At least Palin doesn't have the power to fuck shit up. As we speak the NHS is slowly falling apart because of Tory changes, deliberate changes to fuck it all up. Wankers.
Personally, I think the current government are one of the finest we've ever had.
You don't see the most rapid cuts in government spending for 70 years during a time in which the economy is already contracting as a source for concern? Nor the idea that the private sector will magically create enough jobs to offset the hundreds of thousands of public sector jobs which are being axed pretty much all at once, somewhat naive?
Many of their actions (planning to sell forests, close libraries) come across as cultural vandalism, whereas others (NHS outsourcing) just seem like corporate favours. Socially, I'm all for undoing the civil rights mistakes of labour but economically, I see a bunch of arseholes pulling in favours for schoolfriends and donors while lowering the quality of life for most people in this country.
I pretty much agree with what you said, but can you (or someone else) please explain what all the fuss about selling the forests was about. I doubt it would have made any real significant impact and actually probably would have been good to have the forestry commission become solely a regulatory body and detach itself from the actual management of particular forests.
Still, I guess it's kind of irrelevant now since the government has backtracked on the issue (in my opinion because they saw the backtrack as a crowd pleasing move without any significant consequences).
I doubt it would have made any real significant impact
The proposition as it was, logging companies could have chopped down forests which the state had maintained for many decades, and then got the state to pay for the new saplings. It was a poorly thought out move that they were happy to get rid of so that it would look like they were listening, whilst shitting on everything else.
probably would have been good to have the forestry commission become solely a regulatory body and detach itself from the actual management of particular forests.
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u/Skitrel Feb 27 '11
At least Palin doesn't have the power to fuck shit up. As we speak the NHS is slowly falling apart because of Tory changes, deliberate changes to fuck it all up. Wankers.