I don’t think governors in the provinces has any useful future, but undoubtedly what a large section of the population would like to see is a vigorous shaking of the cornflake packet to dislodge the current leftist elites bedded down in quangos, the BBC, the NHS and other semi-autonomous authorities that are infested with people determined to frustrate any more conservative movement and determined to enforce an unwanted progressive woke agenda.
The problem is that Johnson seems to have stopped shaking the packet and in fact seems to have been captured by the elites in place. I fear his shaking is confined to his domestic sphere.
You only have to look at local police commissioners to see what a waste of time governors would be. Hardly anyone votes for them and when in office they are either incompetent, useless, or worse.
Galeti Tavas
2 years ago
Labour have the answer to Boris’s Cornflake box – so it stops the big flakes always rising to the top, and the small ones always settling – just grind them all up to equal sized flour, and shake all you wish, and none are better off…so much more elegant than the current ‘Harrison Bergeron.’ system the Left are trying to implement.
… inequalities — of wealth, power and achievement — were inevitable. While one might seek to order society for the benefit of “the many not the few”, hierarchy will always be the result if the few make most of the difference.
IMO, therein lies the immorality for the social justice left. The inevitability of inequality is the anathema to an emotional, feelings-based nurturing mindset. The realisation of this inevitability grounds the belief in social constructionism, such that natural variation in ability does not exist and is social in origin and therefore unjust, to be remedied by diversity and equity doctrines.
I don’t think governors in the provinces has any useful future, but undoubtedly what a large section of the population would like to see is a vigorous shaking of the cornflake packet to dislodge the current leftist elites bedded down in quangos, the BBC, the NHS and other semi-autonomous authorities that are infested with people determined to frustrate any more conservative movement and determined to enforce an unwanted progressive woke agenda.
The problem is that Johnson seems to have stopped shaking the packet and in fact seems to have been captured by the elites in place. I fear his shaking is confined to his domestic sphere.
You only have to look at local police commissioners to see what a waste of time governors would be. Hardly anyone votes for them and when in office they are either incompetent, useless, or worse.
Labour have the answer to Boris’s Cornflake box – so it stops the big flakes always rising to the top, and the small ones always settling – just grind them all up to equal sized flour, and shake all you wish, and none are better off…so much more elegant than the current ‘Harrison Bergeron.’ system the Left are trying to implement.
Surely that should be “Grind them all down.”
Nils barstado carborundum
… inequalities — of wealth, power and achievement — were inevitable. While one might seek to order society for the benefit of “the many not the few”, hierarchy will always be the result if the few make most of the difference.
IMO, therein lies the immorality for the social justice left. The inevitability of inequality is the anathema to an emotional, feelings-based nurturing mindset. The realisation of this inevitability grounds the belief in social constructionism, such that natural variation in ability does not exist and is social in origin and therefore unjust, to be remedied by diversity and equity doctrines.
Right. As they used to say in the old Soviet Union, everyone is equal under Communism, but some are more equal than others.
Following Sir Philip Barton’s performance yesterday as Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Office, a timely article on our useless rotten elites .