On Wednesday, 28 October 2020 16:46:53 UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Vir Campestris wrote:
On 28/10/2020 13:11, Andrew wrote:
On 28/10/2020 07:24, Bob Martin wrote:
On 27 Oct 2020 at 09:18:58, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
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"Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They
always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic
of them"

Margaret Thatcher
But it takes a Tory government to spend tens of billions with nothing
to show for it.
(Track and trace anyone?)


And a Labour government to quadruple the NHS budget between 2001 and
2010 (without having a *clear* plan of what was needed), including
spending tens of billions on a (doomed to become) failed computer
system.

snip

I can't say I have much faith in either of them.

Boris is a journalist with an education in the classics. His health
minister is an economist. The leader of the opposition is a lawyer. None
of them have a scientific education. It's no wonder we're in such a mess.

A politician doesn't need to be an expert in his own right. Just know who
to take advice from.

There's one fatal flaw with that idea. If you're not an expert you really don't know who to listen to.


NT