Nearholmer wrote: ↑3 Oct 2022, 10:20am
Another clutch of incompetents, failing to use cabinet government properly IMO.
How on earth they thought it a good idea to go public with a mega-not-budget of that kind without sitting down as a cabinet, discussing the proposals, spending a few days analysing likely political impact and implications for departmental spending, reconvening, refining, then announcing I cannot conceive. She should have made ruddy sure the implications were understood, and that all her generals were dipped in the blood of the decisions.
They could have announced the “take a payday loan to stave off the worst of gas bills” part earlier than the rest, and if that had been done soberly they probably wouldn’t have spooked everyone, and would have relieved many.
I don’t like their policies, but the bit that really gets me is how cr@p they are at the bare basics of management ……. It’s totally staggering!
Specific tax changes to be announced in budgets are not traditionally discussed in cabinet. But policies and approaches are, and should be.
But apart from that: totally agree.
Truss has a lot of Ministerial experience by the standards of recently appointed Prime Ministers. But of course most recently in Johnson's dysfunctional government.
I imagine that Truss and Kwarteng think that they had discussed this at length... but that was in settings that were non-governmental...
These policies hadn't suffered the trial by fire of getting into a manifesto and surviving a general election campaign.
And then they put themselves further at risk by sacking the Permanent Secretary and attempting to bypass the OBR.
Transparency and scrutiny are as important to democracy as electoral systems!
Jonathan