Any and all government bashing is almost a national sport and pastime at this stage. Throw in some numbers to try to prove your point and you’re going to be well received.
So there’s a lot of misinformation out there. Perhaps this Twitter chap is talking rubbish too.
For the record not saying our government is perfect but holy heck it’s hard to keep up with the negativity
I would trust a rando more than a journalist these days
It's putting the source in the proper context.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Expertise
https://www.c-span.org/video/?426290-1/tom-nichols-discusses...
Unrelated, but the second link also provides the best definition of fake news I've ever heard.
I'm saying that you shouldn't dismiss what he's saying because he posted it on Twitter and/or because (you feel that) people are bashing the government.
He's a journalist at a well-respected newspaper, who has practical and academic experience using and interpreting data for his journalism, communicating his story in accessible way (both accessible in a pedagogical way and because the FT has a paywall). Engage with what he's posted and evaluate it on its merits, not just dismissing it because it's a Twitter thread containing a viewpoint that you don't want to be true.
Show me the data.
Reputation isn't everything. But it's a useful guide.
They're doing incredibly badly despite friendly press support, are leaderless after the misconduct got too much even for the Tory party, and are facing some really serious problems this winter if energy prices match projections. In the meantime they waste time on culture war nonsense. They're not being bashed enough.
If the general public was instead expressing extreme satisfaction with the government, I find it unlikely that this would have happened.
healthcare (and education) are both incredibly big outliers in the last decades of technological progress (incredible diminishing returns, just look at US spending, brutal Baumol effect, since almost everything is still manual labor .. every MRI/CT requires more professional labor, every new drug requires more tests and consultations, and so on).
no wonder it's looking worse and worse when compared to total GDP of aging populations.