Rishi Sunak's five promises: What progress has he made?
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The prime minister said these five priorities should be used to hold his government to account.

I still can’t believe one of them was “stop the boats”.

Of the others:

  • Halve inflation (still a long way to go)
  • Grow the economy (economy is board flat)
  • Cut the national debt (debt has now risen to 100% GDP)
  • Cut NHS waiting lists (waiting lists now even longer)
  • Crunkle_Foreskin@kbin.social
    01·
    1 year ago

    At this point, I really hope Reform UK makes some progress at the next general election. The Tories are weak on almost everything, including the economy, and Labour have no hope of being anything but the same.

    • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
      2·
      1 year ago

      Nope sorry we will lurch from Tory to Labour to Tory to Labour again and again as long as first past the post is the voting system.

      Labour have made cute noises about electoral reform but I really can’t see them doing anything about this when in power. Suddenly it will be “not a priority at this point in time”.

    • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukOPM
      0·
      1 year ago

      I’m assuming you mean to bleed ultra-right-wing tories away from the main party, splitting the vote?

      I’m still amazed they were permitted to make their logo an arrow pointing towards the box on the voting form.

      • Crunkle_Foreskin@kbin.social
        01·
        1 year ago

        I’m still amazed they were permitted to make their logo an arrow pointing towards the box on the voting form.
        This was a pretty genius (and dubious) move, surprised it was allowed too.

        Did you ever read the Brexit Party manifesto? I don’t see how it makes them ‘ultra-right-wing tories’. These are a few pieces from the manifesto:

        No privatisation of the NHS
        Cutting VAT on domestic fuel
        Banning the UK exporting its waste
        Providing free broadband in deprived regions
        Scrapping the television licence fee
        Abolishing inheritance tax
        Scrapping High Speed 2 (HS2)
        Abolishing interest on student loans
        Changing planning to help house building
        Reforming the Supreme Court
        Reform the voting system to make it more representative
        Abolish the House of Lords
        Making MPs who switch parties subject to recall petitions
        Reform the postal voting system to combat fraud
        Introduce Citizens’ Initiatives to allow people to call referendums, subject to a 5 million threshold of registered voter signatures and time limitations on repeat votes

        • Tenebris Nox@feddit.uk
          1·
          1 year ago

          The Brexit Party is a right-wing libertarian populist party organised out of Tufton Street. What we know about populists is that they make promises that large sections of the electorate generally want with no actual intention of carrying them out. Berlusconi’s whole career was built out of that in Italy. Farage has always insistedhe wants the NHS privatised.

          Their policies were always a chaotic mix of meas - intended to be so by a section of the ruling class who wants to see the UK a completely deregulated extreme neoliberal state where the free market is some Lovecraftian deity we worship and are terrified will slaughter us.

          • Crunkle_Foreskin@kbin.social
            0·
            1 year ago

            Which is why I wouldn’t mind if they pulled some votes away from the Tories :) Coal-mining would be a big win for those dying Northern towns these days (though admittedly due in part to the Tories), not to mention massive health and safety advancements since the 70s would make coal-mining somewhat safer these days (though I wouldn’t do it). Certainly a better idea that importing gas from Russia.

            I recall Labour wanting to keep coal mines open in the 70s, strangely enough.