Emeritus Prof Christopher May
The IPPR thinks it will take two terms to reverse the damage wrought on the #publicservies by the #Tories.... sadly I think they are under-estimating the damage the Tory strategy has caused the underlying social structures that support the #publicsector.
Don't get me wrong the work needs to start & will certainly take a decade, but the reversal will take decades to finally rid us of the legacy of a toxic decade of #austerity...
The more immediate Q. is: is #KeirStarmer the man to do it????
Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷
@HighlandLawyer @Yoshi @ChrisMayLA6 I favour keeping the Union, but breaking England into Scotland-sized regions (by population/economy, not geography, of course), and giving all regions devolved Assemblies. Turn Westminster into just a Federal government.
Mrs Cloudy
@KimSJ @HighlandLawyer @Yoshi @ChrisMayLA6 there is absolutely no push within England for that to happen. Unless the nations of the UK become independent of each other, the decline of the whole is inevitable.
Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷
@Yoshi @ChrisMayLA6 The UK has still not recovered from the damage to society wrought by Maggie Thatcher. I’m not sure we’ll ever fully recover from the damage of the last 14 years. For a start there are losses of economic growth and international stature which would require herculean effort to repair, and I think we may have lost both the skills and the will to put in that effort.
Maybe the best we can hope is that Labour slows the decline. 😢
HighlandLawyer
@KimSJ @Yoshi @ChrisMayLA6 Frankly, ending the UK with Scotland & England separating (ideally with NI & Wales getting to decide their choice of destination too) would probably be at least as beneficial to England as to Scotland. Fresh start all around.
Yoshimatsu ✅🇺🇸 🇺🇦
@ChrisMayLA6 Let me one-up you. It will take 2 generations to restore the damage wrought by MAGA moron and his sycophants.
Normal for '24 😷🇪🇺🍸
@CloudyMrs @KimSJ @HighlandLawyer @Yoshi @ChrisMayLA6
Pretty much the only fundamental change that might work is PR. That way a coalition of minority Labour+LibDem+SNP might be able to steer a course back to sanity. The way to get that is 1) utterly destroy the Conservative Party and 2) don't vote for the Labour candidate if another party is more likely to stop the Tory candidate.
Mrs Cloudy
@jbond @KimSJ @HighlandLawyer @Yoshi @ChrisMayLA6 Daydreams.
Mrs Cloudy
@KimSJ this is worth a listen. The conversation fringes on this topic.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/73LNAfBJAGQbWkggfllGjd?si=ShJ7NTP7QumcqVNxt8QaJQ
Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷
@CloudyMrs That’s how most ideas start. 😜
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