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
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    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.