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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 1h

Sultana is only pro-imperialist when it comes to Putin

Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 2h

He does love a bandwagon

Greens this week, but Jezza is his real love

Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 2h

That’s not right

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 2h

Copies of the Beveridge Report were circulated to people serving in the forces around the world whilst the war was still on

It’s much easier to start everything immediately if you’ve had the previous 5 years in government and done the preparation work and public consultation in advance

Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t think that’s correct

Labour was in government from May 1940 and the welfare state was already being built during the war

The Beveridge Report was started in June 1941, published in November 1942. Both Labour and the Conservatives were committed to a post-war welfare state

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 5h

Any government has a limited supply of political bandwidth, of course some things get moved to later

They have 14 years of dire Tory mismanagement to clear up

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 5h

Quite

Far better to say “the Labour government is enacting its manifesto but I support another party so prefer that party’s policies”

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 5h

It is odd to only look at 4 negatives and not acknowledge 58 positives

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 5h

OK, but you still said things had been binned without any evidence that was the case

Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 6h

Great team

Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 6h

I am the same, I’m not a cheerleader and I’m happy to criticise things I disagree with

Debate has to be based on evidence

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 6h

That can happen, but the manifesto is clear that economic growth is considered the mechanism for increasing living standards and the economy is growing

Wages are actually increasing above inflation

Why did you say they’ve binned the commitment, who in government said that and when?

Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 6h

You specified they have binned reform of the National Care Service

You haven’t allowed time for such a service to be created

Funding in the current system is not reform

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 6h

But you say they have binned it

That is a positive claim by you, requiring some evidence

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 6h

You mean that’s not been achieved after 15 months of a parliament

That isn’t the same as binning a manifesto commitment is it?

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 6h

I didn’t make the claim that the commitment had been binned, the burden of proof is on you

There must have been a reason you picked that, what was that reason?

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 6h

Look at the OP. My point is that a list of things which either aren’t going up, or always go up, doesn’t really illustrate anything

Water privatisation is a complete failure, but that’s been the case for 40 years

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 6h

GP training numbers have increased, I’d be surprised if that doesn’t amount to thousands more over 5 years. Do you have evidence to the contrary?

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 6h

You can reform something which doesn’t exist yet

They say they intend to create a National Care Service. Again hard to say this has been binned 15 months into a 5 year term

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 7h

Living standards - the UK has the fastest growing economy in the G7

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 7h

The commitment to build 1.5m homes is over the entire parliament, so how is that binned when we are just 15 months in?

Planning reform is happening

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 7h

Pollution and worse climate change

Solar is Africa’s future, this fossil cack is a curse

Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 7h

Give us 3 examples, quoting the manifesto

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 7h

It seems extraordinarily unlikely

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 8h

Lazy lift cloggers, sod off

Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 8h

Watching someone stride into a lift, displacing a pushchair, and then stride onto an escalator at the next floor is just so aggravating. It’s not a luxury transport option for you to take when you don’t feel like walking down the other end of the platform

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