This exchange took place in the Lords on Tuesday.
I referred to this issue a few days ago.
Prem Sikka got none of the assurances he sought to ensure that small companies will be made properly accountable in the UK to support our honest small businesses and ensure tax is paid.
What is wrong with Labour? Are they really so keen on winning the support of those who abuse the law that anything goes with them?
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In effect ‘crime’ has managed to take over the UK Government
Yes.
Growth.
To Labour, ‘growth’ is the mantra at any cost – you can just imagine the Civil Service or an advisor tying up Labour in the perverse logic of growth. They sacked the head of the Competition and Markets Authority didn’t they because they feared that any moral stand would hurt their growth agenda?
They will of course deny it, but the Government does not mind if criminality and bad practice adds to growth.
Pathetic.
Your explanation rings true, Pilgrim, but the sad reality is that criminal and incompetent businesses get in the way of more honest and better run enterprises, which will be the true sources of long-term growth. ‘Good guys’ struggle in the face of competition from fly-by-night spivs, to the detriment of us all.
If I wanted a single word to sum up Labour’s performance so far it would be ‘dilatory’. For some reason it seems unwilling or unable to get on with even the simplest and most urgent tasks.
Traditionally I would be inclined to give governments the benefit of the doubt — I’m sure there are all sorts of hidden reasons why things take longer than I’d like — but with Starmer’s team it seems more like deliberate stalling. Failure to sort out the water industry is the most egregious example but there are many others, including this example of Companies House, but also Climate Change, the funding shortfalls in Local Government, the backlog in courts, overcrowding in prisons, and many more issues where the solutions are obvious and just need to be got on with.
Every business knows that if you don’t deal with issues as they arise, the problems stack up and multiply and eventually lead to failure. It seems that our current Government is heading that way.
“What is wrong with Labour? Are they really so keen on winning the support of those who abuse the law that anything goes with them?”
This is at least consistent with its foreign policy.
Sorry to post again, but more and more Labour looks like a husk of government. There seems to be nothing inside at all.
The new editor of the New Statesman spent six weeks following the PM around and interviewing him several times during the process.
Apparently, when asked, Starmer did not think there was anything in the government’s purview that demanded serious change.
This is at a time when the country is in desperate need of change and reformation on a multitude of fronts, from very large to small.
In the words of Private Fraser, “We’re doomed!”
And what does it say about the quality of our leading politicians as a class?
When looked at from his perspective, as a political appointee, sponsored/bought to serve his donors’ interests, nothing DOES need changing.
It’s only if you mistakenly think of him as a human being (with children) committed to using his gifts and good fortune to make the world a better place for his descendants, and those less privileged than him, through the opportunities available to him as a “Labour” PM with a large majority and 4 more years in power before he hands over to Reform UK Ltd. that then, maybe, there might be some major structural changes he could take to prevent our onward march into fascism and planetary disaster.
But as an obedient puppet, why change anything?
But Change was their campaign slogan – the title of their manifesto for ****’s sake!
https://labour.org.uk/change/
I absolutely give up, they’re beyond useless.