I’m critical of a lot of Labour’s approach but Kinnock is right: they’re going to inherit an absolute mess from the Tories in many areas and it’s not all going to be fixable on day one. The Tories have destroyed a lot of things, and messed up what they haven’t actively destroyed.
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nostr:npub1yyx7sllvsrr0fauh2rdlqk5rakf3963g9xk4a7j5uhfcs00lr3kq42qa5g in fairness to him, this looks like something he was forced to say by a journalist, rather than proud centrist flag waving.
nostr:npub1yyx7sllvsrr0fauh2rdlqk5rakf3963g9xk4a7j5uhfcs00lr3kq42qa5g Labour will need to come in with exceptionally clear messaging about how bad things are, what their plan is to fix things, and how they will communicate progress.
Unfortunately they are more than likely to fail at the above.
nostr:npub1yyx7sllvsrr0fauh2rdlqk5rakf3963g9xk4a7j5uhfcs00lr3kq42qa5g Discouraging to see 'managed decline is best we can do' - I respect the sheer scale of the inherited mess but they're missing a solid commitment to improve it. I don't see how a claim they can get "on top of the backlog in six months" next to "The shadow minister refused to give a timeline on when a Labour government would stop using the barges and bring down the backlog from a record high of more than 172,000 cases" does that. "on top of" looks like it's doing heavy lifting.
nostr:npub1yyx7sllvsrr0fauh2rdlqk5rakf3963g9xk4a7j5uhfcs00lr3kq42qa5g Not in the UK so have only seen mention of these barges in passing, but it immediately made me wonder if there’s a plan somewhere and one of the steps that follows is ship them here to Australia. Feels like someone’s trying to repeat history 🙄