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Yesterday the government announced that public funds will not now be used to further shore up MPs pension funds. Given the public’s anger over MPs expenses, that news didn’t come as much of a surprise!
This morning, they announced that they were dropping some of their education policies. That reminded me that the government has done a considerable number of u-turns. Think of their changed positions on Gurkha soldiers, the Inquiry into the Iraq war, the 10% tax rate, free postage of parcels to soldiers serving abroad, the scaling back of plans to build new warships ...
The list culled from memory seemed endless as, indeed, this turned out to be when out of interest I Googled ‘government u-turns’ on my computer. I was confronted with a choice of 871,000 pages (yes, that's 871,000 pages!) of information about issues on which this government has changed its mind and performed a u-turn.
The number of pages to be found on the subject of government u-turns speaks for itself. Boy, do we need an election!
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Yesterday the government announced that public funds will not now be used to further shore up MPs pension funds. Given the public’s anger over MPs expenses, that news didn’t come as much of a surprise!
This morning, they announced that they were dropping some of their education policies. That reminded me that the government has done a considerable number of u-turns. Think of their changed positions on Gurkha soldiers, the Inquiry into the Iraq war, the 10% tax rate, free postage of parcels to soldiers serving abroad, the scaling back of plans to build new warships ...
The list culled from memory seemed endless as, indeed, this turned out to be when out of interest I Googled ‘government u-turns’ on my computer. I was confronted with a choice of 871,000 pages (yes, that's 871,000 pages!) of information about issues on which this government has changed its mind and performed a u-turn.
The number of pages to be found on the subject of government u-turns speaks for itself. Boy, do we need an election!
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