As Paris burns our prime minister has stopped people playing loud music on buses & trains.

You conflate the performance of the NHS (due to years of underinvestment) with the healthcare that the NHS would provide if it had appropriate investment France £1Trillion more & Germany £2.3T more over last 2 decades. Plus social care cuts NHS has been failed by politicians

Am realising that the most common skill exercised in modern politics is one I have never mastered, namely an ability to compartmentalise without apparent embarrassment eg ‘tackling VAWG is our top priority’ but also ‘fully intact males should access women’s spaces’.

Let me clear a second point up about Brexit: Brexit wasn't a silver bullet. It was never expected that it would immunise us from failure, or save us the difficult task of having to actually govern ourselves effectively. Too many people seem to confuse SINCE Brexit with BECAUSE of Brexit. They see difficulties since leaving as proof that Brexit hasn't worked. When it fact what they are seeing are straightforward domestic political failures. They get the impression that the Brexit vote was the end of the story, rather than the beginning of a new, exciting chapter. Brexit wasn't like a wind up toy car where you let it go and it speeds off. It wasn't, to use Air Force parlance, a "fire and forget" event. To think that Brexiteers promised that Brexit would mean everything was plain sailing from now to eternity is just silly. Brexit was about returning political power and accountability to where it belongs, Westminster (and eventually locally). It was about giving politicians we elect and who we can remove the ultimate say. It was about placing issues we had been unable to touch while inside the EU back into democratic contention. None of this meant we would be unable to falter or fail, as all countries do from time to time. It simply meant that our future is ours, and our failures are ours to own too. THIS was the point of Brexit. We can no longer blame the EU for all our failings. We have to look to ourselves, and to our politicians. Our democratic muscles have atrophied and weakened after decades in the EU. We are taking time to rebuild them. Too many people are frightened of our own sovereignty. They would prefer the comforting bosom of the EU. But that would be a major step backwards. Our future is ours, if only we can rediscover the courage and desire to govern ourselves.

Gina Miller (like all Remainers) conveniently ignores the obvious here. Brexit could have been so much better if it had been negotiated and enacted better. Instead you had Theresa May completely stuff up the negotiations. Johnson put a sticking plaster on May’s abortion of a deal, instead of standing his ground and letting it go to no deal which would have been a stronger point for negotiations on a better deal. Thousands of EU laws were left on the statute by people like Kemi Badenoch because they would not take on the pro EU UK Establishment. Yet despite all this, the UK consistently outperformed the likes of Germany, France and Italy on GDP. Also our trade with the EU increased. That £350 million extra for the NHS on the side of THAT bus actually happened too. Brexit did not fail but it simply could have been so much better.

This is a good policy & better than what those criticising Burnham are suggesting.

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