The fool in charge of the NHS
Keir Starmer is becoming interesting.
At the CBI conference, he told business leaders immigration was not the solution to skills shortages. Instead, he said that we should be training our own people...an idea that gained no traction with this or previous governments.
If Starmer continues coming up with worthwhile initiatives we might begin to think he could be a bit useful.
The Conservatives have been in power for twelve long years but have bugger all in the way of successes to show for it. But then with high-quality 'leaders' like Matt Hancock, 'Shady' Shapps, Priti Patel, Gavin Williamson and the rest of the nonentities, it's no surprise.
Sadly, this once-powerful party has achieved nothing but a precipitous decline.
When an old reactionary like the Dame starts falling in love with Keir then things look bad for Buchan
ReplyDeleteLOL, Dame.
ReplyDeleteFar better than the Dame's sum up is this. Spot on...Even before the rumoured new Swiss-style sell out to the European Union, the Conservative Party was already in deeper trouble than it knows. The game of musical chairs in Downing Street may be over for now, but the party is stuck at about 20% in most opinion polls. After twelve years of Tory rule, the only concrete achievement it can point to is that it “got Brexit done”. (In fact, even this claim barely stands up to scrutiny when you take into account the way Northern Ireland has been left in limbo).
ReplyDeleteSo, are we close to another ‘Chequers deal’ surrender, as we saw under Theresa May in 2018? The fierce denials from government ministers and Rishi Sunak in his address to the CBI this week may reassure some, but I'm far from convinced.
The appointment of Jeremy Hunt as Chancellor of the Exchequer on 14 October and the installation of Sunak as Prime Minister 10 days later represent nothing less than a coup. Any belief in a growth-driven strategy, or of encouraging the enterprise of Britain’s millions of small businesses, has died. There can be no more pretence. This government is a high tax, big state, social democrat betrayal of all that the Conservatives have ever stood for. A softening of our relationship with the bully boys of Brussels would be entirely in keeping with its current identity.