But the entire was blown to oblivion by $300 million worth of ‘Bunker Buster’ bombs unleashed on Iran from $2 billion worth of B-2 stealth bombers.
Am I surprised? Of course not; and the fact that one $500 million military operation has overshadowed a tin-pot business strategy launch from a bunch of commercial ‘know-nothings’ comes as no shock to me.
The fact that Labour is about to enter their second year in power and have only just realised they need to make some cash to pay for their outrageous spending, is surely enough evidence that they don’t have a commercial clue.
Their great announcement came and went this week, but nobody noticed since President Trump’s fireworks show in the Middle East put the kibosh on Labour’s two-bob economic fantasy. Let’s be serious here – Starmer’s ‘game changing’ programme costs less than the US’s fireworks show in Iran.
I was due to speak to Matthew Wright on LBC Radio about the chaotic and nonsensical Labour training scheme that is supposed to put a stop the UK’s reliance to foreign labour. But once the Bunker Busters started hitting the desert the PM’s great plan was binned by most media.
For the record, the problem with the Government’s strategy is it’s all talk and no substance. It’s just a pitiful, made-up, £275 million, to ‘train Britons to do jobs’, which it says ‘might otherwise require imported labour’.
The entire thing is complete and utter BS and shows just how much sway the UK has in world events. Clearly Labour was not in the know about what the US and Israel had planned.
Although maybe the Middle East crisis did them a favour since, from what I’ve seen of the so-called ‘strategy’ it wouldn’t make a Bunker Buster’s chance in hell of moving the dial on the UK’s deep-seated skills gap.
The Government reckon a couple of hundred million thrown at training institutions will do the job. What a load of complete arse! You can fund as many ‘training agencies’ as you like but without the actual apprentice jobs in real businesses, your strategy is blown.
What they should be doing is helping businesses create apprenticeship roles, not just throwing money at training agencies that churn out qualifications with no job at the end of them. It’s real-world experience that counts.
This government needs to provide targeted funding that goes straight into the hands of employers who are willing to take on young people and train them properly, not waste it on bureaucratic nonsense. That’s how you close a skills gap: one real job, one real apprentice, one real business at a time.
Our Labour Government has no idea about how business works, and after what happened at the end of June, it’s clear they have no real idea how international politics works either.
It’s time to get this bunch of amateur pretenders out of the way so we can usher in some proper government in Westminster, the kind that can restore the economy and be taken seriously on the world stage.
