"Lessons will be learned".
Watch this postDoes this phrase make your blood boil? Does anyone else think that this is trotted out to avoid responsibility? I have been waiting with dread for this to be said in the Letsby saga. The banking crisis, Covid, Paedophile ring debacle, soft on drugs, knife crime.
The list of incompetence and/or intransigence where this phrase has been used is endless. The sometimes obscenely paid bosses at the head of our biggest companies and services, should, and must, be held accountable for their actions and take responsibility for their decisions.
This should be criminal and civil. They can no longer be allowed to just walk away from their disasters, sometimes with a golden handshake. This includes institutions deemed too big to be allowed to fail.
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You saw what happens in France they wont stand for it but the Brits just take it shrug and carry on being mugged not only by the world but by the utility companies and the government.
How many people will freeze to death this winter but as long as the share holders get a nice big bonus and the bosses get a few million each its O.K.
Water bills are going up again to pay the share holders a big bonus again even though the company has failed to even treat sewage and just dump it in the waterways.
The lessen we must take away from this is we are mugs don't ever doubt how dumb the British public is.
It always makes me smile when people say I wouldn't vote for the other lot (labour) they would ruin the country, look around you, its more of the same or take a chance. Thirteen years of a Conservative government the down side, destruction of the NHS to advance private medicine which they can make lots of money out of, if you happen to be uninsurable or can't afford it you can just go and die.
Flooding the country with illegal immigrants (cheap labour) this has the same effect as selling people council houses, you can't afford to ask for a decent wage because if you strike you lose your home (Feudalism at its best) or an immigrant will do your job cheaper you still lose your home. Water and fuel companies are making billions in profits and the bosses give themselves millions in bonuses while people have to go hungry to pay the bills. In fact, the water companies are just asset stripping putting up prices to pay share holders nice bonuses and dumping sewage in the rivers, so not even bothering to hide the fact they are not doing the job we are paying for and everyone just puts up with it. Tax is higher than it has ever been with nothing to show apart from an abandoned railway project which should have never been started in the first place given the state of the country's finances. Who can afford to use trains in this country anyway, London to Manchester far cheaper to fly. The plus side is. Pensioners like me have so far done alright at least until we get ill and can't get an ambulance or even a doctor's appointment or get robbed because we no longer have a viable police force.