Originally Posted by
1959_60
Sinkov, is this a fair assessment of how you may consider how to vote if there was an election tomorrow?
NHS - p1ss poor, but not the Governments fault.
EDUCATION - poor standard, but it is the individual schools that are at fault. Lack of Grammar schools costing us dear. (;D) Government not to blame.
DEFENCE - Poor in many areas. Priorities wrong. Fault of the army/air force/navy. Government not to blame.
ECONOMY - Spending priorities wrong. Too much money going to the nanny state. Fault of Bank of England and the Financial "experts". Government not to blame.
SOCIAL CARE - shocking service. Fault of the Whitehall mandarins and individual care providers and Council providers. Government not to blame.
BREXIT - We have left!, Government has done a great job.
IMMIGRATION - (until this crisis...) immigration from outside the EU continues to rise causing strain on our services. The "experts" have told us that we need immigration to maintain some of our services. It is their fault. Government not to blame.
Basically, the Government is responsible for all the above. In each case they take advice from "experts" but at the end of the day it is the Government who make decisions on funding levels and the structure of the organisations.
You can try to pass the buck on to the various "experts" but the Government is where the buck always stops. At election time you will have to make your own decision on how these services are being provided. You COULD give the Government a free pass and blame shortcomings on the various "experts", but it is the Government who employ these "experts". The "experts" bosses are the Government.
The NHS, for example, must do the bidding of the Government of the day. And is our duty to elect a Government that we think will provide decent services. That Government will then put the funding and structures in place to, hopefully, ensure that the services are run well.
Not difficult to understand? This is how our public services have been run for donkeys years.