What Drakeford is missing is that it doesn't matter that Farage is public school. This is not a reliable turn off for voters. It's how Farage comes across. Like Johnson he's posing as a man of the people and with all his critiques of establishment politics and 'I get your grievances' rhetoric, will probably succeed unless the opposition wises up fast.
Please ignore if inaccurate. I recall Blair plus the excellent David King announced five new nuclear power stations in 2004? £100 billion?
I think Cameron must have cancelled those and instead went for a vanity transit for the same money? Must have been the dodgiest cost-benefit analysis in British Empire history. If of disbelief read Goldratt's "The Goal" ?1987?. A perfect case study of a vanity project taking preference over an overall system upgrade.
Everyone in politics should be firce read CP Snows 1952 'Science and Givernment', nothing has changed - ask Milliband?
As government has become increasingly more technical, more scientific and vastly more complex and complicated the required qualifications to 'run things' has not changed, rhetoric excluded. There is no trend to running government QUALITY Assurrance standards. It is a while but I think it was 2012 that ISO came out with standards specifically targeted at public institutions and bodies.
What the public does not get for its votes is professional administration at the top
Does it matter if Labour lose Wales? Labour lost Scotland and nearly saw it detach itself from the UK. Time will tell if Wales is able to run its NHS and improve its school results, no matter which party is in power. Most of its MPs are Welsh and will have the best interests of Wales as their first priority. I look forward to the results of the PR election as a guide to what method to choose for Westminster.
Time is slipping away but it’s not lost. It’s no good hoping Reform slip up, surely the goal is to expose and drive the core agenda (improve NHs and education and not be distracted by other things) so there is a positive message. Hard work and trust and positive regular comms needed I feel .
Jason Cowley has written about Farage on a number of occasions providing useful insights. I am less persuaded by the assessment that Zia Yusuf is more than a 'useful idiot' to Reform/Farage after hearing him interviewed on R4's "Today". He answered - incoherently - but not so differently than many other political interviewees working from their barely concealed 'lines to take' crib notes. Yusuf told listeners that Sarah Pochin "is a brilliant MP" - an astonishing claim to make after less than 6 weeks in the job. But perhaps he'll share Reform's canvassing notes from her by-election to reveal that the key issue raised on the constituency's doorsteps was to ban the burqa - in which case she is being a good and faithful servant of the people. Does that 'brilliance' make a Muslim - observant or nominal - feel comfortable? And how should the rest of us feel if this is a key talking point or putative policy?
What Drakeford is missing is that it doesn't matter that Farage is public school. This is not a reliable turn off for voters. It's how Farage comes across. Like Johnson he's posing as a man of the people and with all his critiques of establishment politics and 'I get your grievances' rhetoric, will probably succeed unless the opposition wises up fast.
Please ignore if inaccurate. I recall Blair plus the excellent David King announced five new nuclear power stations in 2004? £100 billion?
I think Cameron must have cancelled those and instead went for a vanity transit for the same money? Must have been the dodgiest cost-benefit analysis in British Empire history. If of disbelief read Goldratt's "The Goal" ?1987?. A perfect case study of a vanity project taking preference over an overall system upgrade.
Everyone in politics should be firce read CP Snows 1952 'Science and Givernment', nothing has changed - ask Milliband?
As government has become increasingly more technical, more scientific and vastly more complex and complicated the required qualifications to 'run things' has not changed, rhetoric excluded. There is no trend to running government QUALITY Assurrance standards. It is a while but I think it was 2012 that ISO came out with standards specifically targeted at public institutions and bodies.
What the public does not get for its votes is professional administration at the top
Does it matter if Labour lose Wales? Labour lost Scotland and nearly saw it detach itself from the UK. Time will tell if Wales is able to run its NHS and improve its school results, no matter which party is in power. Most of its MPs are Welsh and will have the best interests of Wales as their first priority. I look forward to the results of the PR election as a guide to what method to choose for Westminster.
Time is slipping away but it’s not lost. It’s no good hoping Reform slip up, surely the goal is to expose and drive the core agenda (improve NHs and education and not be distracted by other things) so there is a positive message. Hard work and trust and positive regular comms needed I feel .
Labour has lost Britain.
Jason Cowley has written about Farage on a number of occasions providing useful insights. I am less persuaded by the assessment that Zia Yusuf is more than a 'useful idiot' to Reform/Farage after hearing him interviewed on R4's "Today". He answered - incoherently - but not so differently than many other political interviewees working from their barely concealed 'lines to take' crib notes. Yusuf told listeners that Sarah Pochin "is a brilliant MP" - an astonishing claim to make after less than 6 weeks in the job. But perhaps he'll share Reform's canvassing notes from her by-election to reveal that the key issue raised on the constituency's doorsteps was to ban the burqa - in which case she is being a good and faithful servant of the people. Does that 'brilliance' make a Muslim - observant or nominal - feel comfortable? And how should the rest of us feel if this is a key talking point or putative policy?
The quicker the electorate wakes up to the emptiness of Farage the better it will be for political discourse - and the country’s future.