Call me cynical but I am starting to think alot of these Westminster "failures" (test and trace, HS2 etc) are not, in fact, failures....
Yes they "failed" at what we were told they were for....
But if you flip it on to its head and think the whole purpose was to syphon public money into private hands, then these are resounding successes.
It makes sense of it, and the appalling mis management.
I am thinking Westminster is beyond redemption. Scotland must get its independence as a priority.
@94caf711 And the "migration crisis". 85+% of asylum claims succeed, but there's money to be made with a convoluted overloaded bureaucracy and a need to house the poor folks stuck in limbo.
Public money handed over to landlords, hoteliers and consulting firms, and a ready-made scapegoat to distract attention from utter ministerial incompetence. An absolute twofer! What's not to like?
@94caf711 it’s not just the U.K. same shit happens in The Netherlands too. I don’t believe that the people running the country are *this* incompetent so if that’s the case, deliberate mismanagement is the only reasonable answer.
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