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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
The Conservatives, my party, got two things right:
1. Leaving the EU, saddled as they were with May's Withdrawal Agreement;
2. COVID vaccinations after the floundering jfman has described.
They are now getting a number of things wrong, but the elephant in the room is the debt accrued during lockdown. I'm sure the Guvmin knows stuff that we can only glean from leaks or very wise economists - stuff future about interest rates and balancing debt paydown (over as long a period as possible, like 50 years) with levelling the economy around the country.
I believe that capital borrowing makes sense but they don't have seem to havea plan for building new industry in the North.
They also have no idea how to deal with power demands. Bloweth not the wind, shineth not the sun and where's the nuclear/gas/coal to supplement the void?
Boris spouts on about the climate with absolutely no control over China/India and no policy for making washing machines in the UK.
As for Labour, they'd be even worse as they squabble about increasing wages whilst reducing productivity.
We're doomed!
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Boris is spot on though when he said the other day that the financial hit of lockdowns, furlough etc etc from the covid response has to be paid back, and that Thatcher would have done the same - for the faults she did have, Maggie was spot on about how to turn the economy around. We can't keep generating debt and it has to be clawed back somehow.
I also think he's fundamentally right about the labour issues - having got by on cheap labour the firms need to wise up and pay a fair wage, though understandably this will increase their costs and that this will probably be passed onto the consumer, though this should have happened anyway as we shouldn't ethically have been paying labourers from abroad a pittance to do it anyway, although this could still have happened with freedom of movement, so isn't specifically a Brexit issue.
As for energy. Well, it's clear we can't rely on reliable supply from wind or solar, and we don't have anywhere to use HEP really, if we're deciding not to use coal, and Mad Vlad is being a pain over gas, there's really only one option. One just needs to ignore the hippies who harp on about Fukushima (natural disaster which we aren't exposed to) or Chernobyl (Dyatlov being a dick) and understand that it's incredibly safe to run, the isotopes are easily cleanly disposed of (the half life is high, and they aren't high gamma emitters, so can easily be buried in a concrete box) and that it generates large amounts of reliable energy, it's an absolute no brainer in my view...
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Originally Posted by jfman
The fact they say it only means it’s agreed Government policy. Politicians are conveniently hiding behind scientists when it suits them.
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This was happening both ways, remember "following the science"? Though I do remember Harries, van Tam and Whitty all going on about how face coverings were more harm than good, then all of a sudden, when the government wanted to do it, then "the science has changed". Well, I doubt it had. And I'm still doubtful that they do have that much of an effect.