Government is easy
Government is easy, when compared to being in opposition. You can do things and get the credit, no one asks you where the money is coming from and you can push things that a problem to the back of the queue and leave them to someone else.
So, all that money for new nurses and doctors seems to have appeared from no where, even though the fine print seems to show the training won’t even start for years, you get the headlines today.
But some things that are pushed to the back are truly worrying and should be dealt with now.
Just look at the state of state school buildings, the NAO has found that 24,000 school buildings in England are so run down that: “building collapse that causes death or injury is 'very likely'.
What the government is therefore doing, is hoping that no buildings collapse in the next 18 months or so, before the general election, and that the next government will either have to find the money or get the blame for the deaths.
This is not just shockingly cynical, children are going to die and no one in government is going to do anything to stop it.
And if Labour, or the Lib Dems or the SNP or anyone else was to raise this issue, the media and the government would bellow “Where are you going to find the money?”
But the better question is “Why hasn’t the government found the money, to save our children’s lives?”
Government is easy because no one asks about the stuff that ministers can push to the bottom of the pile, no one asks why they can’t find money, no one wants to write about a tragedy that has yet to happen.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media