Britain if the government stopped holding a thousand "consultations" on every new idea and instead just did things
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Sep 27
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Sep 27, 2026 · 8:39 AM UTC

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Might start turning up to government consultations just to tell them that I want them to stop consulting people and fucking get on with it already.
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oh no, democracy and democratic process. noooo.
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Democracy is when you vote for a government and then that government does the things that you voted for them to do. This has been made impossible in Britain because everything has to go through a million layers of unnecessary bureaucratic nonsense.
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Sounds promising. Let's hold a consultation on it.
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How would all the lawyers and consultants and high salary fake job executives make infinite amounts of money though ?
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A good leader makes good decisions A bad leader makes bad decisions The worst leaders make the worst decisions - this is where we are! A dozen consultancies and counter-signings for anything so if it goes wrong, no one is even accountable!
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They did this for the planning and infrastructure bill and it was an utter failure
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The politicians would have to make a decision then, and thus be held to account, and we can’t have that Better to disperse power to a million lawyers, NGOs, thinktanks, and consultants than potentially be blamed for doing a shit job
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A government who wants progress should announce a huge project, then when the "consultancy firms" and "animal charities" come out to demand their part in it, simply name, shame, arrest, and dissolve those groups. Suddenly, there won't be a 'need' for a 'consultation'. Strange!
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in this case it would be just not doing things since it's not a gov programme
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Funny how we used to watch The Jetsons and this vision was so farfetched and technologically impossible. Now it's entirely plausible but the economy's just shit.
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Suicidal bureaucrat-ism
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We should swap places with the Chinese industrial / construction sector for a year and see where things land. One runway? They’d have 10 airports, 000’s of high speed trains up and running.
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The only bit of infrastructure we have built in the last 20? years is also an incredible success. So let's make sure we have no more of that - some bats might get harmed, a tree that died 50 years ago could have to be cut down or a rock could be disturbed.
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We used to give entire continents infrastructure, justice systems and hospitals now we can’t lay tarmac
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We need a consultation about having less consultations
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