A brave civil servant telling it like it is - maybe something that more of our politicans could aspire to

 

Obviously the right will see the clip above as a woke anti brexit liberal elite blob attack on their tremendously successful delivery record since Brexit.

Whereas I see it as a remarkable brave civil servant telling it like it is. 

As a reminder to all politicians, that is what public service is about. Speaking truth to power.

Some of the politicians still seem to get that.  But some of them behave as though public service is pimarily a route to increasing their own wealth.

Speaking truth to power is what public service is about.  Even if it means you don't get that promotion, or that honour, or that seat in the Lords, or that Executive Director/Consultant post in the private sector. 

And the right and the left don't really want to talk about Brexit because - you know - its water under the bridge and so what. 

For the right - they don't want to admit their lack of delivering the "take back control" opportunities. 

For the left - they don't want to talk about Brexit because - with a 48% to 52% ish split on the Brexit vote, they can't get beyond their fear of the electoral maths to be able to say the whole Brexit thing was a con. 

And on immigration neither the left or the right seem able to engage in a sensible debate.

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Some politicians tell us to fear immigrants as the cause for most of our unhappiness.

Yet the stranger, the immigant, has always being part of what made our economy and democracy and country strong - for centuries and centuries. 

Given that we have an ageing population, the sensible debate on immigration is - given our care services and other resourcing needs -  how much immigration do we need to fill the gaps - and can our communities live with the consequencies of that level of immigration?

Neither do any of the parties want to talk about the reality that - if you choose to not believe in ridiculous UK economy growth forecasts, or the same moronic forecasts on how we'll get the tax dodgers - then the reality is we're all in for a for a bit of a financial shock when the election is over.

On the no more taxes front - to get you ready for the fiscal reality that will eventually play out after the election  ...

- either we can't afford to have everything we want - so according to our individual economic wealth we'll be able to ride that storm out (look at the increasingly no. of people who can afford it, having operations in the private health sector) OR for the 1 in 6 of us who have effectively no or little savings - we'll be stuffed ...

- and/or somebody will have to get taxed more (according to the right and the left thats not income tax, national insurance or pensioners paying tax) so that leaves only a few options (apart from not increasing tax thresholds so inflation moves more and more of us ionto higher tax brackets)

- I've concluded that the current 2024 election topics of debate between the parties appear to be pitched at such a basic pureile level that the only thing they indicate is how low the talent level in our politicians has sunk, or how low their ambition to have an honest and thoughtful public debate has fallen.