tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post5784339479422382114..comments2024-03-26T09:38:39.888+00:00Comments on Borthlas: Right hands and right handsJohn Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447224248021209852noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-4326881597886813592022-05-02T14:40:07.950+01:002022-05-02T14:40:07.950+01:00" Only two of those (Covid and the war) are n..." Only two of those (Covid and the war) are not the direct result of ideology-based government policies," yet both of those have triggered expensive and idiotic government reactions of the most shambolic kind which damage the prospects of doing much on other fronts. <br /><br />Did they ever get anything right when tackling Covid ? Well, maybe they did eventually after god knows how many attempts at this that and the other. Combine their hit or miss response with the darker activities of some of their close allies who maxed out on profit taking through over priced and defective services and you see quite clearly how easy it is to get 2 wheels into the gutter and possibly all four ! So much waste, so much gained by the insider cliques. <br /><br />As for the war in Ukraine,if the UK Gov is genuinely and wholeheartedly committed to peace then it is going about it in a very odd way. Shipping large quantities of "defence" equipment is all well and good, but who pays for it? The government is obsessed with having a thriving defence sector but this seems like an open ended commitment to enriching defence companies who were already doing nicely thank you ripping off the UK's MOD! <br /><br />So Boris, Rishi and Co prove they can spend like mad when it suits them. Ask them to take similar steps to ameliorate the burden on their own public - like cut VAT, slash the green levy say for a year and out come the usual platitudes about the limits on expenditure. So transparent yet as far as I know no one has ventured on to the streets to protest. Have we already arrived at the compliant Fascist state that features so heavily in the wet dreams of so many Westminster politicians ? dafishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04216920242825385976noreply@blogger.com