Sunday, 13 August 2023

Tories Culture War Debacle

In more excitable countries Environmental issues have been forced into a Left v Right position but thankfully not in Britain where it is completely void of ideology except for those trying very hard to make it an issue which is working about as well as anything else this clueless mob try to do, Climate Change is very much a concern for all sides regardless of the colour of the rosette you wear.  
Deciding they are not onto a winner with that one they have tried the NHS and how left wing Doctors are ruining the NHS and making it impossible to cut waiting lists but as one Doctor said, Rishi will be furious when they find out who had been running it, and under-funding it, for the last 14 years. Include the headlines that they have paid over £1m so far for Agency Doctors and Consultants to cover the strikes which is more than if they had just paid the regular staff the raise they were asking for to end the strikes then you can see why they don't particularity want the spotlight to fall on that issue.
After much head scratching at the polls showing they are facing a royal kicking at the next Election, the latest choice of issue to stoke an ideological difference is immigration and last week they announced a 'small boat week' to show the tough line they are taking with illegal immigration and force Labour into taking a position which they can then attack.
The special week ended the week with 39 migrants being taken off a barge in Dorset because of Legionnaires Disease, an uptick in channel crossings and the total number of people recorded making the journey passing the 100,000 mark and six people losing their lives in the Channel after their boat sank in the Channel.
As for Labour's position, they said that they would be forced to keep the Barge's because of Conservative Cuts to Immigration Staff, they will inherit such a mess that it would take time to sort it out so they would have no choice but to use them at first.
The best Downing Street can hope for is that by the time of the next election, the economy, healthcare and migration will have improved but such has been the disaster of the Conservatives since 2010 and the nation is in such a state that any stones they throw will be coming back in triplicate to their glass house.

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