everything in this country is on its knees, stop telling us what we already know and start telling us what you plan to do.
ferrel_hadley on
We have had 1.1% growth for 16 years. Rising costs of debts, medical costs and pensions.
We have had a very steady rise in the amount the state has taken as tax to spend in order to help meet some of those costs. But everything that is not flashy and in the high turnout demographics concern list has been cut way beyond the bone.
There is a lot of this going round the developed world.
Labour has a couple of years to get the one big sector with real pent up demand, housing, going. And to instil enough confidence to get companies spending on things that raise productivity. That is the sort of last narrow gap we can squeeze ourselves back to being a growth economy.
Provided there is not a big economic crisis in Europe. Or China just spins totally out of control.
Running 700 000 migrants a year hoping that those will boost headline GDP and make things look better has been a social catastrophe. The full consequences are only now bleeding in through the costs of housing, rents, strained services and on and on.
The chickens of the last 50 years of economic policies are coming home to roost.
Johnny_Wilde_001 on
Right. We know this already. What’s his plan to fix it?
He hasn’t got one because he’s a giant flapping muppet hole, flapping in the breeze attacking the vulnerable when there are other cuts he could make to fill the black holes he knows and apparently, doesn’t know of.
As for the crimes, well, that’s by design.
BeardMonk1 on
The NCA are like many other parts of the civil service and Policing that deal with very specialised, very traumatising and often very high tech areas of crime, defense and security. They need highly skilled resilient permanent members of staff who are treated well.
Sadly the public sector just doesn’t pay the sort of salary that would attract and keep staff of the right level and caliber. You could be trained in image analysis and the use of AI. What would you rather do, do work for Google and get a good salary, benefits in a non harrowing environment or take those skill to a police force or NCA where you could be extracting, reviewing and grading Child Sexual Abuse images all day every day for about £20-25k pa……
The CS needs to pay the sort of salary where it can retain the skilled staff it needs, rather than having to rely on paying contractors or outsourcing technical roles. And that will take long term investment.
The whole of Policing needs rebuilding from the ground up. Its not just officer numbers. its about tech an systems that need massive overhaul to bring them even up to a present day “ok”, deal with the volumes of data Forces have to work with and then not to mention the tidal wave of issues that AI, deep fakes will be bringing.
Prize_Driver7757 on
What we need to do is give more money to Ukraine or Israel that’s bound to help our economic problems, or we could house loads of illegal immigrants in hotels that cost millions every day. I can’t for the life of me fathom out why our country/society is crumbling around us🤔
LostInTheEtheral on
It’s time to get rid of the lifetime prisoners in jail with no hope of release.
Surely we can find some other use for them right I mean we do need organ donors.
littlechefdoughnuts on
The NCA has never really had the money or power it needs compared to its counterparts in other countries, so unfortunately unsurprising.
ApologiseMeowMeow on
Tired of these cunts constantly pointing out what isn’t working rather than tell us how they’ll fix it.
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everything in this country is on its knees, stop telling us what we already know and start telling us what you plan to do.
We have had 1.1% growth for 16 years. Rising costs of debts, medical costs and pensions.
We have had a very steady rise in the amount the state has taken as tax to spend in order to help meet some of those costs. But everything that is not flashy and in the high turnout demographics concern list has been cut way beyond the bone.
There is a lot of this going round the developed world.
Labour has a couple of years to get the one big sector with real pent up demand, housing, going. And to instil enough confidence to get companies spending on things that raise productivity. That is the sort of last narrow gap we can squeeze ourselves back to being a growth economy.
Provided there is not a big economic crisis in Europe. Or China just spins totally out of control.
Running 700 000 migrants a year hoping that those will boost headline GDP and make things look better has been a social catastrophe. The full consequences are only now bleeding in through the costs of housing, rents, strained services and on and on.
The chickens of the last 50 years of economic policies are coming home to roost.
Right. We know this already. What’s his plan to fix it?
He hasn’t got one because he’s a giant flapping muppet hole, flapping in the breeze attacking the vulnerable when there are other cuts he could make to fill the black holes he knows and apparently, doesn’t know of.
As for the crimes, well, that’s by design.
The NCA are like many other parts of the civil service and Policing that deal with very specialised, very traumatising and often very high tech areas of crime, defense and security. They need highly skilled resilient permanent members of staff who are treated well.
Sadly the public sector just doesn’t pay the sort of salary that would attract and keep staff of the right level and caliber. You could be trained in image analysis and the use of AI. What would you rather do, do work for Google and get a good salary, benefits in a non harrowing environment or take those skill to a police force or NCA where you could be extracting, reviewing and grading Child Sexual Abuse images all day every day for about £20-25k pa……
The CS needs to pay the sort of salary where it can retain the skilled staff it needs, rather than having to rely on paying contractors or outsourcing technical roles. And that will take long term investment.
The whole of Policing needs rebuilding from the ground up. Its not just officer numbers. its about tech an systems that need massive overhaul to bring them even up to a present day “ok”, deal with the volumes of data Forces have to work with and then not to mention the tidal wave of issues that AI, deep fakes will be bringing.
What we need to do is give more money to Ukraine or Israel that’s bound to help our economic problems, or we could house loads of illegal immigrants in hotels that cost millions every day. I can’t for the life of me fathom out why our country/society is crumbling around us🤔
It’s time to get rid of the lifetime prisoners in jail with no hope of release.
Surely we can find some other use for them right I mean we do need organ donors.
The NCA has never really had the money or power it needs compared to its counterparts in other countries, so unfortunately unsurprising.
Tired of these cunts constantly pointing out what isn’t working rather than tell us how they’ll fix it.