It's getting more obvious by the day that the recent bunch of politicians are just not sensible. I suppose we always knew that they lied to your face and all the usual but these decisions they make cannot be thought through properly.
Inflation up, jobs down, unemployment up, significant downturns starting to be reported and it was all predictable as they've made this common mistake loads of times before and not learned the lessons of their own destructive policies. "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" is often attributed to Albert Einstein, but it's likely a misattribution. Whatever, they double down and make the same mistake again and then again!
Other things you can see are stupid, nanny state stuff for the sake of looking like they are addressing one thing and then something else happens. I think I mentioned it before, the "Cobra Effect" in colonial India refers to a failed policy where the British government offered a bounty for dead cobras to reduce their population in Delhi. Instead of decreasing, the cobra population increased because people began breeding cobras for the bounty, effectively turning the situation into a cobra farming operation. This unintended consequence became known as the Cobra Effect, highlighting how incentives can backfire and worsen the problem they were intended to solve.
I red this morning that Red Squirrels are under threat in Scotland as they have enacted an air rifle law over some incident and people have to get some sort of licence. As the author points out, if you are a Ne'er-do-well you aren't going to bother. The law abiding citizens now rarely use their rifles as they haven't applied for their licence and good lord, who'd have thunk it? Red Squirrels are now under threat as the Grey Squirrels that the Air Rifle users were pest controlling are taking over again. The Grey is an American non native.
IT won't be the last time either, the stupidity of these people knows no bounds. I am glad to see that the various councils that Reform have taken over are getting scrutinised for how they spend OUR money. A sort of UK DOGE unit is you like. Whilst they are meant to deal with waste they are not meant to be causing it. There are people with non jobs the Net Zero team and the DEI HR people, you never needed a separate department 40 years ago why do you need one now? I think they said £140 M they'd found so far. Many of these councils are approaching bankruptcy and have massive debts and they really don't know how to run the very thing they are employed at great salaries to do.
I have experience in this area having dealt with a couple of councils in my time who were failing and who being offered a solution to control everything in one suite of management software felt that it would flag up too many problems. Rather than actually know what the problems were and their KPIs, inter-dependencies and risk monitoring and mitigation they were happy to let it be. It was jaw dropping that the Chief Executive couldn't answer some of the basic questions and bullied his staff - right in front of us to say they didn't have a problem where we'd been information gathering for a day and knew the opposite was true. Such is the level of "management" we have these days, they appear to be the very opposite of how we were taught and how we worked.
It's the bare faced lying and obvious lack of grasp of their subject that is astonishing. Politicians now just stuff it in your face, cannot answer questions, lie continuously - the list goes on and wonder why they've lost any respect (not that they had much left) from the public. Finally, they seem to be waking up and seeing this Chimera before them. The worst is yet to come gathering by the figures I am looking at not the glossy weasel words. Go look at the real figures on employment, inflation and business investment and then be afraid because it is heading for a crash and not all countries are. This is of their own making and I am waiting for something like "We are going to borrow more money to pay the debt we have!" or something like that.
Their answer will be to come back to the people for more tax which will disincentivise the people further and with the recent hit on energy and food prices, people will rein in their spending and the death spiral will get started. They said they were going for growth - the only growth I see is mould and moss over the deserted landscapes of our towns and cities and the loss of more jobs because people just wont be buying stuff anymore. The latest splashing of our money is going to incentivise us to buy electric cars. There's more discounts to attract people and allowance to let you (those who live close to roads) have a gully to safely take your electric charging lead to your car. Again, they don't live in the real world at all. Ask anyone who lives with road parking how often they actually get to park their car anywhere near the front of their house and you'll find that once in a blue moon is probably the answer.
People know that electric cars are meant to be the future but now they've had them for a while, the expectations are turning to disillusionment as it comes home to roost just how unpractical they are. My daughter's car was worked on every month for 18 months and eventually they gave up and she got another car, a petrol one. Mostly you are paying more for an electric car and so in these hard times, knowing that to own one of these is going to give you little or no return and they depreciate so fast that they realistically lose you a lot of money. I only know of one person who likes theirs and even they've had three or four call outs this year on minor problems. People aren't buying it and are suffering from all the other taxes imposed on us, the worst burden since after WW2.
Their ideology is diametrically opposed to the reality but, none of these people have worked in business (or if they have they were juniors) they mainly come up the lobbying and local government route and they have their heads full of Marx and Keynesian economics which are not what is needed at all. The whack of taxes has pared back business owners, the slew of employment laws coming will also do the same, none of it make sense and it is hurting present and future growth, the opposite of what they said they wanted. The slow train crash continues before our very eyes and the wide eyed naive politicians seeing the curve ahead ope the throttle fully in the hope they'll stay on track.
We all know what's going to happen and who will feel the pain. That pain needs to be transferred back to the policy makers and advisers. As I am oft reminded by Edmund Blackadder "I wouldn't trust him to sit the right way up on a toilet!" So full of it, I doubt they've ever been to a toilet and warning tags are attached to their backsides stating "Don't give enema!" on the supposition that if you did all the sh1t and wind would be knocked out of them and they'd disappear altogether!
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