Reminds me of this…

In yesterday's opening panel, ICTD's @daisyogembo.bsky.social said: “We need to put principles before platforms. When identity, payments, & data exchange ... are governed for inclusion & trust, the gains are not just higher revenues [but] stronger social contracts between governments & citizens.”

To be honest, this also very emblematic of one of the Conservatives' key problems right now - there's no thought, no actual attempt to understand what went wrong for them - just endless magic thinking based on nothing but misguided partisan-fuelled hope, chasing easy options that would fail anyway.

The problem isn’t a lack of speed or a lack of will. It’s the lack of a coherent agenda and a superstitious attachment to self-denial ordinances (“we can’t raise taxes”). Send not to ask who is the smol bean, Wes. The smol bean is thee.

You don’t need some sort of Trumpy animal spirit to get stuff done here. You just need a plan and a willingness to push it through even if it upsets people. Starmer and Streeting can do more things, more easily, than Trump. They just abolished NHS England overnight!

As several people have pointed out, aside from everything else that’s wrong with this view, it’s just nuts that a Labour frontbencher should stand around gawping at how fast a US White House can move. A British govt with a towering Commons majority can do whatever it likes, however fast it likes.

😂😂