You do know I’m not Boris Johnson don’t you, and in all honesty although a bit blue at the moment don’t have any particular political tendencies, and certainly don’t an issue with supporting any of the policies you mention, indeed I have grandchildren that fall into the bracket of the support you mention above - my point being that it is not always as straightforward as people make it seem
Don’t think Johnson has handled this well by any means, but who would have done better and differently

How's your splintered @rse?
At least DG lays it down!
Take a side and be done with it man, your beginning to sound like Mild Rover, dearest me!

Let's have a look at some of these:
1. Perhaps if parents took some responsibility and prioritised feeding their kids rather than constantly berating the state - plenty of low income families manage to feed their kids - its about doing the right thing first. Free school meals should be a last resort but should be available all year round.
2.We live in a very densely populated country so building affordable housing is a challenge especially in the cities where it is needed so kids are close to schools/infrastructure etc - where in London do you suggest they build - Regents Park, Green Park - deny the public these green spaces?
3.Leeds council are sat on about 1,500 laptops that never got distributed - perhaps the government did their bit but the local councils haven't done theirs?
4. Agreed

Maslow really applies to the adults - he doesn't mention hungry children - plenty of kids learn perfectly well from poor backgrounds it about parental input - you encourage your kids to embrace education and they will - if you don't see any value in it neither will your kids.

The state can only do so much - as adults we have to take some responsibility for our own actions - if we have done everything possible and still need state help that is what it is there for a last resort not the first option.

Maybe because whatever the Tories do or say isn’t for the betterment for the country more like lining the pockets for their spouses and fat cat mates. Despite what the Daily Mail or the Sun spout out Corbyn would’ve handled Covid a lot better.

That's really gone and done it now.

+1

And its about time all these tories were stopped from fiddling their taxes

Well I think you’ve just pretty much proved the point I was making to be honest - neither you nor I have any idea how Corbyn would have handled Covid, but there you go bigging him up. To be fair I’m not aware of any comments he’s made about how he would have done things differently, and in my opinion (you seem to be stating it as a fact) he wouldn’t have been up to it - in fact he was one of 2 reasons I didn’t vote Labour at the last election.

I imagine, at a time government is trying to deliver these huge and critical projects, it wouldn't hurt having in charge someone who believed in the power of government to make things happen rather than people who believe the solution instead is to give vast contracts, without tenders, to companies with no relevant experience other than the ears and pockets of cabinet members.

Corbyn would have handled it better? Lol. How? By calling it the fault of isreal and offering it free WiFi to go away?

Some of this I agree with but the public sector has hardly an unblemished record at delivery large projects. I think they needed to focus track and trace on the elderly and vulnerable - taking whole class out of school for an youngster with no real issues seems counterproductive

I doubt he would - kids would have been off school for 9 months by now - Universities shut. They would have focused on the wrong stuff IMO e.g. union legislation, green issues - Blair on the other hand different story

Sorry but, you are just making stuff up.
The Tories are making a right mess of everything they touch and you still proclaim that Labour would have been worse.
To claim that ANY party would have focused on other stuff, rather than Covid, is just plain ridiculous - you needed to give that a little more thought.
It would be akin to me suggesting that the Tories would have cut taxes for the better off and shrunk the size of the state.
They will do this at the first opportunity but, right now, the metaphoric house is burning down and that needs dealing with first.
- Mind you, Boris & Co aren't exactly doing a good job on this one

You are Rupert Murdoch (or other Right wing apologist) and I claim my £5

Deary me, still clinging to the Laffer Curve. I thought that had gone out with trickle-down.

It would be funny if only largely bonkers concepts like this didn't actually drive policy for the current government.