Saturday 22 June 2024

Worst..Government...Ever.

 
MRP stands for Multilevel Regression and Post-stratification which is a statistical modelling technique whereby pollsters combine a very large poll with other sources of information such as census data in order to estimate the support for parties in every constituency.
Three MRP polls have been published and whichever way you dice it, it isn't good news for the Conservatives as they all predict Labour are on course for majority of either 162, 200 or 382.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been caught moaning that voters have: 'failed to appreciate our superb record' after 14 years of Tory rule so do the Tories deserve any credit for the past 14 years?
Not according to political historian Sir Anthony Seldon who has analysed what it has achieved in every area of policy from 2010 to 2024 and say this lot have been the worse than any other in postwar history.
His verdict is that in comparison to the earlier four periods of one-party dominance post-1945, it is hard to see the years since 2010 as anything but disappointing.
He says Britain’s standing in the world is lower, the union is less strong, the country less equal, the population less well protected, growth more sluggish, public services under performing while respect for the civil service, judiciary and the police was lower than when they came into office.
He blames it on decisions made such as Brexit, the frequency of scandals and crises and a lack of strategic and long term thinking and it was hard to find a comparable period in history of any government which achieved so little.
Of the leaders themselves, he has concluded that Boris Johnson and Liz Truss were inept and 'not up to the job of being prime minister' Teresa May did next to nothing in her time in power but David Cameron was ok and Rishi Sunak inherited an already broken party.
A Conservative Party spokesman said: 'Since 2010, Conservative governments have made great strides with 4 million more people in work, record funding in the NHS, pensioners protected with the triple lock and education standards improved' although funnily enough he never mentioned the
highest tax burden in 70 years, NHS waiting lists at record high, a dentistry crisis leaving people forced to pull out own teeth, the Partygate scandal saw Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak receive police fines, mortgages and interest rates soaring, austerity wrecking vital public services, the raw sewage scandal, schools literally crumbling, the Tory party chair sacked over evading tax or the Covid PPE scandals.
Yep, Worst..Government...Ever.

4 comments:

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...

only the worst if you ignore ussr, cuba, venezuela, n kor, china, islamic nations, most african nations - - the marxists and monarchies (ooops not so old uk history)

Falling on a bruise said...

Unless my atlas is way off, not UK.

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...

it is uk, not UK. "UK" was when it was a global power, not a second tier power as it is today, so uk. just like eu, germany, france, italy, et al.

Anonymous said...

I’m embarrassed for you. So embarrassed actually I am not even going to mock you.