FabSwingers.com forum: How has the Government done?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

So what is the verdict? Have they been good, bad, in the middle?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not sure how to define good etc.

Trying to be dispassionate, I think it's sensible on the poor side.

He's delivered a rubbish NIP, but that was all very public before the election, and so he has done what he was asked. However the continued bullshit loses him marks as he's going back on an election promises.

Covid, well that wasn't expected. Imo some clangers in there, but no one country has done well. UK is at the lower end.

Care: breaking a manifesto promises isn't a good look. But at least the conversation has been started. Implemented in line with Tory strategy.

Scandals: there always are and they have managed to get through them.

Other promises: probably gets a bye on these as covid has been a distraction.

But tbf they have not been the huge failure some predicted. They have not (yet) pushed through anything too controversial with the majority. But I don't think they have really done anything either. Brexit and covid have been distractions from proper governing.

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By *sussexyMan
over a year ago

Lewes

Well, for the first time since January they are behind in a poll (Yougov today)...

But you can't read to much into a single poll.

"Care...implemented in line with Tory strategy"
All I see is a promise to think about care after the GE, while piling money from the poor into the NHS. Not worth anything to care providers at all.

What you seem to have completely omitted is damage to our reputation in the world:

Breaking international agreements (or at least showing you are prepared to do so) is foolish in the extreme. Especially when this is an agreement you just made and pronounced yourself happy with.

Cutting foreign aid. Well, words fail me.

and then this...

"but no one country has done well."
Really? NZ are still looking pretty good from where I am sitting. Not perfect (insufficient testing resource for delta, slowish vax program) but about 157,000 reasons to be happier than us.

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By *lixerMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

The worst in my adult life.

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By *V-AliceTV/TS
over a year ago

Ayr

Covid has forced them - against all their instincts - to do the right thing by the majority; ie. act a lot more like a socialist government would.

As to how well they've done? They've done as well as could be expected of them; given the staggering lack of talent, aptitude, awareness, intelligence and empathy the individuals that make up the Cabinet regularly display.

If this shower were not in charge, the death toll from Covid would be significantly lower. They're the mush from the very bottom of the barrel.

No matter how well you think they've done - you can't escape that, due to their initial idiocy and indecisiveness, well over 100,000 UK citizens are dead because of them.

If you think that doesn't blot their record; what the fuck is wrong with you?

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By *uddy laneMan
over a year ago

dudley

Government is just a fiction and an illusion it is the human beings who take office and divide, stoke fear and manipulate.

And it is working perfect, 10 out of 10.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

A dreadful implementation of brexit, that they are now trying to change, such as the Northern Ireland part, negatively affecting millions of people, as if they are surprised about what they agreed to.

The Covid catastrophe, where we have almost the highest deaths per million people in the world. The atrocious imposition of thousands of people into care homes, with the ensuing needless death sentences. Slow responses to each wave, again losing thousands of pointless lives and meaning the lockdowns thus had to be for longer, harming the country to a greater extent.

Such poor strategic planning and atrocious decision making/implementation, can't be viewed as anything other than a major failure of a government.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

So much eloquently said already…

Don’t forget legitimising lying, corruption, mediocrity (Gavin Williamson) and eroding democracy. Don’t forget the insidious culture wars…undermining the arts, live music…racism…snuffing out the hopes and dreams of young people…the worst and most dangerous government in living memory

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By *9alMan
over a year ago

Bridgend

"Covid has forced them - against all their instincts - to do the right thing by the majority; ie. act a lot more like a socialist government would.

If this shower were not in charge, the death toll from Covid would be significantly lower. They're the mush from the very bottom of the barrel.

No matter how well you think they've done - you can't escape that, due to their initial idiocy and indecisiveness, well over 100,000 UK citizens are dead because of them.

If you think that doesn't blot their record; what the fuck is wrong with you?"

they have had to delay the inquiry into covid as there is a shortage of whitewash, used too much in the Grenfell enquiry .

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