Friday 22 July 2022

Bad News Buried

The last day before MPs break up for the summer is the perfect opportunity for the Government to bury bad news and while everyone was looking the other way yesterday, the Government published a report on the Home Office's response to Channel crossings by an independent inspector, which was handed to Priti Patel five months ago, but only published now which rubbished the Governments attempts to stop Channel crossings, the woefully inadequate probe into bribery allegations against the Government into Iraq oil contracts, the highest number of crimes in 20 years and the UK's Brexit cost to the economy rising from £37bn to £42.5bn.
Obviously none of this was reported very much because very few people were paying attention as they dribbled these things out on their way out of the door for six weeks and then we will have a new Prime Minister who, if anyone remembers to ask, will blame the 'previous' administration and keep their fingers crossed that nobody remembers that Truss and Sunak were part of the previous administration who up until very recently backed the awful administration to the hilt.
A very good day to bury bad news indeed but as it's the same people albeit with a change of clothes coming back in September, don't expect too much to improve.

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