To be sick of people being so negative about the things Burnham is putting into place

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Nobody thinks they’ll fix everything but he’s doing small things that can be actioned quickly and will drastically improve aspects of our lives that have got worse over the last two decades - parking fines, music on trains, vaping on public transport. They’re all small things, yes, but they will make things a little better.

He’s not said anywhere that he thinks that doing these things will save Britain. So why are people acting like he has said that?

No

They are getting on with these 100+ important thing too.

These smaller gestures are important too.

Exactly. I waited 50 minutes on a station platform yesterday, There were several no smoking/ no vaping signs but do you think anyone took any notice?!

That’s half the story. A record number of services were delivered over that time, but was outpaced by an increase in the number of referrals. This is because there are more GP appointments being offered, more patients being seen. A victim of their own success there.

You’re right it’s not their remit to stop it. Especially not the bus drivers, it wouldn’t work anyway as they’ll have to concentrate on their own job. It’s meant to be local police or transport safety officers (not sure where they are).

I find vapers the worst. Even in school playgrounds at pick up. I think to my self you wouldn’t light up here so why vape. Mind boggling.

Unemployment is down.

Job vacancies are down.

The natural conclusion is that people are getting jobs and staying in them.

I agree about small things being improved. Not sure all of those planned will be effective, the one about parking rip-offs will be a start though as the AA/RAC have pointed out, not far enough.

A simple one would be ending the time change twice a year. Either BST year round or GMT year round would save lives- Dr Hannah Fry pointed out the medical impacts, and in the four years of BST year round, car crashes in November reduced.

The issue is though itll be dark until 10am if the clocks don’t change.

Conservative, and labour before them and conservatives before that etc. And Sub-prime mortgages and Brexit and Covid and Ukraine and Iran. The instability across the world in the last 20 years with no real effort to mitigate any of it has got us to where we are, and yet Burnham is expected to fix it in a fortnight.

And it impacts the north of Scotland way more than the south of England.

It really depends where in the UK you live. Aberdeen or Andover.

Then I am surprised you think that it will be so easy to implement or that all it will take is a couple of fines for kids to comply or even that kids are the main problem.

What are Badenoch’s plans to fix the economy and increase defence spending?

They don't have enough connected systems or controls to know the exact figure for benefit fraud. It's a best guess, which is not good enough for tax payers money.

You don’t think enforcement of laws reduces the number of people breaking the law?

That is an argument for GMT year round, or if you must change clocks, say only from mid-November until mid-February.

The IMF can praise all they like, but they’re praising a ‘plan’ not a result. The IMF also highlighted the UK’s high borrowing costs and that urgent debate is needed about spending priorities. We borrowed 18billion in August so it’s hardly doom mongering!

I’m also not being snobby about the £2 bus fare cap, I’ve stated this on previous replies.

I'm sorry, I genuinely don't understand your comment about using social care as 'a rod to beat you with'.
You think that because social care won't be reformed by the end of his term, he will have done nothing.
I think that starting the process IS doing something, and it wouldn't be possible to have fully achieved it by the end of term because its too big a project.
You are talking about an outcome. I'm talking about an action. An action is doing something.

Hence my wish it was an alternative to fines, something that really hurts. A possibility is to make it a condition of a phone contract not to use in this way, and if you do, the phone service provider has to cut you off and you lose the phone number. So many things are linked to phone number that the inconvenience would be great.

The natural conclusion is not necessarily the right conclusion and it’s also very simplistic.

You need to look at where the vacancies are falling and why. How significant the fall in unemployment is, at what level/demographic unemployment remains high and the impact of reduction on vacancies in the economy and those seeking work.

Is that because job seekers have switched over to sickness benefits.

They won't pay the fine.

I'm reserving judgement until more time has passed. You can't really measure waiting times on a monthly basis as there's natural fluctuation over the course of a year. Really you need at least a couple of years to see whether improvements are being made on the really important issues (and sometimes it can take a decade for food/bad effects to filter through).
It's hard to tell people to wait years to see improvements though. Which I'm assuming is part of the reason they are publicising efforts to fix the "small" stuff since it's those cumulative annoyances that are most in peoples faces. That's sensible strategy so long as they also work on the big picture stuff at the same time.

Its great that hes making it an offence to play loud music on public transport, against a backdrop of massive NHS waiting lists, the lack of GP appointments, the homelessness crisis, the cost of living crisis, and of course the elephant in the room, the illegal immigrant problem.
Bravo Andy👏👏👏