(12-09-2020, 11:46 AM)Derek Hardballs Wrote: These are my main opinions on this board..
- 1, Brexit was a shit idea with no tangible benefits for most of the population1
2, I can see little or no improvements in society since 2010
3, Cronyism is rife within the government
1,Your Opinion. Yet to be determined in the short or long term.
2, For starters.
UK carbon emissions reduced by 29%.
£136.5 billion reduction in the country’s deficit. (holds good for when you originally posed the question)
A reduction of 1,147,000 in unemployment among people aged 16 and over.
Ban on Letting agent fees.
Homeless Reduction Bill Act 2017, (A private members bill presented by Conservative MP Bob Blackman.)
Parents who lose a child will receive two weeks' paid bereavement leave.
Starting to undo ‘Beeching’ cuts to the railways.
Ban on exporting plastic waste.
Everyone permanently injured in NI trouble will receive compensation / pensions for life. Bringing forward the ban on petrol and diesel car sales.
Tree planting has risen significantly.
Banning the sale of new Leasehold houses.
Abolishing of VAT on sanitary products. (Couldn’t be done in E.U.)
Abolishing V.A.T on books and academic journals.
Neonatal pay for parents of premature babies.
Larger toilets for disabled compulsory from 2021.
More Afghan interpreters allowed to settle.
Law to make it illegal to buy crops grown on illegally felled rainforests.
So Tunna Blair signed up to the UN aid spending target of 0.5% of GDP. In 2005. But it was only achieved by 2013 under the Cameron led (Tory) government.
An extra £40 million for U.K. environment.
Farm subsidies to be taken off the largest and richest landowners and paid to encourage ‘greener’ measures such as more hedges, trees and wet lands. Under the outgoing EU system, farmers got taxpayers' money based on the amount of land they farm. So, in many cases, that has meant the richer the farmers, the bigger the grant they get. The new system, named Environmental Land Management (ELM), will pay farmers if they prevent floods, plant woods and help wildlife.
3, Already demonstrated on a previous thread that that is certainly nothing unique to this incarnation of government. (Study many of W.S. Gilberts librettos and lyrics. Especially ‘When I was a Lad’ particularly the fourth verse and that was written in 1878!