#LondonCalling: The gang that can't govern. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a CBSI on the world. I'm John Bachelor with my colleague Joseph Sternberg. |
| 0:08.0 | He's in London. And since the overwhelming success of labor in the most recent general election. |
| 0:14.2 | More than 400 seats or labor, so Cuzerstirmer is very well fixed for five years, maybe ten years. |
| 0:21.1 | There have been a series of headlines that have been puzzling. Labor was out of power |
| 0:26.2 | for 13 years. However, it was in the room, and it observed what does and does not work. |
| 0:32.2 | And I list quickly, free clothing from rich men |
| 0:35.8 | sounded like a bad idea to start with and then we had the raising of fees |
| 0:41.2 | on the private schools called public schools in Britain some |
| 0:44.8 | extravagant amount causing the well-to-do who voted labor to regret it. We also have |
| 0:51.8 | instances where they're proposing to take away the subsidies for |
| 0:57.7 | elderly people in the wintertime. I believe there are more. However, that's a good starter. |
| 1:03.2 | Have they strained it out, Joe? |
| 1:04.7 | Did they have a meeting and realize this wasn't going well? |
| 1:08.4 | No, I think the big theme, John, for this new Labor Party government in the UK has been chaos and indecision and |
| 1:15.0 | it's the gang that can't govern straight because they'd been out of power for 14 years |
| 1:20.0 | since the summer of 2010 and clearly they had lost a lot of the muscle memory for how to |
| 1:26.2 | govern and it's taking them a while to get their act together. |
| 1:31.1 | And some of this is run-of-the-mill scandal stuff where you think how could they be so stupid and yet politicians always are that stupid. |
| 1:39.0 | I mean that's kind of the takeaway of this kerfuffle over various gifts that Kieer-Stormer and his family may have received. |
| 1:46.8 | I'm not convinced that that really penetrates with a lot of voters because people have such low expectations of politicians. |
| 1:56.2 | There always seems to be a scandal like this going on. |
| 2:00.7 | You have some issues, like you mentioned this issue of you know private school tuition what they're actually doing is removing a tax break that tuition had previously enjoyed. |
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