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Potholes, bus fares and headphone dodgers: will Burnham’s strategy of ‘everyday fixes’ succeed?

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Potholes, bus fares and headphone dodgers: will Burnham’s strategy of ‘everyday fixes’ succeed?
来源: World news | The Guardian

New PM has prioritised small fixes to show voters Labour can make a real difference, and government insiders are delighted at the public’s reaction In the first episode of Armando Iannucci’s political satire The Thick of It, the hapless minister Hugh Abbot is in the back of a tax

New PM has prioritised small fixes to show voters Labour can make a real difference, and government insiders are delighted at the public’s reaction In the first episode of Armando Iannucci’s political satire The Thick of It, the hapless minister Hugh Abbot is in the back of a taxi, frantically brainstorming for an on-the-hoof policy he can announce to the assembled national press. “So you want something sexy and eye-catching, and that is free and universally popular and instantly applicable. No one can possibly object to it,” says the addled junior adviser Ollie Reeder.

“Well, really, you should have said something before then, because I’ve got a file about that fucking thick of that back in the office.” Continue reading...

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