Rishi Sunak's five promises: What progress has he made?
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The prime minister said these five priorities should be used to hold his government to account.

I still can’t believe one of them was “stop the boats”.

Of the others:

  • Halve inflation (still a long way to go)
  • Grow the economy (economy is board flat)
  • Cut the national debt (debt has now risen to 100% GDP)
  • Cut NHS waiting lists (waiting lists now even longer)
  • Carvex@vlemmy.netEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Maybe you guys should try another rich asshole who couldn’t care less about you surviving the next few years. We keep doing it in America and it’s going great…

  • ikapoz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    There’s a big difference between the deficit and debt there friend. UK debt is 100% of GDP, not great but not a catastrophe.

    • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Corrected, thanks. Too many billboards of Cameron going “I’ll cut the deficit” in 2009 rotted my brain, I think.

    • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukOPM
      5·
      1 year ago

      I’m assuming you mean to bleed ultra-right-wing tories away from the main party, splitting the vote?

      I’m still amazed they were permitted to make their logo an arrow pointing towards the box on the voting form.

        • Syldon@feddit.uk
          2·
          1 year ago

          Feels just like the promises Johnson pushed out. We would have been unlikely to see any of that lot.

        • Tenebris Nox@feddit.uk
          1·
          1 year ago

          The Brexit Party is a right-wing libertarian populist party organised out of Tufton Street. What we know about populists is that they make promises that large sections of the electorate generally want with no actual intention of carrying them out. Berlusconi’s whole career was built out of that in Italy. Farage has always insistedhe wants the NHS privatised.

          Their policies were always a chaotic mix of meas - intended to be so by a section of the ruling class who wants to see the UK a completely deregulated extreme neoliberal state where the free market is some Lovecraftian deity we worship and are terrified will slaughter us.

    • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
      4·
      1 year ago

      Nope sorry we will lurch from Tory to Labour to Tory to Labour again and again as long as first past the post is the voting system.

      Labour have made cute noises about electoral reform but I really can’t see them doing anything about this when in power. Suddenly it will be “not a priority at this point in time”.