Government is a serious business. But this government is not treating it as such.
https://twitter.com/HugoGye/status/1484222229965643778
Exhibit A - Operation Red Meat - throw out eye-catching policy announcements to "rally the backbenches". Policies should address real problems based on proper analysis, assembly of evidence and be well through through.
Policies are designed to change things. They cost public or private attention at a minimum, but more often divert resources - money, people, time. They need to be thought through and justified.
and most need to be sustained and sustainable in the long-term - not just knock a bad party story off a headline for a day.
Exhibit B - schools for votes aka whip blackmail aka reverse pork. This is public money which is supposed to be spent for public benefit. we do not hand the govt/ whips hundreds of billions to use to terrorise their backbenches.
if a school in Radcliffe was justified before Christian Wakeford thought about voting one way, it is justified after he did.... if it wasn't then the money shouldn't have been being spent anyway. Over to you Accounting Officer.
Meanwhile, progress in difficult areas is delayed by a prime minister distracted by surviving another day in office. Levelling Up still missing in action. #netzero on the backburner.
Lots to do on that as @instituteforgov set out here instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/n…
Cost of living crisis to be managed. NSC should be having long discussions on Ukraine. Govt should be working out where it wants to land the NI protocol and how to ensure that it returns NI to stability.
Its #veganuary. Rather than tossing out morsels of red meat to its backbenchers, maybe the govt could give meat up for the month and show it is capable of addressing big, longstanding challenges. ENDS
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