It is indisputable that the UK faces significant economic and social crises.<\/p>\n
It is also beyond dispute that there are substantial failings in the UK\u2019s public services, whether due to underfunding of many of them or institutional misogyny in police forces.<\/p>\n
In the face of this the government has three major legislative proposals at present.<\/p>\n
One is to create impose a new and costly law aimed at preventing voter fraud, which is a crime that hardly exists.<\/p>\n
Another will allow action against those who might organise or take part in protests that have yet to happen.<\/p>\n
The third is require minimum service level guarantees from those who plan strikes in the public sector when the government cannot offer such guarantees on any other day.<\/p>\n
It is as if we have a government that has noticed and understood its inability to legislate for the real world and has decided to legislate for a parallel universe instead.<\/p>\n
This is, in other words, a government so detached from reality that it now addresses issues arising in its own fantasy.<\/p>\n
I too have a dream. It is that this government be gone. The problem is that I am aware that this is unlikely to happen for almost two years as yet. Government for another place, time and real-world scenario will continue until then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"