etc etc etc..

That explains it then

.... the constant stream of asylum seekers is keeping a load of people in jobs that the taxpayer is having to pay for - where's the incentive

YCMIU

[sionascaig]

That explains it then

.... the constant stream of asylum seekers is keeping a load of people in jobs that the taxpayer is having to pay for

YCMIU

The point is the backlog is not "new" and the fact it takes years to process cases points to operational failure at ridiculous cost.

There are even folk that want to return to own country been stuck in the system for years.

It is very hard to understand why, given the costs involved to keep migrants in the system, more isn't spent processing them in a timely manner.

We should be creating "more" jobs to process them & get them out the system !