Will you vote in the next general election? Can you be bothered to make your mark in a voting system that does not actually elect those who get the most votes? First past the post is redundant and it certainly does not reflect the way votes are cast. It seems inevitable that we will get a Labour government, remind you of anything? If you are old enough and lived through the eighties into the nineties you may remember a certain Maggie Thatcher had been PM for some time and it all ended when John Major realised Britain was tired of more Conservative government. Resonate in any way? Tony Blair came in on a wave of popularity and much of the country cheered as they anticipated change for the better? He did some good things but ultimately he was a man who could slip under a snake wearing a top hat!
The political merry-go-round spun again and in came a coalition, which ended up destroying the Liberal Democrat’s and sending Nick Clegg into the wilderness. We got Cameron and more austerity until his disaster, needing to pacify the Eurosceptics, in his party, leading to a referendum and his resignation based on the result. Since then it has been chaos as they desperately tried to impose Brexit. On the way it tripped up May and gave us Johnston, we all knew what he was like and yet! A massive majority has meant that no matter how disastrous our, corrupt, scandalised, sleazy or lying the Tories have been, they have retained power and imposed draconian policies that take away our rights. They have failed to live up to any of their “promises” and along the way all our lives have become worse. Not withstanding the pandemic, which they mishandled badly (I not sure any govt. would have handled it well) mired in one controversy after another, charges of bullying, ministers and PM fined, corruption on an industrial scale, we now have a situation where enough of us will send them packing, or so the polls suggest? The Labour opposition has been poor and they have not handled themselves well but the Conservatives have damaged themselves so badly that any opposition would look good by comparison! I do not envy Labour if they win, they will be damned if they do and damned if they don’t! How do you reverse all those years of Tory destruction? Starmer is playing a role, to be as uncontroversial as possible, not committing himself to to much, how can he, he and his party are not in power and until they get behind the wheel, they won’t know!
In my humble option we have to start the path back to rejoining the EU, they maybe corruption at the top and rules and regulations we don’t like but ask yourself has really been any better being out than in? Within we could have engineered change, we were after all, the second most powerful voice after Germany, that would no longer be the case as our economy is a shadow of the what it was before we left. the damage done will take years to repair assuming it even can be.
One last thing today, if I see another fucking word about Liz Truss and some kind of comeback I swear I am going to scream! She needed to fuck off and never be heard fo again. Mind I could name loads of Tory MP’s who need to do the same. How you doing Uxbridge!!!!!
Stay well
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