What ends are justified by what means in this instance?Zhivago wrote:'The ends do justify the means, Diggers. Don't let those commie bastards tell you otherwise." Said Rupert to his pal Diggers.Digby wrote:It's not like the Labour party spotted this issue coming either, both leaderships despite the matter being spoken about at various points by a number of backbench MPs have badly let down large numbers. Yes the Tories are the government and thus more responsible, but a decent opposition might at other times have helped avoid this crisis arising.Zhivago wrote:
Well given the recent propensity for your party to round up and deport our own citizens, the fascist comparison is not as far off the mark as it used to be.
I don't believe for one moment what's happened was the intention of May or Rudd, nor the wider Tory party. So maybe they are facists depending on how one grades such things, but not over this issue, in this instance they've simply shown themselves incompetent over and over, and so sadly have the official opposition
The Windrush situation is a national disgrace, I'm only saying in looking at what's happened that both the government and the official opposition missed this was a serious problem in the offing, and had either (and ideally both) been more up to the job we could have avoided much of this.
I've long thought there's far too little serious review of government policy, and while I do blame them more given it's their policy and they're obviously best placed to bring about change it doesn't mean I don't want the opposition party to be seriously reviewing what happens on the back of policy changes.