Sunday 18 February 2024

Broken Britain

The UK is in recession. Again.

There are strikes in most area of public services from the NHS to the railways to the post office.

Productivity has stalled since 2010 when the Coalition Government brought in austerity.

A new round of auterity is being planned by the Chancellor to find tax cuts.

Brexit has had a devastation effect on the economy, and will continue to do so. Inward investment from international companies has crashed. There are hundreds of thousands of vacancies, and yet the answer is not to let more EU national back in, but is to force the sick and disabled look for work instead. Causing more stress and heatache. Meanwhile the Government is prepared to bin millions and millions of COVID vaccinations rather than give them away or allow non-at risk groups to buy them. And at the same time do nothing about the hundreds of thousands suffering from "long COVID".

The Parliamentary Conservative Party is now spit into 5 or six factions, with the latest "Popular Conservatives, aka PopCon, lead by the lest popular Prime Minister of all time, Liz Truss, and JRM. The factions mean that the PM cannot pass any substantive legislation other than its dreadul Rwanda policy, which is now with the Lords.

This week the Conservatives suffered two of the worse by-election results both ended up as Labour gains. And yet the reslts, apparently, mean the Government is getting the job done, and going to Labour is worse than going back to square one.

Sunak has said there will be no election until the end of the year, if so, the country will continue to drift and crumble.

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