I genuinely don’t understand everyone complaining about u-turns. Setting aside that this isn’t really a u-turn, they’re still doing it, just won’t be mandatory.
Would you rather a government that dogmatically sticks to every single idea they have regardless of public opinion, or a government that changes its policies in response to feedback?
My issue is the government coming up with ideas that everyone can see from the outset are doomed to fail, for seemingly arbritray reasons, and then rolling them back when the inevitable happens.
Winter fuel being the most glaring: we need to show the banks we’re fiscally responsible, we then have no material change in how the banks view the government but have a minor shift in the forecasts for 5 years time, we’ve done it, we’re fiscally responsible now so pensioners can have their £500 back.
Yeah, I’d rather they did better in the first place too. But I’m not going to complain when they finally do the right thing. That’s just going to lead to them not changing unpopular policies at all.
I genuinely don’t understand everyone complaining about u-turns. Setting aside that this isn’t really a u-turn, they’re still doing it, just won’t be mandatory.
Would you rather a government that dogmatically sticks to every single idea they have regardless of public opinion, or a government that changes its policies in response to feedback?
My issue is the government coming up with ideas that everyone can see from the outset are doomed to fail, for seemingly arbritray reasons, and then rolling them back when the inevitable happens.
Winter fuel being the most glaring: we need to show the banks we’re fiscally responsible, we then have no material change in how the banks view the government but have a minor shift in the forecasts for 5 years time, we’ve done it, we’re fiscally responsible now so pensioners can have their £500 back.
Since 2008 the banks themselves have had to prove they are fiscally responsible which I very doubt they are.
Yeah, I’d rather they did better in the first place too. But I’m not going to complain when they finally do the right thing. That’s just going to lead to them not changing unpopular policies at all.