Labour: always the wrong sort of choice

Here’s a brilliant example of a government repudiating its own record. This piece in the Guardian could be summarised down to,

“Labour OFFICIAL: We fucked it up. We got it wrong.”

However the more choice version is that Liam Byrne now admits that the choices Labour has offered have been somewhat empty.

“Byrne makes clear that the new approach is a big change from that adopted over the past 10 years under which Labour said it was offering the consumers of public services a choice. He says that has often been "an empty choice".”

"We need to give people real choices by locking down rights and entitlements and giving people fast means of redress ... In recent years power was basically pointing in the wrong direction. It was pointing up to senior civil servants and ministers in Whitehall and not pointing out to people. That helped create in too many places a culture of heads down, get the job done, deliver on the targets and tick the boxes."

A government making a big change in its policies after 12 years in power says that what has gone before was wrong. Well, we’d certainly agree with him on that.

It’s nice to see Labour are at last beginning to understand how badly its policies have done. Shame they didn’t realise it for Baby P, Staffordshire hospital and all the other “isolated” disasters that have occurred because of this governments ability to blame the staff rather than run services. Central credit and local blame again.

We, and other bloggers in fields of health, teaching, police, army and so on, will continue to help them to see exactly where they are going wrong.

The country will administer euthanasia and the (utterly undeserved) last rights to this dishonest, decrepit and disreputable government as soon as it possibly can.