http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28174126
I would have thought Cameron would be a bit more wary after Coulson.
I would have thought Cameron would be a bit more wary after Coulson.
I mentioned this a couple of days ago. It's something the tories do all the time, try to put their mates into influential positions no matter how shit they are.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28174126
I would have thought Cameron would be a bit more wary after Coulson.
Covid has helped make Jenrick one of the longest serving housing ministers of the modern age. He’s approaching 12 months in the job, and we’ve been averaging about one a year for well over a decade. No wonder the nation‘s housing policy is a shambles.
It’s just classic conservatism, which is purely about defending privilege, plus Thatcherite entrepreneurialism. Show a bit of initiative! Spot the opportunities! Find the gaps in the brown envelope market!
Their 'housing policy' is defend land owners at all costs and throw everyone else under the bus.Housing policy?
WE DON''T WANT TO GIVE MARXISTS DOE
I'm not smearing entrepreneurialism, but the fact is it's been used to justify all kinds of ___ery over the years. Take it out of a larger moral framework, as modern Toryism does, and this is what you get. "Just get out there and work your connections my boy!"I think it is entirely unfair to smear entrepreneurialism. Vast numbers of perfectly decent businesses exist, pay their taxes and provide great employment opportunities etc. I’d certainly run miles from anywhere where the means of production was state owned. I do however firmly believe in fair taxation and contributing to high quality state infrastructure and services, as do huge numbers of businesses big and small. For me that’s not just getting the homeless off the street, making the NHS work properly etc, I mean top-tier museums, art galleries, cycle lanes etc etc. Take pride, do it right, and tax appropriately. I’m obviously a small business owner, as are many of my friends, and we all detest the Tory penny-pinching, corruption and sleaze. Don’t tar us all with that brush!
I'm not smearing entrepreneurialism, but the fact is it's been used to justify all kinds of ___ery over the years. Take it out of a larger moral framework, as modern Toryism does, and this is what you get. "Just get out there and work your connections my boy!"
IMO it's still better than building a moral framework around it, as New Labour did ("social entrepreneurship", yuck). But that's probably just me.
Again I just see something entirely different. For me entrepreneurialism just means forming a band, a record label, building a recording studio, setting yourself up as a games developer, a craft brewery, a baker, plumber or whatever you fancy. The 1980s Thatcher ‘Enterprise Allowance Scheme’ remains (along with the BBC Micro and computer teaching initiative), the only Conservative policy I wholeheartedly support. It needs a proper reboot. We collectively need to help people through the initial stages of doing their own thing.
Now, more than ever in the days of mass automation and the increasing obsolescence of mass labour, small craft/artisan businesses are the way forward. Any credible government should be all over this and not remain shackled to the mill owner vs. unionised mill-worker mindset of the past. Kill the two-headed beast!
PS FWIW by supporting a ‘universal basic income’ the Lib Dems (assuming Layla Moran gets the job) are way, way ahead of Labour on this.