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 Strikes - Manatee

>> I'm not sure that makes sense, you think the gov is trying to purposely lose
>> the next GE? Or you think its a tactic that they think can win it?
>>

I don't think they are trying to lose it, but if they do then then the upside for them - and this is the reality of seeing things politically - is that Labour inherits Mission Impossible. Not much of what they're doing makes sense to me but I think hope is alive for them that "something will turn up" even while defeat, or at least absence of victory in the form of a majority, seems more likely.

They realise that they can't fix most of what's broken, apart perhaps from getting inflation down because the forecasts are that it will drop below 3% anyway. They have absolutely nothing to be proud of so have pretty well committed to the culture war thing by the look of it, conjuring up general wokery, "lefty lawyers", etc. as enemies of the people.

A year from now there will still be small boats, huge NHS waiting lists, and water companies dumping sewage. So they'll roll the dice, crank up the smear campaigns and hope Labour cocks up. They'll shoot as many of Labour's foxes as possible (e.g. improving childcare, although bizarrely most of what they have promised on that won't arrive this side of a general election).

On things like the doctor strike they seem to be trying to smash the BMA, perhaps in homage to Thatcher for smashing the NUM, although the situation is not in any way similar. If they succeed then I suppose they hope "grinding down the unions" and by association Labour will please their target market, if not, well there's not much more to lose.

It's a sort of hope for the best, prepare for the worst situation I think. Planning doesn't come into it much and I think the decisions are all now political - as they tend to be in the later part of a parliamentary term even in normal times. i.e. they are more focused on how it looks, than when/whether they solve the doctors' pay dispute.
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