Political expediency rather than goal led expediency.

 Subject: Political expediency rather than goal led expediency.



It seems to me that politics has descended to handing out sweets rather than presenting a comprehensive plan for future prosperity. Growth which seems the economic dream to reestablished the financial books after Covid can only be attained by investment and reassembling our aging infrastructure and yet we hear little about long term borrowing for investment or the sort of restructuring which went on in Europe after the war which helped America to become the power it is.

Where are the nuclear power plants, where are the AI assisted production plans to remove our reliance of the totalitarian state of China. Where are the rehousing plans to bring back the imbalance of relying on market forces to build the affordable houses we need and the reintroduce the small house builder to build the manciple  housing we need. Where is the investment in modernising our schools by radically bringing down class sizes and centralising white board  technology with a work around teaching system that is based on class teachers reaffirming the core subjects which arrive packaged via the internet. Modern classrooms, modern innovative teaching systems will provide the stimulus the children need from a disillusioned teaching staff under the cosh. Each child can be monitored by the work they do each day and assistance fed in as to a specific need they might have.

We have made such progress in medicine and particularly in genetics by using Artificial Intelligence, let’s not fear it but embrace it to overcome our ill trained workforce and it’s specific needs to produce for our local market.

Let’s have the vision we used to have in Brunei's time or the chutzpah which led us to invest and build Concord.

Feed back is the mantra we use for success and we encourage staff to provide feedback on the tasks they perform why not across the whole spectrum of human endeavour is it thought to be dehumanising that we don’t have ID cards to monitor who is here and where they are, why are we happy to have cameras on street corners and yet not in our back pockets.

Is the ridiculous ends society goes to to protect privacy part of our disdain on accepting we all play a part in the cohesion within society and the really bad-uns need the village green stocks to take aim at.

If we had presented to us a proper objective goal in all facets of society with a cost and revenue collection method plus an accounting system as the money comes in and is spent but we haven’t moved on much from Cromwell time when money is a privet matter even if it is the public purse. We have the tools for meticulous book keeping but it’s against the interests of power to disclose them.