PWC made a simple error at the Oscars and are, rightly, being criticised for it. But as I have pointed out, they have committed many more simple errors with much bigger consequences than that. So who too has made simple errors for which a apologies are due?
David Cameron for calling the EU referendum would be a good start.
George Osborne gets a call for believing that shrinking the economy was the way to balance the government's books.
He gets a second call for thinking balancing the books would ever be necessary.
Andrew Lansley owes a big mea culpa for for 2012 Health and Social Care Bill.
As does Ed Miliband for changing the rules of the Labout Party in a way that has rendered it unelectable.
Jeremy Corbyn is on the list for thinking be can lead an opposition when he can't.
Theresa May will owe many apologies for thinking that leaving the EU meant leaving the single market, customs union and EEA.
Jeremey Hunt has also been in the wrong. The list could be long but let's settle for his simple denial that money can't solve the problems in the NHS when glaringly obviously it can.
Then there is Boris Johnson. He just needs to apologise for being Boris Johnson.
I am sure that there are a great many simple errors that need to be acknowledged. The world might be a better place if they were. We could get on with putting things right for a start.
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The BBC, for believing that the bastard son of Benito Mussolini and Screaming Lord Sutch should have been a fixture on Question Time.
Ian Duncan Smith for Universal Credit: what on paper seems like a good idea but was in reality always a key device in the demonisation of the poor, infirm, sick and disabled.
Agreed
IDS is a perfect examplar to show you simply can’t trust somebody who lies on their CV/resume. He’s in much the same sorry bag as Nuttall in this respect.
Oddly enough, the likes of Johnson and Gove don’t seem to have lied about their CVs at any point which is quite surprising when you consider how much else they have lied about.
IDS is a perfect examplar who shows you simply can’t trust somebody who lies on their CV/resume. He’s in much the same sorry bag as Nuttall in this respect, I suppose.
Oddly enough, the likes of Johnson (and Gove, to a lesser degree) don’t seem to have lied about their CVs at any point which is quite surprising when you consider how much else they have lied about.
The collection of liars, hard right market fundamentalists and nationalists who have conned enough of the electorate into voting for Brexit.
Richard Murphy for supporting Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership campaign in 2015?
I’ve apologised many times
And as I made clear, he adopted me, not the other way round
For our dear Richard:
“They say, best men are moulded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad”.
William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, Act 5 scene 1
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)
When Bill was talking about ‘most men’ (not all) he was of course omitting any Tory then as well as of now.
I agree with all the others mentioned here but I must mention Michael Gove whose free schools not only don’t seem to work but also seem to be sucking maninstream education provision dry as well as enabling central government to steal a public good (education land) from cash strapped local authorities to set up private free schools. A shameful mistake in my view.
Aren’t you being a little harsh on Ed Miliband for changing the rules?
It’s not his fault the membership voted the way they did.
It’s not his fault the right of the party couldn’t come up with a decent candidate.
He set a reasonable bar for a minimum number of MP nominations required to ensure each candidate would have a minimum level of support in the PLP.
At the time he was under pressure from the right of the party to change the rules to a new system that would remove the power of the unions. He introduced changes that the right of the party wanted and were happy with because under the new system David and not Ed would have won the previous leadership election.
At the time Blair’s number one fan in the world John Rentoul praised the new system introduced by Ed because he said it meant that Labour couldn’t elect left wing leader and the next Labour leader would be a Blairite.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/ed-miliband-s-labour-party-reforms-are-good-news-for-all-9162681.html
Then, perhaps, we should have apologies from those MPs who nominated Corbyn to “widen the debate” but without wanting him as leader. Not a mistake easily put right, though!
Yes most of those I can understand. But allowing the electorate to decide on whether to stay in or out of the EU is not an error ( that Cameron gambled his political future on it may well be an error ). Was the SNP losing the independence vote an ‘error’ ? No , it was just democracy in action whether or not all of us like the result. Both were close , both left about half their respective counties divided. We deserve better politicians but then we voted for them didn’t we – or some of us did. Time for us all to cease hand wringing and get on with making it all work. In the real world that is what most of us do.
FPTP democracy and referenda are basically incompatible