Quote of the day 10th May 2022

"I disagree with many policies of this government, but that doesn't mean I feel the need to disagree with everything. Like many I have become weary of the bad faith attacks, the inability to offer even a soupcon of credit for policy successes, the exhausting criticisms which do nothing for democracy and everything to inflame the cynicism which has become a democratic disease. The truth is that in the whole, and with only a few exceptions, ministers did their best in unenviable circumstances.

And to think otherwise is not a reflection of them, but a truly devastating one of us."

(Matthew Syed, conclusion of an article in the Sunday Times at the weekend - see article posted yesterday evening for more detail and link.)

Comments

Anonymous said…
He was a Labour candidate in the 2001 General Election, so definitely not a Tory. But he has written two books on the power of positive thinking, so no surprise he bemoans negativity in politics. Doubtless he thinks the Leader of the Opposition should be more supportive of the government, missing the point that Opposition is precisely what oppositions are supposed to do - and have always done, down the ages.
Chris Whiteside said…
He supports positive thinking? Well good for him.

It's possible to critical of the things you think the government has done wrong and hold it to account - and he regularly does in his newspaper columns - without assuming that everything they do is wrong, let alone evil.

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