In the interest of balance name me one thing one positive of this tory govt.

BiggEggo said:
Ukraine was a "save Big Dog" distraction. Not sure why we are donating more generously than other nations mind. I get the USA shower them with money to fight a proxy war against Russia.
Why are we giving more than other comparable countries. That is of course assumes that the govt are actually telling us the truth, which would be a collectors item.
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We've done a great job using our arms industry contacts buying up a load of old soviet munitions and passing them on to Ukraine.
 
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Frozen Horse said:
Fair point regarding Ukraine.

Vaccination roll out was fairly efficient compared to other European countries. Lots of other mistakes made during Covid though.

Otherwise, it's pretty damning when you have to start listing U-turns as positives. Reversing of Truss's tax cuts was humiliating, a problem of their own creation, and the overall episode was harmful to the country. U-turns are humiliating, but swallowing the humiliation was the right thing to do, and they did it.
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The vaccine roll out was fairly efficient, because the Government had hardly anything to do with it. It was efficient because of the NHS, Katie Bingham and the Army. Quite a few European countries after a later start, soon overtook the UK in vaccine roll out and uptake.
 
Randy said:
Furlough scheme. Without that if you thought the country was in a poor state now, without it, it would resemble either a post apocalyptic wasteland or a UBI dystopia.
Eat out to help out helped save the jobs of many many people in the hospitality industry and the supply chain although poorly implemented. It also contrary to popular belief had nothing to do with the spread of COVID.
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I'm sorry but your last sentence is just wrong. I'm sure that the eat out to help out scheme did help save jobs in the Hospitality industry, which was treated absolutely abysmally by the Government, probaly more so than any other sector. We used the scheme quite a few times and probably rather selfishly and stupidly (knowing what we later found out), helped the virus to spread. I subsequently bought and read a book, called Failures of State, which collected and published evidence, from multiple sources, that totally refutes your assertion that it "had nothing to do with the spread of COVID".
 
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I'm sorry but your last sentence is just wrong. I'm sure that the eat out to help out scheme did help save jobs in the Hospitality industry, which was treated absolutely abysmally by the Government, probaly more so than any other sector. We used the scheme quite a few times and probably rather selfishly and stupidly (knowing what we later found out), helped the virus to spread. I subsequently bought and read a book, called Failures of State, which collected and published evidence, from multiple sources, that totally refutes your assertion that it "had nothing to do with the spread of COVID".
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Did this book mention anything about supermarkets been 'spreading' events? Who was/were the author/s of said book? I'd be interested to read it.
 
Anyone got a quick list, or even top 3 of those things listed in the previous pages of this thread… I really can’t be bothered to search them all to see if anyone actually thinks there’s anything positive about this shower of Shiz…
 
Randy said:
Did this book mention anything about supermarkets been 'spreading' events? Who was/were the author/s of said book? I'd be interested to read it.
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It detailed numerous and repeated superspreader events. It was written by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnot of the Sunday Times Insight team and is an absolutely damning indictment of the Governments handling of the Pandemic.I can get my copy back from my mate and kill two birds with one stone by lending it to you and having a meal out in the restaurant you work at.
 
Lefty said:
We've done a great job using our arms industry contacts buying up a load of old soviet munitions and passing them on to Ukraine.
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Yes, that's a real driver. A justification to siphon the public purse (again) to spend with their big business buddy arms manufacturers. Bit like PPE vip Lane on repeat.
 
gregorgregorovich said:
It detailed numerous and repeated superspreader events. It was written by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnot of the Sunday Times Insight team and is an absolutely damning indictment of the Governments handling of the Pandemic.I can get my copy back from my mate and kill two birds with one stone by lending it to you and having a meal out in the restaurant you work at.
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Any chapters on the origins of the virus and how it first appeared here?
 
WoodallServices said:
I think it was mentioned on tv when they were talking about Sunak passing other peoples ideas off as his own, but as mentioned on here lots of countries had (and still have) some sort of furlough scheme.
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I was aware that other countries did similar things. Didn't know where the idea came from here. In any event, regardless of the reasons it was agood bit of legislation, albeit it was implemented badly.
 
there isnt any positive,only one i can see is they have lost the next election without a doubt,but what more damage will they inflict until then,who knows,still,the boro are on the up!!!!!
 
newyddion said:
‘Brexit’ people that were for remaining wouldn’t see sense from those who wanted to leave and vice versa.. what we got was the bent politicians making all the decisions and gaming our exit to their absolute gain.

Brexit was not one thing, it was a dumb name given to a huge amount of many different agreements and arrangements between countries. ‘Brexit’ has or has not benefited out country is not even a statement that will ever make sense.

The Conservative chose to have the country leave the European Union, the single market and customs union without any agreements in place. They should not have been trusted to make that move, if anything the EU was holding us together and protecting us from the disaster capitalists hiding in our own parliament!

Corbyn and a soft brexit would have wiped the floor with the tories in 2019.. remainers wouldn’t have it. All or nothing, rather see the county burn than see compromise.
Well we passed the torch to Boris Johnson and he burnt the lot down.
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Spot on
 
Fat_Dragon said:
Banning all new homes being sold as leasehold.
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Not yet, in 2023

And then completley ignorning the 5 million people currently stuck in ever spiralling fleecehold rip off scams with disgracefully high service charges and increasing ground rents they
were misold, and continue to live under which will actually get worse when all new houses and flats are sold as freehold because it will massively undervalue their property and make
is impossible to sell
 
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