If anyone is able to find the relevant audio of this morning’s Today programme that would be much appreciated.
I saw that too, along with interviews from various people who clearly has no idea what they were talking about.
Hardly anyone I know who voted for Brexit was able to name our MEPs or to highlight a specific area of legislation that they felt could be improved / should be changed.
As a nation we have a proud tradition of general ignorance, blaming anything and everything remotely unpopular on the EU while utterly failing to engage and understand it.
This is what I was going to say - you won’t find what you don’t test for, and these days next to no one outside specialist healthcare settings will be testing.
Best we can hope for these days is that sewage monitoring is still in place.
“Bridget Phillipson, the shadow education secretary, said the crisis stemmed from the Conservatives’ decision in 2010 to axe the Building Schools for the Future programme – the investment strategy introduced under Tony Blair – and what she described as repeated raids on education capital budgets.
“Using already-allocated money to just make safe school buildings with Raac is funnelling money away from other necessary work to upgrade schools and remove dangerous asbestos, storing up problems for the future,” she said.”
From here.
Brexit is such easy pickings for “leopards ate my face” content.
As for Thomas, not sure what to make of him. He seems to recognise the folly of voting for Brexit, but it’s all come a little too late - and only when there was a direct impact on him.
A material with a 30-odd year shelf life was used on buildings 30-odd years ago. Some time in the last ten years or so there ought to have been a plan in place.
If I recall correctly the money to do that kind of work was cut… in 2010.
The Conservative Party could’ve just, you know, sorted the concrete issues on a rolling basis.
At the time of the pandemic lockdowns, working on the schools when they were part-closed anyway might have been an optimum solution with the added bonus of keeping folks in business.
The attack ad is easy to put together because unfortunately the current Conservative Party provide such easy source material to work with.
Where is Mr Sunak just now anyway?
I don't know.
There are definitely some right wing elements in the Conservative Party who think he hasn't gone far (been radically right wing) enough in dealing with small boat immigration, inflation, economic growth, NHS waiting lists and the national debt; whether they think there is someone else waiting in the wings who can be more effective in the regard is unknown to me.
Over the summer the impression I have got from coverage of him and his team is desperation; they seem to be flailing around looking for wedge issues (currently the "war on the motorist" nonsense seems to be in vogue, but they rotate between "small boats", "net zero" and the like) while trying to distract from the failure to attain the five pledges and all the other things that are going wrong for everyday normal people - the "cost of living crisis".
The trouble with over a decade of failing to raise pay in the public sector in line with inflation is that eventually you run out of other people’s free labour.
As for this bit: “NHS England and ministers have both said strikes by doctors are a factor in the rising number of people waiting for treatment.”
The waiting list began to slide in around 2011-2012 and progressively grew until 2020 when it then began to skyrocket. The problems predate the current strike action.
I sometimes wonder if there isn’t an element of doing things this way with the knowledge and expectation that others will expend energy and resources challenging it; win or lose, it might just prove to be an effective, devious and deliberate tactic for wearing people down.
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