Why is it that every mention of the UK government I hear in the news, I think "wow, those guys are absolute scum!".
They should just hand it back to the king, the democracy experiment has failed there.
They should just hand it back to the king, the democracy experiment has failed there.
Take this case: the law was enacted two years ago by a different government, the regulator follows the law as enacted, and yet no one cares about this little nuance.
In reality, it's a decent technocratic government trying to reverse a decade of mismanagement and fighting about five hundred fires at the same time. It's OK to good.
Labour & Lib Dems may have voted against the exact text presented to the house on a number of occasions, but it's well documented that they not only supported the general principle of the bill but wanted it to go further.
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2023-09-12/debates/818...
>I agree with the Minister that this is a groundbreaking Bill, but we must be clear that there are still gaps.
- Debbie Abrahams (Labour)
Democracy: everyone's somehow smarter than everyone else.
That's not how "enthusiastic support" looks like: https://votes.parliament.uk/votes/commons/division/1416