I agree that there a lot of very good and very committed civil servants at that level, but there are also a lot of crap ones and a huge amount or terrible ones at junior level which I know frustrates a lot of people in both government and the CS. I think a major issue is all the politically appointed SPADS who undermine the senior civil service and are pretty much accountable to no one. That's what I would like to see stopped.
Junior civil servants won't have contact with Raab or other ministers and it's Raab who is accused of bullying in the case.
As well as the senior civil servant I mentioned before, my wife also saw bullying happen when she worked for a non-departmental organisation, the shouting started at ministerial level. The ministerial lackeys, the SPADs, are more interested in protection for their minister than getting a dob done well.
I agree that there a lot of very good and very committed civil servants at that level, but there are also a lot of crap ones and a huge amount or terrible ones at junior level which I know frustrates a lot of people in both government and the CS. I think a major issue is all the politically appointed SPADS who undermine the senior civil service and are pretty much accountable to no one. That's what I would like to see stopped.
Junior civil servants won't have contact with Raab or other ministers and it's Raab who is accused of bullying in the case.
As well as the senior civil servant I mentioned before, my wife also saw bullying happen when she worked for a non-departmental organisation, the shouting started at ministerial level. The ministerial lackeys, the SPADs, are more interested in protection for their minister than getting a dob done well.
Of course they will. But anyway, agree with what you are saying generally
All the money you made will never buy back your soul
I agree that there a lot of very good and very committed civil servants at that level, but there are also a lot of crap ones and a huge amount or terrible ones at junior level which I know frustrates a lot of people in both government and the CS. I think a major issue is all the politically appointed SPADS who undermine the senior civil service and are pretty much accountable to no one. That's what I would like to see stopped.
Junior civil servants won't have contact with Raab or other ministers and it's Raab who is accused of bullying in the case.
As well as the senior civil servant I mentioned before, my wife also saw bullying happen when she worked for a non-departmental organisation, the shouting started at ministerial level. The ministerial lackeys, the SPADs, are more interested in protection for their minister than getting a dob done well.
Its also worth remembering that Raab is now facing complaints about bullying from around 24 civil servants, and that several others reportedly decided not to submit formal complaints about him after they were told they would have been identified to Mr Raab as part of the investigation. They feared being identified in case he were to remain in post, as he would know who had complained against him (and as Patel was kept in post despite being found to have bullied her staff, this is not an unreasonable fear).
I agree that there a lot of very good and very committed civil servants at that level, but there are also a lot of crap ones and a huge amount or terrible ones at junior level which I know frustrates a lot of people in both government and the CS. I think a major issue is all the politically appointed SPADS who undermine the senior civil service and are pretty much accountable to no one. That's what I would like to see stopped.
Junior civil servants won't have contact with Raab or other ministers and it's Raab who is accused of bullying in the case.
As well as the senior civil servant I mentioned before, my wife also saw bullying happen when she worked for a non-departmental organisation, the shouting started at ministerial level. The ministerial lackeys, the SPADs, are more interested in protection for their minister than getting a dob done well.
Of course they will. But anyway, agree with what you are saying generally
Yes they will, their private office is entirely staffed with junior CS, grade 8 and 9 mostly
To be perfectly honest I think he makes a good point, albeit “snowflakey” is a stupid way to put it
I know someone who is a 40 year career civil servant who reports directly to ministers. I'm told that what is happing it is nothing short of bullying and many good, very highly experienced and capable people are leaving or preparing to leave public service as a result of the atmosphere at work. This is not wrt to Raab, btw, it was before that.
Senior civil servants are used to working 60,70+ hour weeks, delivering complicated projects on time and they've done this for Labour governments as well. They work under a lot of pressure at that level, but there is a way to treat work colleagues and there is a way which is just not acceptable and is actually illegal.
It's hardly surprising this fucker depicts bullying as being actually in the perception of the snowflakes, he was caught grabbing and pushing MPs through the lobby quite recently iirc.
I agree that there a lot of very good and very committed civil servants at that level, but there are also a lot of crap ones and a huge amount or terrible ones at junior level which I know frustrates a lot of people in both government and the CS. I think a major issue is all the politically appointed SPADS who undermine the senior civil service and are pretty much accountable to no one. That's what I would like to see stopped.
Better pay and conditions (which includes not being screamed at and bullied by ministers) might help with attracting and retaining quality. I've got a couple of friends who've got about a decade each in the CS who've just jumped ship to private sector roles. They never expected to get rich doing the work, but they didn't expect to just barely be getting by either. I don't think either of them have directly been bullied, but everyone talks and knows the stories, so the conduct of the likes of Raab has far reaching implications for wider morale.
I know someone who is a 40 year career civil servant who reports directly to ministers. I'm told that what is happing it is nothing short of bullying and many good, very highly experienced and capable people are leaving or preparing to leave public service as a result of the atmosphere at work. This is not wrt to Raab, btw, it was before that.
Senior civil servants are used to working 60,70+ hour weeks, delivering complicated projects on time and they've done this for Labour governments as well. They work under a lot of pressure at that level, but there is a way to treat work colleagues and there is a way which is just not acceptable and is actually illegal.
It's hardly surprising this fucker depicts bullying as being actually in the perception of the snowflakes, he was caught grabbing and pushing MPs through the lobby quite recently iirc.
I agree that there a lot of very good and very committed civil servants at that level, but there are also a lot of crap ones and a huge amount or terrible ones at junior level which I know frustrates a lot of people in both government and the CS. I think a major issue is all the politically appointed SPADS who undermine the senior civil service and are pretty much accountable to no one. That's what I would like to see stopped.
Better pay and conditions (which includes not being screamed at and bullied by ministers) might help with attracting and retaining quality. I've got a couple of friends who've got about a decade each in the CS who've just jumped ship to private sector roles. They never expected to get rich doing the work, but they didn't expect to just barely be getting by either. I don't think either of them have directly been bullied, but everyone talks and knows the stories, so the conduct of the likes of Raab has far reaching implications for wider morale.
The Home Office was reported to have a horrendous turnover the last few years; not just because of the awful Ministers, but because people didn't particularly want to have to use the Gestapo tactics that were now policy.
I agree that there a lot of very good and very committed civil servants at that level, but there are also a lot of crap ones and a huge amount or terrible ones at junior level which I know frustrates a lot of people in both government and the CS. I think a major issue is all the politically appointed SPADS who undermine the senior civil service and are pretty much accountable to no one. That's what I would like to see stopped.
Better pay and conditions (which includes not being screamed at and bullied by ministers) might help with attracting and retaining quality. I've got a couple of friends who've got about a decade each in the CS who've just jumped ship to private sector roles. They never expected to get rich doing the work, but they didn't expect to just barely be getting by either. I don't think either of them have directly been bullied, but everyone talks and knows the stories, so the conduct of the likes of Raab has far reaching implications for wider morale.
The Home Office was reported to have a horrendous turnover the last few years; not just because of the awful Ministers, but because people didn't particularly want to have to use the Gestapo tactics that were now policy.
Yeah, another mate of mine says she probably would have left if she hadn't found herself working on something she can actually buy into (flammable cladding removal and replacement project). There's a certain amount of ideological disagreement you have to be comfortable with to be CS, but I'd imagine working under the current cunts has really tested how far many are willing to bend.
Better pay and conditions (which includes not being screamed at and bullied by ministers) might help with attracting and retaining quality. I've got a couple of friends who've got about a decade each in the CS who've just jumped ship to private sector roles. They never expected to get rich doing the work, but they didn't expect to just barely be getting by either. I don't think either of them have directly been bullied, but everyone talks and knows the stories, so the conduct of the likes of Raab has far reaching implications for wider morale.
The Home Office was reported to have a horrendous turnover the last few years; not just because of the awful Ministers, but because people didn't particularly want to have to use the Gestapo tactics that were now policy.
Yeah, another mate of mine says she probably would have left if she hadn't found herself working on something she can actually buy into (flammable cladding removal and replacement project). There's a certain amount of ideological disagreement you have to be comfortable with to be CS, but I'd imagine working under the current cunts has really tested how far many are willing to bend.
According to the wise folk on Twitter, all you need to do is sack them and replace them with true believers
Better pay and conditions (which includes not being screamed at and bullied by ministers) might help with attracting and retaining quality. I've got a couple of friends who've got about a decade each in the CS who've just jumped ship to private sector roles. They never expected to get rich doing the work, but they didn't expect to just barely be getting by either. I don't think either of them have directly been bullied, but everyone talks and knows the stories, so the conduct of the likes of Raab has far reaching implications for wider morale.
The Home Office was reported to have a horrendous turnover the last few years; not just because of the awful Ministers, but because people didn't particularly want to have to use the Gestapo tactics that were now policy.
Yeah, another mate of mine says she probably would have left if she hadn't found herself working on something she can actually buy into (flammable cladding removal and replacement project). There's a certain amount of ideological disagreement you have to be comfortable with to be CS, but I'd imagine working under the current cunts has really tested how far many are willing to bend.
I think there were a few things that started the decline in standards of personnel. Firstly when they started recruiting not entirely on merit, then most of the top recruits started applying for DfID instead of the more traditional Home Office and FCO and then with anything remotely interesting being contracted out to the big professional services companies and development organisations the top graduates realised they could go and work for them on miles better pay on projects they wanted to be involved in.
It has, IMO, fucked the civil service for HMG.
All the money you made will never buy back your soul
Turns out the BBC, in a internal report, concluded that by neglecting to point out that deficits and debt in a complicated functioning western economy, is nothing like a household budget or a credit card, is massively responsible for the 50 year, intergenerational economic collapse and decline we now face.
Allowing Osboune and Cameron to constantly repeat the lie about deficits and debt, allowed them to usher in massive austerity, unchallenged, that created the societal destruction, resentment and anger, which largely lead to brexit.
I mean I am not a journalist but I was pointing out the false equivalence as soon as it was happenning 12 years ago.
This is where all the shit started, that you can tell your grandkids, when they ask why we are still fucked in 25 years.
Tories had nothing to jam in our faces, after trickle down ecominics was shown and proven to be bollocks, and when even David Cameron said he didn't believe in it, so were desperate for some other bullshit to try to prevent us taxing them until they have to all fuck off, and flee the country after the 2008 global crash.
tabascoboy wrote: Wed Feb 01, 2023 2:06 pm
Blimey, is the Speaker growing a pair and doing what he's supposed to at last?
Gullis is a shitstain of a human being should have been called out in The House a long time ago
Bet the Head Prefect was somewhat put out with Mr Speaker practising calling Starmer "Prime Minister"
I'm sure Mad Nad will be as hard hitting as Andrew Neil
The former culture secretary Nadine Dorries is to host her own Friday night talk show on TalkTV and her first programme will feature an exclusive interview with Boris Johnson.
Dorries is the latest former Conservative cabinet minister to get a television show after the fall of Johnson’s government.
Fortunately there will only be a couple of dozen people watching while the fat slug spews his lies
SaintK wrote: Wed Feb 01, 2023 5:25 pm
I'm sure Mad Nad will be as hard hitting as Andrew Neil
The former culture secretary Nadine Dorries is to host her own Friday night talk show on TalkTV and her first programme will feature an exclusive interview with Boris Johnson.
Dorries is the latest former Conservative cabinet minister to get a television show after the fall of Johnson’s government.
Fortunately there will only be a couple of dozen people watching while the fat slug spews his lies
I’d have thought Mad Nad sucking up to Boris would be more suited to Television X than Talk TV
SaintK wrote: Wed Feb 01, 2023 5:25 pm
I'm sure Mad Nad will be as hard hitting as Andrew Neil
The former culture secretary Nadine Dorries is to host her own Friday night talk show on TalkTV and her first programme will feature an exclusive interview with Boris Johnson.
Dorries is the latest former Conservative cabinet minister to get a television show after the fall of Johnson’s government.
Fortunately there will only be a couple of dozen people watching while the fat slug spews his lies
I’d have thought Mad Nad sucking up to Boris would be more suited to Television X than Talk TV
I'm more expecting her to kneel down and suck him off.
tabascoboy wrote: Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:43 am
"New Tory civil war"? We can but hope...
She is truly mental if she thinks she can come back from that
At the end of Q4 last year she had a 10% approval rating on Yougov. 10%!
18% were neutral.
That is 28% of people asked who really should be taking a long hard look at themselves, or maybe they were mixing her up with someone else.
I know that there are those who would vote for particular parties no matter what, but it's been thirteen years of this shit from a long line of worsening nonentities who have no talent for the jobs in government and no motivation seemingly beyond their own personal ambition.
EnergiseR2 wrote: Wed Feb 01, 2023 7:27 pm
That astonishing that there is a market for that. Its actually astonishing
Tbh Sky news now looks just a bit right wing compared with this channel and GB News
You don't need a huge view base to be influential, which might be what they're seeking. Today for instance on the BBC (radio4) can get only around half a million, but is hugely influential given who listens and who cares about who listens
This time last year I was fairly convinced that the Tories would be in power into the 2030s, their electoral coalition just never reacted to anything, polling was always above 30%. The combination of dog whistle bigotry delivered in Johnson "gags" (for the stupid), empty boosterism slogans (also for the stupid), and every policy being weighted in favour of those aged 60+ (their core constituency), just looked unbreakable. Even post Johnson it looked potentially viable, until Truss did a Pearl Harbour on the Tory's own constituency somehow attacking both house prices (through increased interest rates, made worse by her policies, which the Tories are now carrying the entire blame for) and pensions.
Events etc ... this time last year I was wrong and the Tories now look fucked. They're even losing the stupid vote, Reform UK are on 5% to 9%.
I'm noticing a lot of the commentary isn't really happening under the assumption "the Tories are fucked" though. It seems to instead assume somehow the Tories turn it around in the polling, the Tories somehow don't get crushed in a GE, losing badly but not that badly. That's the general vibe. Sunak is out of his depth though, and everyone available to him is one of corrupt/incompetent/unknown/moronic. He's also hamstrung by something I thought would happen, having a near billionaire as Tory party leader and PM, is just too easy a target. It's not obvious how the Tories claw back ground in the polling.
So as things stand the outcome in a GE in about a year and half, looks like the Tories getting 19%-25%, and being wiped out with under 100 seats. They'll have so few seats they'll be struggling to fill a shadow front bench, select committees, and have backbenchers in the Commons asking questions. 19%-25% of the vote will translate into about 10%-15% of the seats, and many people will feel unrepresented as Labour implements their manifesto almost literally unopposed.
Have to wonder what happens to the UK right under conditions where the Tories are annihilated. There has the be a risk the large swivel eyed component in the Tory membership drags their party further into the populist/stupid/bigoted madhouse, "something something, Brexit has been betrayed and something immigration". Or the Tories lose enough of their stupid vote (and the swivel eyed members) to some party to the right of them, for them to have to fight a quite hopeless battle against them as they slowly bleed out.
Looking at what the Tory billionaire backers are running with in the Telegraph/Mail/Express, and the new shitholes that are Talk TV/GB News. If the Tories suffer a huge defeat, it's not looking likely that they'll respond by rationally taking responsibility and becoming more moderate.
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What exactly is James Cleverly doing to earn his keep as Foreign Secretary? Is BJ just grandstanding or has he actually been sub rosa given the role and allowed forget completely about his own constituents while being funded even more at the tax payers expense?
It's not just the Brexit was a mistake, & the type of Brexit, but also the time wasted on it, & now the desperate taping of dildos to donkey heads, to convince voters they'll get their Unicorns !
tabascoboy wrote: Thu Feb 02, 2023 1:05 pm
What exactly is James Cleverly doing to earn his keep as Foreign Secretary? Is BJ just grandstanding or has he actually been sub rosa given the role and allowed forget completely about his own constituents while being funded even more at the tax payers expense?
Big dog is on the comeback trail using Ukraine as his own very own Churchill moment. The kind of man he is using someone else's war for his own cosplay. Also Liz Truss is coming back. I, for one, can't wait for the Tory party to fatally rip itself apart over the coming year. It's been a long time since the brexit referendum, but it's been inevitable ever since.
Never write the Tories off. They have been gerrymandering, disenfranchising and generally neutering the Electoral Commission to ensure the impact of people voting for any other Party is minimised.
And, unlike Labour, the Tories always bury the skeletons and malcontents at election time to present a united front to the electorate. They are no less factional than Labour, but they prefer to fight each other whilst in power rather than be a morally pure opposition.
Hal Jordan wrote: Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:34 am
Never write the Tories off. They have been gerrymandering, disenfranchising and generally neutering the Electoral Commission to ensure the impact of people voting for any other Party is minimised.
And, unlike Labour, the Tories always bury the skeletons and malcontents at election time to present a united front to the electorate. They are no less factional than Labour, but they prefer to fight each other whilst in power rather than be a morally pure opposition.
Spot on. Some the loonies on the fringes of the labour party would rather see a tory government they can complain about than an ‘impure’ leftish one.
“It was a pet, not an animal. It had a name, you don't eat things with names, this is horrific!”
Hal Jordan wrote: Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:34 am
Never write the Tories off. They have been gerrymandering, disenfranchising and generally neutering the Electoral Commission to ensure the impact of people voting for any other Party is minimised.
And, unlike Labour, the Tories always bury the skeletons and malcontents at election time to present a united front to the electorate. They are no less factional than Labour, but they prefer to fight each other whilst in power rather than be a morally pure opposition.
Not this time though, they're various factions are irreconcilable. They won't be a united front after 4 years of internal fighting like rats in the sack.
Also the Tories had an electoral offering, they sold the family silver for people to feel wealthier with Thatcher, they cleaned up the mess (admittedly they made) with Major (they won't do that), with Cameron and May you had housing wealth run out of kilter with everything and that made a lot of people on paper significantly wealthier (at the expense of a functioning country) and Boris you had that + get brexit done. They offer nothing good. They're done.
_Os_ wrote: Thu Feb 02, 2023 12:57 pm
So what are we actually looking at now?
This time last year I was fairly convinced that the Tories would be in power into the 2030s, their electoral coalition just never reacted to anything, polling was always above 30%. The combination of dog whistle bigotry delivered in Johnson "gags" (for the stupid), empty boosterism slogans (also for the stupid), and every policy being weighted in favour of those aged 60+ (their core constituency), just looked unbreakable. Even post Johnson it looked potentially viable, until Truss did a Pearl Harbour on the Tory's own constituency somehow attacking both house prices (through increased interest rates, made worse by her policies, which the Tories are now carrying the entire blame for) and pensions.
Events etc ... this time last year I was wrong and the Tories now look fucked. They're even losing the stupid vote, Reform UK are on 5% to 9%.
I'm noticing a lot of the commentary isn't really happening under the assumption "the Tories are fucked" though. It seems to instead assume somehow the Tories turn it around in the polling, the Tories somehow don't get crushed in a GE, losing badly but not that badly. That's the general vibe. Sunak is out of his depth though, and everyone available to him is one of corrupt/incompetent/unknown/moronic. He's also hamstrung by something I thought would happen, having a near billionaire as Tory party leader and PM, is just too easy a target. It's not obvious how the Tories claw back ground in the polling.
So as things stand the outcome in a GE in about a year and half, looks like the Tories getting 19%-25%, and being wiped out with under 100 seats. They'll have so few seats they'll be struggling to fill a shadow front bench, select committees, and have backbenchers in the Commons asking questions. 19%-25% of the vote will translate into about 10%-15% of the seats, and many people will feel unrepresented as Labour implements their manifesto almost literally unopposed.
Have to wonder what happens to the UK right under conditions where the Tories are annihilated. There has the be a risk the large swivel eyed component in the Tory membership drags their party further into the populist/stupid/bigoted madhouse, "something something, Brexit has been betrayed and something immigration". Or the Tories lose enough of their stupid vote (and the swivel eyed members) to some party to the right of them, for them to have to fight a quite hopeless battle against them as they slowly bleed out.
Looking at what the Tory billionaire backers are running with in the Telegraph/Mail/Express, and the new shitholes that are Talk TV/GB News. If the Tories suffer a huge defeat, it's not looking likely that they'll respond by rationally taking responsibility and becoming more moderate.
This is the biggest problem. The USA's politics have always been insane but what really created the current state of awfulness is a desparate right wing moving further right to "energise" the base. It's a straight line from Sarah Palin & the Tea Party all the way through to Q-Anon and Marjorie Taylor Greene. No matter how much of the original shift was a cold-eyed political calculation with no real sharing of beliefs with the people they were pandering to, they lost control of it and now the crazies are in charge of a giant political machine with a huge media reach that's already happy to debase themselves for money and power.
Sorry, I got a bit gloomy after the Twitter Algorithm gleefully threw right wing reactionaries in my face and then the Quins board were all "DID YOU KNOW THAT THESE DAYS, THEY THROW YOU IN JAIL JUST FOR THINKING ABOUT SINGING DELILAH?" and the state of the world felt quite bleak
_Os_ wrote: Thu Feb 02, 2023 12:57 pm
So what are we actually looking at now?
This time last year I was fairly convinced that the Tories would be in power into the 2030s, their electoral coalition just never reacted to anything, polling was always above 30%. The combination of dog whistle bigotry delivered in Johnson "gags" (for the stupid), empty boosterism slogans (also for the stupid), and every policy being weighted in favour of those aged 60+ (their core constituency), just looked unbreakable. Even post Johnson it looked potentially viable, until Truss did a Pearl Harbour on the Tory's own constituency somehow attacking both house prices (through increased interest rates, made worse by her policies, which the Tories are now carrying the entire blame for) and pensions.
Events etc ... this time last year I was wrong and the Tories now look fucked. They're even losing the stupid vote, Reform UK are on 5% to 9%.
I'm noticing a lot of the commentary isn't really happening under the assumption "the Tories are fucked" though. It seems to instead assume somehow the Tories turn it around in the polling, the Tories somehow don't get crushed in a GE, losing badly but not that badly. That's the general vibe. Sunak is out of his depth though, and everyone available to him is one of corrupt/incompetent/unknown/moronic. He's also hamstrung by something I thought would happen, having a near billionaire as Tory party leader and PM, is just too easy a target. It's not obvious how the Tories claw back ground in the polling.
So as things stand the outcome in a GE in about a year and half, looks like the Tories getting 19%-25%, and being wiped out with under 100 seats. They'll have so few seats they'll be struggling to fill a shadow front bench, select committees, and have backbenchers in the Commons asking questions. 19%-25% of the vote will translate into about 10%-15% of the seats, and many people will feel unrepresented as Labour implements their manifesto almost literally unopposed.
Have to wonder what happens to the UK right under conditions where the Tories are annihilated. There has the be a risk the large swivel eyed component in the Tory membership drags their party further into the populist/stupid/bigoted madhouse, "something something, Brexit has been betrayed and something immigration". Or the Tories lose enough of their stupid vote (and the swivel eyed members) to some party to the right of them, for them to have to fight a quite hopeless battle against them as they slowly bleed out.
Looking at what the Tory billionaire backers are running with in the Telegraph/Mail/Express, and the new shitholes that are Talk TV/GB News. If the Tories suffer a huge defeat, it's not looking likely that they'll respond by rationally taking responsibility and becoming more moderate.
This is the biggest problem. The USA's politics have always been insane but what really created the current state of awfulness is a desparate right wing moving further right to "energise" the base. It's a straight line from Sarah Palin & the Tea Party all the way through to Q-Anon and Marjorie Taylor Greene. No matter how much of the original shift was a cold-eyed political calculation with no real sharing of beliefs with the people they were pandering to, they lost control of it and now the crazies are in charge of a giant political machine with a huge media reach that's already happy to debase themselves for money and power.
It's going to get worse before it gets better.
It usually takes a war of some kind to remind everyone of how fucking stupid populist jingoism is.
Liz Truss is breaking her silence as she blames a "powerful economic establishment" and her own Conservative Party for her downfall.
The former prime minister says that she stands by her radical policy agenda but "the forces against it were too great" for it to succeed.
SaintK wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 11:09 am
Holy shit!! She's absolutely delusional!!!
Liz Truss is breaking her silence as she blames a "powerful economic establishment" and her own Conservative Party for her downfall.
The former prime minister says that she stands by her radical policy agenda but "the forces against it were too great" for it to succeed.
This is great for Labour, keep it in the news that Liz Truss cratered the economy and is to blame for the house price decrease and mortgage increase. Also the loons in her party will back her, others are rallying behind Big Dog. The Tory "sensibles" have all been purged or left. Full loony civil war shortly followed. The Tories have f*cked their electoral coalition and have absolutely no ideas as their economic policies have failed three successive times and they all hate each other. Superb.
SaintK wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 11:09 am
Holy shit!! She's absolutely delusional!!!
Liz Truss is breaking her silence as she blames a "powerful economic establishment" and her own Conservative Party for her downfall.
The former prime minister says that she stands by her radical policy agenda but "the forces against it were too great" for it to succeed.
