Mervyn and Trish wrote: 23 Aug 2022, 11:34
Those determined to knock our government for the economic situation should perhaps read this. It can't all be the Tories' fault!
I have never heard anyone claim it was all the tories fault.
Good article, I wish you had have provided a reference to read the full article (or maybe that was it).
The problem though is that it is another case of whataboutery ... which is a logical fallacy often used, as here, to validate an acceptance of striving to achieve the status of the lowest common denominator.
Sadly over the last few years there has been an acceptance of lower and lower standards from our political representatives ... often with the only counter argument being made up irrelevancies about how someone else may have been worse or using someone else's low standards and failures as justification of our own. It is time that stopped.
Instead of the continued use of negative whataboutery it is time we focussed more on the positive whataboutery ... those elements of other societies that we wish to emulate in our strive towards excellence. We are (supposedly) a sovereign nation with our own government and ability to legislate and make decisions ... so let us try to lead the way. We cannot do it alone, but if we point in the right direction then other countries will look at what we are doing and strive to achieve the same high standards.
It is time that once again it became acceptable to expect integrity and excellence in public life, in the workplace and in everything we do. So the question should be what are WE going to do about it, not justify failure simply because others are also struggling.
