Post by northwestman on Jan 26, 2023 11:58:17 GMT 1
It will now take a miracle for the voters to forgive the Tories. Our strike-addled NHS has imploded, with another 2,837 excess deaths in the most recent week. Some 20 per cent more people are dying than normal; there have only been eight worse weeks since 2010 and all of those were during the first two waves of Covid.
Yet the Government’s lack of empathy is shocking, its refusal to admit that we are in a major emergency baffling. What is the plan? Why aren’t hospitals being put into special measures, or a supremo brought in to tackle the crisis? Do we even have a functional Government, or is it merely a Potemkin construct run by people who pretend to be in charge and enjoy the trappings of office, such as the chauffeur-driven cars and grace and favour residences, but are terrified of actually governing?
It’s not just the health service that is failing monstrously while the Tories watch uselessly: much of the rest of Britain is breaking too. Consumers were paid to use less electricity this week, ushering in a new era of explicit rationing. Trains and roads are in an appalling state. The economy is flatlining and wages are going down in real terms. Taxes are eye-wateringly high while far too many people depend on the state for their income. The housing crisis is getting worse. Policing is a disgrace. And the boats keep coming.
Many of the Tory voters of 2019 feel that they have been taken for mugs.
Their bitter disappointment will reinforce a disillusionment towards the traditional parties that has been building for two decades. Middle England has been desperate for change since the mid-2000s, and deeply dissatisfied by the status quo. Many felt that they had been lied to over immigration, over the Iraq war – and then came MPs expenses and the financial crisis. Brexit was the great opportunity to kick the political class, and Boris Johnson, the quintessential change candidate, harnessed this mood beautifully in 2019.
Voters will plump for Keir Starmer in 2024: they will do so with zero enthusiasm though his majority could be immense, especially if Richard Tice’s Reform UK party continues to grab votes on the Right. However, the Labour leader is no anti-establishment candidate and has no fresh ideas. He will win by default. His failure will fuel the public’s fury at mainstream politics.
Starmer will inherit a basket case and immediately make everything worse. His war on non-doms will further undermine growth and Labour has no meaningful plans to tackle the collapse of the NHS, the housing crisis, the failure of schools or stagnant real wages. With spending already at record levels, resources will be scarce: taxes will go up further but the money will be squandered. The nationalisation of GP practices will further centralise a failed socialist system. Starmer’s energy, transport, woke and net zero policies are worse than the Tories’.
Daily Telegraph.
Starmer would of course have the opportunity to revolutionise the voting system by bringing in PR. The last Labour Conference overwhelmingly voted for PR, but pure naked self interest in retaining First Past the Post means that Starmer has chosen to ignore this. Equally, the Tories have no interest whatsoever in PR, having sidelined Clegg's attempts to bring it in during the Coalition by putting forward a complex AV system bound to be rejected by the electorate.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/lib-dem-report-blames-nick-clegg-for-debacle-over-lost-av-referendum-2350426.html
Yet the Government’s lack of empathy is shocking, its refusal to admit that we are in a major emergency baffling. What is the plan? Why aren’t hospitals being put into special measures, or a supremo brought in to tackle the crisis? Do we even have a functional Government, or is it merely a Potemkin construct run by people who pretend to be in charge and enjoy the trappings of office, such as the chauffeur-driven cars and grace and favour residences, but are terrified of actually governing?
It’s not just the health service that is failing monstrously while the Tories watch uselessly: much of the rest of Britain is breaking too. Consumers were paid to use less electricity this week, ushering in a new era of explicit rationing. Trains and roads are in an appalling state. The economy is flatlining and wages are going down in real terms. Taxes are eye-wateringly high while far too many people depend on the state for their income. The housing crisis is getting worse. Policing is a disgrace. And the boats keep coming.
Many of the Tory voters of 2019 feel that they have been taken for mugs.
Their bitter disappointment will reinforce a disillusionment towards the traditional parties that has been building for two decades. Middle England has been desperate for change since the mid-2000s, and deeply dissatisfied by the status quo. Many felt that they had been lied to over immigration, over the Iraq war – and then came MPs expenses and the financial crisis. Brexit was the great opportunity to kick the political class, and Boris Johnson, the quintessential change candidate, harnessed this mood beautifully in 2019.
Voters will plump for Keir Starmer in 2024: they will do so with zero enthusiasm though his majority could be immense, especially if Richard Tice’s Reform UK party continues to grab votes on the Right. However, the Labour leader is no anti-establishment candidate and has no fresh ideas. He will win by default. His failure will fuel the public’s fury at mainstream politics.
Starmer will inherit a basket case and immediately make everything worse. His war on non-doms will further undermine growth and Labour has no meaningful plans to tackle the collapse of the NHS, the housing crisis, the failure of schools or stagnant real wages. With spending already at record levels, resources will be scarce: taxes will go up further but the money will be squandered. The nationalisation of GP practices will further centralise a failed socialist system. Starmer’s energy, transport, woke and net zero policies are worse than the Tories’.
Daily Telegraph.
Starmer would of course have the opportunity to revolutionise the voting system by bringing in PR. The last Labour Conference overwhelmingly voted for PR, but pure naked self interest in retaining First Past the Post means that Starmer has chosen to ignore this. Equally, the Tories have no interest whatsoever in PR, having sidelined Clegg's attempts to bring it in during the Coalition by putting forward a complex AV system bound to be rejected by the electorate.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/lib-dem-report-blames-nick-clegg-for-debacle-over-lost-av-referendum-2350426.html
