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Emeritus Prof Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Martin Kettle uses the crisis in prisons as an example of a wider crisis of governance across the country... and to draw out one specific issue (and use a phrase he doesn't), the various crises are excavated by the problem of a rigid Treasury oversight, which 'know the cost of everything & the value of nothing'.

This is forcing departments into a constant crisis management & constraining any forward planning to actually resolve crises!

Its idiocy!

#politics

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/07/prisons-report-crisis-overcrowding-keir-starmer-labour-uk

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

And we might link this to the continuing political economy of austerity, which continues in all but name...

I have explored this problem recently for @NWBylines

#politics #austerity

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https://northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/economy/the-false-economies-of-austerity/

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