Is there anything that this government has done right?

I would be happy to have written every word of your post (Mon 10-Jun-19 23:50:11) Grany. It is good to see someone putting the use of the weasel words of the current Groupthink in its place.

And then we have Day 6. The keyboard warrior who comes out with not only Group Think but very, very old Groupthink with that very old-fashioned idea that However, many of us fear the madhouse that would materialise should far-left Labour's Corbyn and his Marxist allies get the keys to number ten.

What the Corbyn led Labour Party has suggested is less 'left-wing' than the way those countries which often show as the happiest places to live do - the Nordic countries. These highly democratised countries have looked to the future and not to the past. Something that cannot be said about the current (or any) Tory government.

Tories expect to rule. Look at how their supporters speak to us. No debate just telling us what to do. How could they have been a good government in a time when autonomy and a sense of agency are what we look for. They have ignored the increased education of their voters.

They have gone for the Victorian blame game of deserving and undeserving instead of understanding the changes from employment to work for many. These jobs, however hard they work do not give them a living and this is spreading into what were the previous "middle-class" jobs such as doctors, solicitors, etc. They do not look to the future unless they are drilled for short speeches because they are the Party of the Past; a party of no change.

They cannot, with their current membership of mainly older, white men do anything other than churn out what they have always said. They have no way they can move forward and take the young, the well educated, the women with them without upsetting that base. So they will choose someone like Boris for their leader because that is what their base will vote for - and thankfully someone like Boris will loose them the next election.

A complete change to our so called parliamentary democracy is needed. If we were planning it today we wouldn’t design the 18th century model we currently have. Of course our current bunch won’t vote themselves out of a job so I guess we need a revolution. Come back Oliver Cromwell.

"One must admire the incredible skills the media have in manipulating the population. They've managed to convince many that the most passionate anti-racist campaigner of the last 40 years, Jeremy Corbyn, is pro-racist and anti-Semitic" Noam Chomsky

That's what you find, people quoting word for word what they read in these Billionaire owned propaganda smearing newspapers.

For instance Capitalism or neoliberalism what we have had for a long time (as opposed to socialism) is geared towards the establishment the top 1% of richest to the detriment of the rest of society.

There is no such thing as trickle down economics the rich don't share their wealth they stash it away in tax heavens avoid paying tax on large amounts of their wealth. Then we all suffer public services not being given the money it needs to benefit society as a whole. The government giving tax cuts to big corporations and the very rich not pursuing tax avoiding companies.

Austerity is not a necessity it's an ideology it's economic murder. The government finance is not run like a household budget though they want you to believe that to fool people into believing that austerity is nessessity it's not.

People talk about spend spend spend another tactic to smear Labour, you have to borrow to invest in the economy with excellent polices, all costed and carefully thought out, as in their manifesto.

The Labour Party will tackle climate change and many other amazing things, take a look. We need Socialism right now for a better more fairer equal society for the many with Jeremy Corbyn and his wonderful team in the Labour Party

The Tory debt is in the trillions didn't reduce it as they said many times, so not the party to trust with your money. They are pretty poor at everything the Tories.

EllanVannin
Huts? Good grief. That must have been a tough situation. Were they Nissan huts y'know like half moon shapes?

I trained at Whiston hospital Gabriella and that's changed a lot. They even had " huts " when I was there in 1956 as I worked on hut 16 mens surgical----horrible old places when I think back.
I was actually born there in 1940.

They don't make buildings like they used to.
I recently saw an old photo of the hospital where I started my training in 1962. The Women's Hospital in Catherine Street. My room was above the letter 'S' in Women's.
Happy days.

In answer to the OP question, no, nothing right that I can think of.

I'm just as annoyed at Labour as I am at the Tories for the mess we are in.

And now we have a leadership contest which should have happened last Autumn, with some of the cendidates openly supporting a no-deal Brexit and a couple hinting they will suspend Parliament to force it through.

Halloween is going to be awfully scary this year.

We're living in interesting and rather depressing times. I can't think of anything the government has done right, nor the government before it.
The last time we had a government that did some things right by public service, including the health, education, police and social services, it was 1997 and Tony Blair was PM. Yes I know, Pfi wasn't the best but look at the schools, family centres, new hospitals etc set up that transformed deprived communities.
The was in Iraq was an unmitigated disaster and that of course dominates any discussion on the Blair/Brown years.

It looks as though we may be heading for Boris as PM. Dreadful prospect. Flashman barging through, immoral, dishonest, self seeking, unreliable, lazy, reactive, impulsive, nothing positive about that possibility.

I wish I could be more enthusiastic about the current labour leadership. Having said that, if we have a General Election, I'll vote for our local Labour MP - good person. The Labour manifesto has much more I like than dislike. I just wish the Leader and his group of supporters felt more prime ministerial, reliable and skilled. Still, no contest, it's them or the tories under our FPTP system, so it's them.

We in the NW are heartily sick of the North/South divide and my local Echo has got a bold heading which states :
" It's time to Power-Up the North ", with 36 other newsbrands joining forces.

I find it utterly disgusting that a government can ignore the existence of a population yet still expect a vote for their seat in Parliament.

I've said on more than one occasion that I wouldn't ever protest, but something such as this is definitely worth protesting about. We have suffered the " poor relations " for long enough .

I quote, " If Westminster continues to put London and the South's interest first, then all parties risk being abandoned and obsolete in an increasingly disenchanted , disadvantaged and furious North, " unquote.

I agree Whitewavemark2. Neither Labour nor Tory. The Tories have proved their complete incompetence, racism and sexism (with austerity disproportionately impacting on women) and are in a hurry to sell off the NHS. Meanwhile Corbyn is old-fashioned left-wing - wants to be surrounded by men, has clearly got a problem with addressing anti-semitism (as the Tories have with their anti-Muslim/anti-Islam views).

such a utterly incompetent, vindictive and immoral party

I hate to point it out Whitewave but the same slurs could be levied against Corbyn's Labour party, couldn't they?

An incompetent Leader of the opposition who needs notes before he speaks in the house, sits on the fence, changes direction, a puppet of his masters, blows with the prevailing wind etc, and the vindictive and immoral nature of 1) the Momentum-led NEC and 2) the vein of antisemitism which runs deep within the Labour party.

Not the credentials I want for our next government I am afraid.

Can't argue with that. Madness indeed.

I’m not suggesting any particular alternative I simply think that to re-elect such a utterly incompetent, vindictive and immoral party would be madness.

My post was started prior to Day6's with which I agree.

And, then, would everything be wonderful? Doubt it!!

However, many of us fear the madhouse that would materialise should far-left Labour's Corbyn and his Marxist allies get the keys to number ten.

I think the Conservative Party is washed up - for the time being. If there was a GE now they wouldn't stand a chance. One has to hope that it will be a while before the next election, because UK politics is in a mess generally. If the two party system ensues the UK is going to swing from one grim scenario to the next one.

Labour cannot end austerity (although since when has balancing the books been called 'austerity'?) but could embark on a spend, spend spend spree which the taxpayer will have to pay for. And after a few years we are back to square one..the next party in power being the bad guys because they have to tighten the nation's belt.

No this government has not done anything right.
Shrink the state, privatisation of the NHS most have shares in private health companies. Make the top 1% richer by stealing from the poor.

We need a GE