What A Disaster This Government Has Turned Out To Be.

[Canary42]

Prices are going up, universal credit has been cut, energy bills will rise again, and soon people will feel another hit from the National Insurance increase and the inevitable council tax hikes down the line.

Farmers are being forced to incinerate thousands of pigs due to a national shortage of skilled butchers, while a huge shortfall of HGV drivers is taking workers from other sectors. All of this could have been foreseen by a competent government. This chaos won’t magically sort itself out. But what is the Tory response? To raise taxes for working people, and endlessly campaign instead of seriously govern – they’re more bothered about their rich cronies funding the Party than solutions to the issues facing the country.

Boris got it wrong. He stuck his head in the sand for weeks, saying supply-chain problems didn’t exist. As working people started to feel the hit of soaring prices, he came to the table not with a solution, but a fantasy that this was his grand strategy all along.

Now instead of sorting it out, Boris had gone into hiding again. When the going gets tough, Boris hides. How do those people who are nervously watching their outgoings rise and rise feel? In the teeth of a crisis of its own making, the government has put its out-of-office notice out.

It wasn't enough to “get Brexit done”. They should have had a plan to "make Brexit work". Despite having more than five years since the referendum, the Tories have not bothered to tackle skills shortages that were inevitably going to occur post-Brexit.

[ToraToraTora]

.....it's like a broken record!

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/prediction_main.html

[jno]

it's like a broken country!

I love it how Tories are happy to sacrifice their pigs (and their aged relatives) as long as it keeps Boris in power.

[Deskdiary]

You've C&P'd a load of your OP from The Guardian - but haven't referenced it, presumably as you want to pass it off as your own.

Busted.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/12/britain-chaos-government-supply-chain-crisis-tories

[bednobs]

it annoys me immensely when people just post stuff from other sources and pretend it's theirs. as if other people dont read papers. Or facebook. Or whatever

[ABerrant]

"Prices are going up..." - yes, globally (e.g. warnings in July UK inflation would double to 4% by end of year when Germany already had 4% inflation)

"energy bills will rise again" - yes, globally (the increased trading price of gas affects everybody who buys gas)

"and the inevitable council tax hikes down the line" - Council Tax is set by, wait for it..., councils not government.

[CrapAtCryptics]

Universal credit wasnt cut it was clearly stated it was a temporary benefit. As for the rest do you think pandemics and their effects come cheap, no one else would have done any better certainly not the dissarayed Labour clowns.

[andres]

Why don't all you misery guts just pack your bags and go to live somewhere else. I'm glad we weren't so negative during the war or we would all be speaking German now.

[teacake44]

I'm just packing a bag, its a lovely sunny day here so off to park up at the river edge for a nice afternoon and a picnic and a bit of fishing.

[ToraToraTora]

andres: "Why don't all you misery guts just pack your bags and go to live somewhere else. I'm glad we weren't so negative during the war or we would all be speaking German now. " - bang on we'd never have stood a chance with the current batch of whingers.

[Kardashev]

It seems government detractors ignore the fact that we have been in the midst of crises.

[andres]

^^^ TTT--true.

[Redhelen72]

Its not just gas though - my oil has gone up £35 in 1 week!

[ToraToraTora]

Perhaps somewhere in a parallel universe, CCC won, I'd love to be able to peek into that omnishambles!

[anneasquith]

The torys with Boris in charge, can do anything it likes there is no credible political party to question them. Boris appears to have a fan club who adore him.

[anneasquith]

Ttt, is talking about the war. . That’s the Tory party!!!

[ToraToraTora]

andres was talking about the war, I just joined in.

[ToraToraTora]

anne: "The torys with Boris in charge, can do anything it likes there is no credible political party to question them. Boris appears to have a fan club who adore him. " ... and yet the lefty types still choose to attack tanks with bows and arrows rather than trying to get their own tanks. Just wait if Scotland get "independence" it'll be even harder to get us out of no 10, mwwahaha

[anneasquith]

Ugh. There is nothing worse than an old creepy male Tory . :-(

[ToraToraTora]

Real Labour last won in 1974, if I was them and their supporters I'd be trying to work out why that was and do something about it.