More. We're decades behind on reservoir requirements. There's a whole bunch of planned reservoirs and one anywhere near completion.
We have shitload of unemployed people.
In part because we've made employing and training people prohibitively expensive/risky, and not working increasingly worthwhile.
We have showrooms full of tractors and diggers sitting doing nothing
Private companies have showrooms full of tractors and diggers. The UK would have to borrow more money (seen the yields lately?) or tax people more to buy them and employ people to actually use them.
(As an aside, he's how to tell when ANY prime minister is going to fail a housing target: always. Why? The UK government doesn't own a housebuilding company. You don't own the asset, you don't decide how it's used without £££.)
We have supermarkets full of food and houses sitting empty.
Private companies have supermarkets full of food, and private owners have houses sitting empty. Both cost money, which as above, the UK government would have to borrow more of and/or raise taxes to pay for. To really labour the point, how to tell when ANY prime minister will fail on bringing down the cost of asylum: always. Why? The UK government doesn't own enough dwellings to house them. You don't own the asset, you don't decide how it's used without £££.
Long story short. Government broke as fuck. People who don't understand economics will now tell me that government debt is not like household debt, and as long as they don't look at rising bond yields, rising and increasingly unsustainable debt interest payments, and rising government debt as a percentage of GDP they can pretend their world view is accurate.
The weirdest thing is that we still won't create more reservoirs after this because we just genuinely do not have the money. We've reached a point that the money just isn't there to do things we need to do, but since the wheels haven't come off the bus yet we can pretend it's all fine.
Green, like Reform/Restore, have 50% batshit policies and 50% sensible. It pains me that we can't have a political party that lives in the real world without batshit crazy attached.
The Christian nationalists would absolutely crucify them, it's career suicide and they know it.
How are they to enforce it?
Same question goes to international courts frequently. Can rule all you like, it's all meaningless if you can't enforce it and those subject to your rulings don't care enough to listen.
The petition system exists to make the people think they have a voice. Much like parish councils etc. Keep the busybodies busy with nothing so they don't stick their nose in something.
Why would you subject yourself to Gnome voluntarily????
I use Arch btw
No-one is suing reddit for any of this. Reddit is a private business that can charge what it likes for it's API, can shut down 3P apps usage without warning etc.
The only power we have is leaving the platform.
It's already started.
You misunderstand. Consultants don't want to be experts in anything. Becoming an expert takes a lot of time and experience, which naturally limits the number of things you can be an expert in.
No, consultants just want to say they're experts in things. No time/experience needed, just a plucky consultant and a keyboard.
With that in mind, Accenture are experts at SAP and AI now.
There's some incredible double-think involved in politicians making promises they know will fail but doing it anyway because the good optics now minus the bad optics then is a net positive by just being in the media saying nice things.
Sunak knew he'd not stop the boats, but he said it anyway.
Boris Johnson knew he'd not build 40 new hospitals but he said it anyway.
Burnham knows he won't get all rough sleepers off the streets in five months, but he said it anyway.
We're perpetually governed by people who calculate that lying for good press now and being caught in that lie later is worth more than not lying in the first place.