It's a good piece but he makes a major error. He suggests all this has happened over the last fourteen years.
Both Labour and Tory governments share responsibility this country's precipitous decline over the last few decades.
We have lost our way in a fast-changing world.
You can read it LINK
Weak leadership, poor economic management and Brexit have dragged Britain out of the top 10 countries in a global index on good government.
ReplyDeletehttps://chandlergovernmentindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2024-Chandler-Good-Government-Index-Report.pdf
Rubbish leadership! Rishi Sunak's Election announcements have him blurting out policy on the hoof and then expecting his MPs to fill in the enormous gaps where sound judgement and planning ought to have been. Sunak is finished after the Election. And by extension so are the Tories.
DeleteThat's why we should give Reform a chance
DeleteTheir de-facto leader can't even be bothered. Nigel Farage has announced that he will not be standing or leading the Reform party in the general election.
DeleteBritain has declined as it chose finance over industry, austerity over investment, and a closed economy over openness to the world.
ReplyDeleteWe have a real problem in the sense that the only way to really durably raise productivity growth for this country is for investments to pick up. But the last Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, signalled a fresh period of austerity is on the way to plug the hole in the nation’s finances. This could be bad news for infrastructure schemes and long-term for productivity.
DeleteBeing an entrepreneur in this country is like running through mud
Delete22:14 when Lab gets in there won't be an economy to close. Vote Reform
DeleteBrexit continues to slowly drag our economy down, we could do with that 4% GDP every year! I could never vote for The Reform/Brexit Party.
DeleteThe destruction of the BBC has been a major source of the loss of Britain's soft power & making Boris Johnson and David Cameron as Foreign Secretary hardly added to Britain's standing in the world .
ReplyDeleteThe BBC is a hotbed of defeatist socialism funded by the poor bloody taxpayer. A source of soft power? You dream!
DeleteFor more than a decade, Britain has been beset by weak economic growth, anaemic productivity, and stagnant private and public sector investment. Since 2016, its political leadership has been in a state of Brexit-induced flux.
ReplyDeleteOh, for God's sake this mess seriously predates Brexit
DeleteBrexit is one of many mistakes. People are seriously mistaken to pretend Brexit has had no negative impact.
Delete09:14 Oh, for God's sake this mess seriously includes Brexit.
DeleteThe Office for Budget Responsibility, thinks the UK will ultimately be 4% WORSE OFF, than it would have been if we had voted no to Brexit. https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/the-economy-forecast/brexit-analysis/
The Tory mismanagement goes far further back than the last 14 years. For example:
ReplyDelete* There is a housing crisis as council homes were sold off.
* There is failure now stemming from water, rail and energy privatisation of the past.
So does Labour screw ups
DeleteAll empires rise and fall. Let's face it, America won WWII for us.
ReplyDeleteNo the Russians won the war . And then the Americans saved us from the Russians
ReplyDeleteTalking of Russians …
DeleteAlexander Lebedev is the owner of the Evening Standard newspaper. And, the Evening Standard now intends to go from a daily print schedule to weekly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evening_Standard