With the local elections coming up, there is only one piece of advice I can give you, especially if you need a money saving tip, don’t vote Conservative.
I have written many times that I am no Labour supporter. My views lean towards the liberal end of the political spectrum but if voting Labour will get these Tories out of office anywhere, then I will gladly do it! The argument that Labour has no experience in governing or that no of their front bench has ministerial experience. Is a spurious one. The Conservatives have been in government for 12 years, so how could an opposition gain experience? Boris Johnson had no experience of being a PM and although he had been a shockingly underwhelming FS, they still elected him leader! It is blindingly obvious that we need a change of government but I fear the electorate will still in spite of everything vote the conservatives in once again. Tory voters are disillusioned with them but we it comes to it they will still vote for them?
The problems besetting our land will not be solved by a Labour government, they are to deep and have been going on for far to long and yes some of these long term problems were caused by mismanagement of the previous Labour government of Blair and Brown. Indeed no government even if it was a well intentioned Conservative one can solve our many many issues. Radical policies are required to resolve the big issues. In order to make our system fairer, we the electorate must take responsibility and change our views, it makes no difference who our political masters are unless we have the will to make the changes that are needed. Unfortunately in a capitalist society, the money and the power it affords, is king and until that fundamental premise is altered change will never happen in the fair and balanced way, most of us would like.
I suspect nobody has the answer but like me everybody knows we need massive overhauling of our current system. I only wish I was clever enough to know the answers. My thinking is clouded by years of living in a western democracy under the same system and years of complaining about it! Such radical change is required that it will require minds far more clever than mine and with a bravery and courage that I have never possessed.
Stay well
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