General Chat

OFG You pick out some interesting news stories (to me anyway).

Our confrontational style of government means that all initiatives started by one Government are overturned by next.

In an area I worked closely in (funding of young people to get into work and business development) we built up contacts with Manpower Services Commission, Ditribution Industry Training Board, HCITB etc. Then their levies ceased and they were disbanded or emasculated. Schemes like YTS, Sure Start, you name it, flourished and then were banged on head or emasculated.

Not sure what is on the agenda now. Is it modern apprentices? But, whatever Gove and Cable decide in education and occupational training, it will be overturned by next Government (possibly a UKIP/Respect coalition of all the talents with Neil Hamilton and George Galloway steering the ship in harmony). :-0 ;-)

I think Wales has a good opportunity to have a run at these things because it is likely to be Labour-led for the next 50 years probably. But Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru) and Andrew R T Davies (Conservative leader in Senedd) are both calling the Labour Government lazy in areas of policy.

All Governments listen to ordinary people.

They just choose to have selective hearing.

Roy

Probally ,,,,,,,then do just what it thinks is right. :-P

I read the article below in The Independent this morning, so is the government saying firstly, that they introduce polices not knowing whether they will work; secondly that after ignoring the findings of nearly every public consultation that has ever been commissioned they are now going to listen to ordinary people; and thirdly will this mean we can save a fortune and get rid of the current decision makers - The Cabinet ;-)

Well after listening to Vince Cable on The Sunday Politics Show on BBC1 yesterday I was left feeling that no one in "The Cabinet or The Treasury" knew, I need to be polite on here, their backside from their elbow ;-)

Today the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander and Policy Minister Oliver Letwin will announce that the Government is to try "Crowd Sourcing" key policies to see "What Works." The evidence based guidelines will examine which initiatives work in bid to save £2bn a year.

After years of policy disasters and U-turns for ministers of all parties, the Coalition is to establish the first network of bodies to examine which government initiatives actually work and which do not.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-to-try-crowd-sourcing-key-policies-to-see-what-works-8518515.html#disqus_thread