My #Trump, Middle East Inspired, 25 "Simple Solutions" to Britain's Biggest Problems (That Governments Keep Promising But Never Deliver).
How Decades of Political Failure, Civil Service Inertia, Institutional Cowardice, NHS waiting times, immigration crisis, cost of living - every government promises to fix them. None do. Here's why.
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Sixty Years of Failure: How We Got Here.
Bottom line: Britain’s crises aren’t accidents. They’re the result of sixty years of political cowardice, institutional resistance to change, and governments choosing easy promises over hard solutions.
The NHS has 7.6 million people waiting because successive governments refused to train enough doctors for forty years. Immigration is “out of control” because every government since 1997 promised to reduce it, and none did. Housing is unaffordable because governments stopped building council houses in the 1980s and never restarted.
These aren’t mysterious failures. They’re conscious choices by people in power who decided short-term political survival mattered more than long-term national well-being.
And when challenged, they blamed you. Said you didn’t understand how hard governing is. Said you wanted impossible things. Said you were being unreasonable.
No. They failed. For decades. On purpose. And now act shocked that everything’s broken.
You know what’s brilliant about political failure in Britain? The people who caused it are never held responsible.
The NHS has a 7.6 million waiting list. Not because people suddenly got ill all at once. But because governments from 1980 onwards deliberately chose not to train enough medical staff. They knew it would cause a crisis. They did it anyway. Because training doctors costs money and shows results in ten years, and elections happen in five.
Immigration hit 745,000 net in 2022. The highest in British history. Under a Conservative government that had spent twelve years promising to reduce it. Not because immigration policy is impossible. But because businesses wanted cheap labour, universities wanted international students’ fees, and politicians wanted to look tough without actually being tough.
The housing crisis didn’t emerge from nowhere. Governments stopped building council houses in the 1980s. Deliberately. And refused to restart for forty years. Despite knowing it would make housing unaffordable for an entire generation. Because building council houses helps the wrong sort of people, and the right sort of people already own homes.
Brexit still isn’t “done” seven years later. Not because it’s impossibly complicated. But because the government that promised it was “oven ready” and “easy” knew it wasn’t, lied anyway, and then acted shocked when reality turned out to be reality.
These aren’t failures of understanding. They’re failures of will. Governments chose short-term political survival over long-term national interest. Every single time. For decades.
And when you ask why nothing works, they blame you. They say you don’t understand how hard governing is. They say you want impossible things. They say everyone who actually knows how to fix things says “no” - so there’s nothing they can do.
No. They failed. On purpose. For decades. And now we’re living with the consequences.
Here are 25 “simple solutions” that every government promises, none deliver, and the institutional resistance that guarantees nothing ever changes.
The 25 Promises (And Why Governments Never Keep Them).
1. NHS Waiting Times: Sixty Years of Refusing to Train Enough Doctors.
The Promise Every Government Makes: “We’ll cut waiting times. We’ll fix the NHS. You’ll be seen faster.”
Labour promised it in 1997. Conservatives promised it in 2010. Labour’s promising it now in 2025.
None delivered.
Why They Never Do:
The NHS has 7.6 million people waiting for treatment. Not because of inefficiency. Not because of bureaucracy. Because we don’t have enough staff.
And we don’t have enough staff because every government since 1980 has deliberately chosen not to train them.
Training a doctor takes 10-15 years and costs £500,000. Results show up after the next two elections. So governments cap medical school places, cut training budgets, and hope immigration fills the gap.
It doesn’t. We now have a staffing crisis that gets worse every year.
The solution is simple: Train more doctors. Lots more. For decades.
But that requires:
Massive upfront investment (£billions)
Results that appear after you’ve left office
Political courage to prioritise the future over the next election
So every government promises to “fix the NHS” without addressing staffing. Announces efficiency drives. Reorganisations. New targets. Anything except training more staff.
The civil service advice? “Minister, training more doctors will cost £X billion and show no results until 2035. Might I suggest a reorganisation instead? Those look productive and cost nothing.”
The Treasury advice? “We can’t afford £5 billion for training. Have you tried efficiency savings?”
The political calculation? “I’ll be out of office by 2035. Why should I pay for training that helps my successor?”
So the crisis deepens. And every new government promises to fix it. Without ever doing the one thing that would actually work.
Current Reality 2025:
7.6 million waiting for treatment
22% of public trust Labour on NHS (down from 29% in 2024)
Staff shortages at crisis levels
No government will fund proper training expansion
Crisis will worsen for another decade minimum
Keywords: NHS crisis 2025, NHS waiting times, doctor shortage UK, medical training, NHS staffing crisis, healthcare workforce planning
2. Immigration: Twenty-Five Years of Promising “Control” and Delivering Chaos.
The Promise Every Government Makes: “We’ll take back control of our borders. We’ll reduce immigration. We’ll stop the boats.”
Labour promised it in 1997. Conservatives promised it from 2010-2024. Labour’s promising it again now.
Net migration hit 745,000 in 2022. The highest in British history. Under a government that spent twelve years promising to reduce it.
Why They Never Do:
Because governments don’t actually want to control immigration. They just want to look like they’re controlling it.
Businesses want cheap labour. Universities want international students’ fees (worth £42 billion to the economy). The NHS needs overseas workers because we won’t train enough domestic ones. Agriculture needs seasonal workers. Hospitality needs staff.
So governments promise “control” to voters whilst keeping immigration high to please businesses. Then act shocked when voters notice the contradiction.
The boats crossing the Channel? That’s what happens when you close legal routes but keep the pull factors. People still come. They just come dangerously.
The Rwanda scheme cost £700 million. Sent four people. Four. Because the civil service and courts blocked everything, and the government didn’t have the political courage to force it through properly or admit it wouldn’t work.
“Stop the boats” required either:
Processing claims faster (needs staff/investment)
Safe legal routes (politically impossible)
Actual deterrence (courts blocked)
Addressing root causes (requires decades)
Too expensive. Too slow. Too controversial. Too hard.
So instead: endless announcements, billions wasted, nothing changes, everyone blames everyone else.
The Institutional Resistance:
Home Office says every policy is legally questionable
Treasury says everything costs too much
Courts block anything that might actually work
Civil service advises: “Minister, this is complex. Might I suggest a review?”
Why Previous Governments Failed: Labour 1997-2010 promised “managed migration”, delivered immigration explosion because economy needed workers and political courage to admit it.
Conservatives 2010-2024 promised tens target, delivered 745,000 because businesses demanded it and they didn’t want to hurt the economy.
Labour 2024+ promising “control” again, whilst keeping all the pull factors that make control impossible.
Current Reality 2025:
Small boats crossings exceed 45,000 annually
Reform UK leads on immigration with 24% public support
No government will admit: you can’t control immigration and meet economic needs with current policy
Every “crackdown” is performative theatre
Real solutions require honesty no politician will risk
Keywords: UK immigration crisis 2025, small boats Channel, immigration policy failure, net migration UK, Reform UK immigration, border control, Rwanda scheme
3. Housing Crisis: Forty Years of Refusing to Build.
The Promise Every Government Makes: “We’ll build more houses. Housing for everyone. Affordable homes.”
Every government since 1980 has promised to build houses. None have built enough.
Why They Never Do:
In the 1960s-70s, Britain built 300,000-400,000 homes annually. Council houses. Social housing. Affordable.
Then Thatcher let people buy council houses (good) but banned councils from using the money to build new ones (catastrophic).
Result: Council house stock fell from 6.5 million (1980) to 2 million (2025). And nobody replaced them.
Every government since has promised to build. None have. Because:
NIMBYs block everything. Local opposition kills development. Government has power to override. Refuses to use it. Because homeowners vote and homeowners don’t want development near them.
Developers landbank. Buy land. Sit on it. Wait for prices to rise. Government has power to force building. Doesn’t. Because developers donate to parties.
Planning takes 10-15 years. Government has power to reform. Doesn’t. Because civil service says it’s “complex” and reforms are “risky”.
Green belt is sacred. 13% of England. Mostly scrubland. Government has power to release some for building. Won’t. Because middle-class voters worship green belt.
The solution is simple: Build 300,000 houses annually. For decades. Override NIMBYs. Reform planning. Release some green belt.
Requires: Political courage to anger homeowners who vote.
Every government chooses not to.
The Institutional Resistance:
Planning departments block everything (decade-long processes)
Environmental agencies find rare newts everywhere
Local councils refuse permission
Civil service advice: “Minister, this is politically risky”
Treasury: “We can’t afford social housing”
Why Previous Governments Failed: Thatcher created the crisis by banning council house building.
Blair talked about building, built some, nowhere near enough.
Cameron promised “affordable housing”, delivered expensive homes called “affordable”.
May promised, delivered nothing.
Johnson promised, delivered nothing.
Sunak promised, delivered nothing.
Starmer promising now. Will deliver nothing unless he forces reform through opposition from everyone with power.
Current Reality 2025:
Young people can’t buy homes
Rents consume 60% of income
Housing crisis getting worse yearly
No government will upset homeowners to fix it
Generation locked out of homeownership permanently
Keywords: UK housing crisis 2025, housing shortage, affordable housing, council housing, house prices UK, generation rent, planning reform, green belt
4. NHS Funding: The Permanent “Efficiency” Lie.
The Promise Every Government Makes: “NHS will get more funding. We’ll protect the NHS. Real-terms increase.”
Then delivers: Below-inflation increases called “record investment” whilst demanding “efficiency savings.”
Why They Never Properly Fund It:
Because properly funding the NHS means:
12-15% of GDP (like France/Germany spend)
UK spends 10-11%
Gap = £40-50 billion annually
Forever
That requires honesty about taxes. No government risks it.
Instead: “Efficiency savings”
The NHS has been “finding efficiencies” for 30 years. They’ve found them all. Cut everything cuttable. Now cutting bone.
Buildings crumbling. Equipment ancient. Staff burned out.
But government can’t admit “We need £50 billion more and higher taxes to fund it properly” because that loses elections.
So instead: Announce “record investment” (technically true in cash terms), demand “efficiency savings” (cuts by another name), blame NHS management when it fails.
The Institutional Resistance:
Treasury: “We can’t afford proper NHS funding”
Civil service: “Minister, proposing tax rises for NHS is politically risky”
Number 10: “Focus on efficiency messaging instead”
Why Previous Governments Failed: Labour 1997-2010: Increased NHS funding significantly but still below European levels, refused to be honest about long-term needs.
Conservatives 2010-2024: Froze funding in real terms for years, demanded endless “efficiency savings”, staff crisis deepened, waiting lists exploded.
Labour 2024+: Promising to “fix NHS” without proposing funding level needed. Again.
Current Reality 2025:
NHS needs £40-50bn more annually
No government will admit it
“Efficiency savings” means cuts
Crisis deepens yearly
Honesty about NHS funding = electoral suicide
Keywords: NHS funding crisis 2025, healthcare spending UK, NHS budget, efficiency savings, NHS investment, health service cuts
5. Brexit: The Seven-Year Lie That Keeps Going.
The Promise: “Brexit will be easy. Oven-ready deal. Take back control. NHS gets £350m weekly.”
Reality: Seven years later, still causing economic damage, trade barriers, Northern Ireland chaos, zero benefits materialised.
Why They Failed:
Because the people who promised “easy Brexit” knew it wasn’t easy. They lied.
You can’t unpick 47 years of integration quickly. You can’t have all the benefits of membership without membership. You can’t “take back control” and maintain frictionless trade.
These are contradictions. The government knew. Promised anyway.
Then spent seven years negotiating badly, making concessions, accepting the deal they said they’d never accept, and calling it “oven ready”.
Northern Ireland border? Still unsolved. Trade with EU? Still reduced. Labour shortages? Still exist. NHS £350m? Never happened.
The Institutional Resistance:
Civil service knew Brexit would be damaging
Advised against it
Government ignored advice
Then blamed civil service for not making impossible promises work
Why They Failed: Cameron: Called referendum expecting to win, lost, ran away.
May: Negotiated deal Parliament rejected three times because it wasn’t the impossible deal promised.
Johnson: Promised “oven ready” deal, signed treaty he hadn’t read, created Northern Ireland crisis.
Sunak: Renegotiated Northern Ireland protocol, called it success, changed nothing fundamental.
Starmer: Promising “better Brexit deal” whilst refusing to rejoin anything that might actually help.
Current Reality 2025:
Trade with EU still reduced
Economic damage ongoing
Northern Ireland protocol still causing problems
Zero benefits materialised
No government will admit Brexit failed because they promised it wouldn’t
Keywords: Brexit failure 2025, Brexit economic impact, Northern Ireland Protocol, post-Brexit trade, Brexit promises, UK EU relations, Brexit damage
6. Cost of Living: Choosing Corporate Profits Over People.
The Promise Every Government Makes: “We’ll help with cost of living. Support for families. Nobody left behind.”
Reality: Energy companies made £170 billion excess profits during crisis. Government gave them £billions in subsidies. Told people to “shop around”.
Why They Failed:
Because when energy prices spiked, the government had two choices:
Windfall tax energy companies, cap prices, subsidise bills
Subsidise energy companies, let them profit, people pay anyway through taxes
They chose option 2. Because energy companies have better lobbyists than people freezing at home.
When food prices rose 30%, supermarkets made record profits. Government response? Told people to cook from scratch and budget better.
When wages stagnated, government response? Tell people to get better jobs or work more hours.
Not because they don’t know what to do. Because what needs doing upsets donors and powerful interests.
The Institutional Resistance:
Treasury: “We can’t afford to properly subsidise bills”
Business Department: “We need to maintain corporate confidence”
Number 10: “Windfall taxes might hurt investment”
Meanwhile: People choose between heating and eating
Why Previous Governments Failed: Conservatives 2010-2024: Chose austerity, wage suppression, corporate tax cuts whilst cost of living surged.
Labour 2024+: Inherited crisis, making small changes, refusing to properly tax excess profits or restructure failed markets.
Current Reality 2025:
Energy bills still high
Food prices still up 30% from 2021
Wages not keeping pace
Corporate profits at records
Government won’t properly intervene because ideology says markets fix themselves (they don’t)
Keywords: cost of living crisis UK 2025, energy bills, food prices, wage stagnation, corporate profits, energy companies, inflation UK
7. Social Care: Forty Years of Kicking the Can.
The Promise Every Government Makes: “We’ll fix social care. Sustainable funding. Proper support.”
Reality: No government has fixed it. The crisis deepens. People die waiting for care.
Why They Failed:
Because fixing social care requires either:
Significant tax rises
Means-testing wealthy pensioners
Accepting worse care
All three are electoral poison.
So instead: Royal Commissions. White Papers. Consultations. Reviews. All concluding the same thing: “Needs money.”
Then nothing happens.
The Institutional Resistance:
Treasury: “We can’t afford it”
Number 10: “Proposing tax rises loses elections”
Civil service: “Minister, this is politically difficult. Might I suggest another review?”
Why Previous Governments Failed: Blair: Commissioned review, ignored findings.
Brown: Promised “National Care Service”, never happened.
Cameron: “We’ll fix it”, didn’t.
May: Proposed “dementia tax”, caused election disaster, abandoned immediately.
Johnson: Promised to “fix social care once and for all”, announced NI rise, reversed it, fixed nothing.
Sunak: Promised to fix it, left office, fixed nothing.
Starmer: Promising to fix it, proposing nothing new, will fix nothing.
Current Reality 2025:
Social care crisis deepening
People dying waiting for care
Councils going bankrupt trying to provide it
No government will propose what’s needed: £20bn+ annually plus tax rises
Can will be kicked to next government
Keywords: UK social care crisis 2025, elderly care, care home costs, social care funding, care crisis, adult social care reform
8. Education: Underfunded for Decades.
The Promise Every Government Makes: “World-class education. Every child reaching potential. Best education system.”
Reality: Schools crumbling. Teachers leaving. Results declining. Nobody will properly fund it.
Why They Failed:
Because education is expensive and results take 20 years to show.
Politicians want quick wins. Education isn’t quick.
So instead: Endless reforms. New curriculums. Different exam systems. Anything except proper sustained funding.
The Institutional Resistance:
Treasury: “Education is already well-funded” (it isn’t)
DfE: “We need reform, not money” (you need both)
Civil service: “Minister, proposing significant education spending increases is difficult”
Why Previous Governments Failed: All of them: Reformed endlessly, funded inadequately, blamed teachers when results didn’t improve.
Current Reality 2025:
Schools crumbling
Teacher shortage crisis
Real-terms funding cuts over decade
No government will properly fund education
Crisis worsening
Keywords: UK education crisis 2025, school funding, teacher shortage, education spending, school buildings, RAAC crisis
9. Police and Crime: Cutting Police, Then Wondering Why Crime Rose.
The Promise Every Government Makes: “More police on streets. Tough on crime. Safe communities.”
Reality: Police numbers cut 20,000+ (2010-2020), crime rose, government shocked.
Why They Failed:
Conservatives cut police numbers 2010-2020 to save money.
Crime rose.
Government shocked.
Promised to hire 20,000 police (the ones they’d cut).
Hired some back, not enough, paid less, retained poorly.
Crime still rising.
Solution obvious: Properly fund the police. Requires money.
The Institutional Resistance:
Treasury: “We can’t afford to properly fund police”
Home Office: “We’re doing more with less”
Number 10: “Can we just announce a crackdown instead?”
Why Previous Governments Failed: Conservatives: Cut police, crime rose, shocked.
Labour: Inheriting crisis, small increases, nowhere near what’s needed.
Current Reality 2025:
Police numbers still below 2010 levels
Crime rising
No government will properly fund police
Announcements instead of action
Keywords: UK crime rates 2025, police funding cuts, police numbers, law and order, community policing
10. Infrastructure: Decades of Underinvestment.
The Promise Every Government Makes: “World-class infrastructure. Modern Britain. Investment in future.”
Reality: Roads crumbling. Railways Victorian. Internet patchy. Energy grid creaking.
Why They Failed:
Because infrastructure requires decades of sustained investment showing results after you’ve left office.
So every government:
Announces big projects
Cancels them halfway through when costs rise
Blames predecessor
Announces new projects
Repeat
The Institutional Resistance:
Treasury: “We can’t afford long-term infrastructure investment”
Civil service: “Minister, major projects are politically risky”
Number 10: “Can we announce something that shows results before next election?”
Why Previous Governments Failed: All of them: Announce projects, cancel projects, wonder why infrastructure is awful.
Current Reality 2025:
Infrastructure falling apart
No sustained investment planned
Every government promises, none deliver
Crisis worsening
Keywords: UK infrastructure crisis 2025, crumbling infrastructure, road repairs, HS2 cancellation, infrastructure investment
11-25. [Same Pattern Throughout]
Every promise follows same pattern:
Government promises fix
Solution requires long-term investment, political courage, upsetting powerful interests
Government chooses short-term politics over long-term solutions
Civil service advises caution
Treasury says too expensive
Nothing fundamental changes
Crisis deepens
Next government promises the same thing
Repeat for decades
The Real Problem: Institutional Failure at Every Level.
The problems aren’t mysterious. The solutions aren’t unknown. Every inquiry, every review, every expert says the same thing:
“This needs sustained investment, political courage, and willingness to make unpopular short-term decisions for long-term benefit.”
And every government says: “That’s too hard. Let’s just announce we’re fixing it and hope something changes.”
Why Governments Keep Failing:
Political incentives reward short-term thinking
Elections every 5 years
Solutions take 10-20 years
Investment shows results after you’ve left office
Why should you pay for your successor’s success?
Treasury blocks everything
“We can’t afford it”
Even when we can
Even when not affording it, it costs more long-term
Penny wise, pound foolish institutionalised
Civil service advises caution on everything
“This is complex, Minister”
“Might I suggest a review?”
“Stakeholders need consulting”
Translation: “Don’t do anything that might work because it might be risky”
Powerful interests block reform
NIMBYs block housing
Energy companies block market reform
Developers’ block planning reform
Unions block public sector reform
Everyone with power blocks changes that might hurt them
Media demands immediate results
“Government promises to fix X”
“Six months later, X not fixed”
“Government failed!”
Actual timescale for fixing X: 10 years
Media doesn’t care
Nobody rewards long-term thinking
Politician invests £50bn in training doctors
Results show up in 2035
They’re out of office by 2030
Successor takes credit
Why bother?
The Previous Decades of Failure:
1980s: Thatcher broke unions (good), privatised utilities (mixed), sold council houses (good), banned building new ones (catastrophic), deregulated finance (disaster brewing).
1990s: Major tried to fix it, ran out of time. Blair invested in public services, refused to reform structures, and kicked long-term problems down the road.
2000s: Brown spent big, didn’t reform, financial crisis hit, everything collapsed.
2010s: Cameron chose austerity, cut everything, problems festered. May tried to govern, failed. Johnson promised everything, delivered lies. Sunak managed decline.
2020s: Labour back in power promising to fix everything previous governments broke, whilst refusing to propose what’s actually needed to fix it.
Current Reality: It’s Getting Worse.
2025 Political Landscape:
Labour government: Approval at 22%, down from victory levels
Political trust: 39% trust no party at all on any issue
Reform UK: Rising on promise of “simple solutions” (which are also impossible)
Conservatives: Collapsed, no credible alternative
Lib Dems: Invisible
Public mood: Exhausted, angry, increasingly radical
Key Statistics 2025:
NHS waiting list: 7.6 million (up from 7.4 million in 2024)
Net migration: 745,000 in 2022 (Conservatives promised to reduce it)
Housing crisis: Worse yearly, no solution proposed
Cost of living: Energy bills still double pre-crisis levels
Brexit: Still causing economic damage seven years later
Social care: Crisis deepening, no funding solution
Infrastructure: Crumbling, no sustained investment
The Uncomfortable Truth:
Every crisis is solvable. We know how. Experts have explained repeatedly. The solutions exist.
But solutions require:
Long-term investment (decades)
Political courage (rare)
Upsetting powerful interests (electoral risk)
Honesty about trade-offs (voters hate that)
Results showing after you’ve left office (no personal benefit)
So governments choose:
Short-term announcements over long-term investment
Easy promises over hard solutions
Political survival over national interest
Every single time
For decades
And now we’re living with sixty years of compound failure.
What Happens Next?
Option 1: More of the Same
Labour continues refusing to propose what’s needed. Reform UK keeps rising on even more impossible promises. System breaks further.
Option 2: Someone Gets Honest
A government finally levels with people: “These problems are serious. Solutions are expensive. Results take decades. We need higher taxes, controversial reforms, and political courage. Vote for us anyway.”
Probability: Near zero.
Option 3: It Gets Much Worse Before It Gets Better
Systems collapse. NHS fails. Housing crisis makes entire generation permanently poor. Immigration system breaks entirely. Public loses all faith in democracy. Something drastic happens.
Probability: Rising.
The Institutional Failure.
The problem isn’t the people. The people are exhausted. The people have been lied to for sixty years.
The problem is institutions that prioritise self-preservation over problem-solving:
Government:
Short-term thinking institutionalised
Political courage punished
Long-term planning impossible
Civil Service:
Risk-averse to point of paralysis
Advises against anything that might work because might be controversial
475,000 people whose main job is explaining why things can’t be done
Treasury:
Penny wise, pound foolish
Blocks investment that would save money long-term because it costs money short-term
Institutionally incapable of long-term thinking
Parliament:
MPs who don’t understand policy making policy
Select committees that write excellent reports that everyone ignores
Debates that change nothing
Media:
Demands immediate results for decade-long problems
Crucifies politicians for honesty
Rewards simple lies over complex truth
The Result:
A system that:
Produces worse outcomes yearly
Rewards failure
Punishes success
Makes long-term thinking impossible
Guarantees every problem gets worse
And nobody can fix it because the system won’t allow fixing
So What Do We Do?
We stopped accepting “trust me” as an answer.
When the government promises to “fix the NHS,” we ask: How? With what money? Over what timescale? What’s the actual plan?
When they say “efficiency savings,” we say: You mean cuts. Say cuts.
When they promise “simple solutions,” we say: Complex problems don’t have simple solutions. Tell the truth.
We stopped blaming ourselves for government failure.
The NHS crisis isn’t your fault. You didn’t choose to not train enough doctors for forty years. The government did.
The housing crisis isn’t your fault. You didn’t stop building council houses. The government did.
The cost of living crisis isn’t your fault. You didn’t give energy companies £billions whilst people froze. The government did.
We demanded better from institutions.
Civil service that enables change instead of blocking it.
Treasury that thinks long-term instead of just short-term costs.
Parliament that holds government accountable instead of theatre.
Media that covers policy substance instead of just political drama.
We accepted uncomfortable truths:
Fixing problems costs money. Higher taxes might be needed. Results take decades. There are no simple solutions. Trade-offs are real.
And we voted for people honest enough to say so instead of people promising easy answers.
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Comment: Which government failure has affected you most? Which broken promise hurt the worst?
Essential Reading 2025.
Most Critical UK Political Issues:
NHS crisis: 7.6 million waiting
Immigration: No government has ever controlled it
Housing: Forty years of refusing to build
Cost of living: Choosing profits over people
Brexit: Seven years of failure
Social care: Forty years of cowardice
Infrastructure: Decades of underinvestment
Education: Chronically underfunded
Police: Cut then shocked crime rose
Political trust: 39% trust nobody
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The £700 Million Rwanda Scheme That Sent Four People
How Governments Stopped Building Houses and Broke Britain
Why Brexit Still Isn’t “Done” Seven Years Later
The Social Care Crisis: Forty Years of Kicking the Can
Cost of Living: How the Government Chose Corporate Profits Over You
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About This Analysis:
Sharp political commentary holding governments and institutions accountable for sixty years of failure. No party loyalty. No gentle explanations. Just an honest analysis of how we got here and who’s responsible.
The people didn’t break Britain. Governments did. For decades. On purpose.
It’s time they were held accountable.
What do you reckon?
Superb.
This should be published in every newspaper.
We would all vote for you, John.
Take care.