Over the course of few posts recently, I’ve outlined the fragility of the “bonfire of quangos” theme on the right, suggesting instead that welfare reform is the place to look for substantial savings, but also taking a hard look at statutory obligations.
Getting our current PTB to accommodate, let alone agree to this is like voting fat, overfed turkeys to vote for Christmas. They won't do it. It may well take more than an election.
Unfortunately much of the demos is largely now so dumbed-down and/or foreign or fed up with the whole parliamentary system, that it is going to take a big societal shake up to achieve. On present performance, the squabbling between the egos of leaders of various groups turns people off and doesn't help us achieve what we otherwise might. Why can't they see that?
Excellent article and very thought provoking. Maybe we need a modern day Boston Tea Party style revolt from local government at the sharp end to get this properly funded and sorted? I have to admit the cost of social care being taken off balance sheet for the government had escaped me. When you think it’s pushing 100% without this, public sector pensions and PFI commitments were really closer to 200% our borrowing costs are really only going one way.
Sorry, Pete, but I have no idea what you're talking about in general. I'm sure you're right, in a properly thought-out way and view. But we readers are simple folk. Maybe we're too simple. I can't really comment on others. I know that you are getting so deep into the detail that you're completely losing me. (Not that I'm any brain of Britain.) Just my thoughts.
There should be no welfare except for disabled people. That's it. The end.
The education system needs to stop labelling children and simply stream them according to ability and provide routes to suitable jobs for everyone. That's it. The end.
Shrink government to the role of enforcing standards - safety and suitability (inspectorates), behaviour (the police), maintaining national security (armed forces and border force) and providing infrastructure (road, rail, airports, water, energy) and butt out of everything else which the free market and the common sense of regular people will handle.
Getting our current PTB to accommodate, let alone agree to this is like voting fat, overfed turkeys to vote for Christmas. They won't do it. It may well take more than an election.
Unfortunately much of the demos is largely now so dumbed-down and/or foreign or fed up with the whole parliamentary system, that it is going to take a big societal shake up to achieve. On present performance, the squabbling between the egos of leaders of various groups turns people off and doesn't help us achieve what we otherwise might. Why can't they see that?
Excellent article and very thought provoking. Maybe we need a modern day Boston Tea Party style revolt from local government at the sharp end to get this properly funded and sorted? I have to admit the cost of social care being taken off balance sheet for the government had escaped me. When you think it’s pushing 100% without this, public sector pensions and PFI commitments were really closer to 200% our borrowing costs are really only going one way.
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Sorry, Pete, but I have no idea what you're talking about in general. I'm sure you're right, in a properly thought-out way and view. But we readers are simple folk. Maybe we're too simple. I can't really comment on others. I know that you are getting so deep into the detail that you're completely losing me. (Not that I'm any brain of Britain.) Just my thoughts.
There should be no welfare except for disabled people. That's it. The end.
The education system needs to stop labelling children and simply stream them according to ability and provide routes to suitable jobs for everyone. That's it. The end.
Shrink government to the role of enforcing standards - safety and suitability (inspectorates), behaviour (the police), maintaining national security (armed forces and border force) and providing infrastructure (road, rail, airports, water, energy) and butt out of everything else which the free market and the common sense of regular people will handle.
Simple.
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