Wednesday 27 December 2023

Only This Government Until Spring Hopefully

Although they won't admit it, the Conservative Government know that their time is up, every poll shows Labour with a substantial lead which even the most optimistic supporter didn't see even in their wildest dreams, an 80 seat majority should take two or even three election cycles to erode but that shows just how awful the Conservatives have been since Boris Johnson's landslide win in 2019.
Since they replaced Labour in 2010, we have had David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak and all have followed an increasingly right wing agenda, that Nigel Farage once of UKIP who Cameron dismissed as fruitcakes, nutters is being discussed as a potential Conservative Party leader it shows just how disastrously to the right the Conservatives have gone.
So with the blue side of the house about to be replaced by the red side as son as May, what can we expect from Keir Starmer led Labour Party?
Quite cleverly the Labour Leader hasn't given away too many details, the Napoleon quote of never interrupting your enemy when they are making mistakes has been a wise move as the Conservatives rip themselves apart but as the election cycle gears up, he will have to start putting out exactly what we can expect when he gets the keys to Number 10.
Starmer has announced five missions which will form the backbone of Labour’s election manifesto - Get Britain Building Again, Switch on Great British Energy, Get The NHS Back on It's Feet, Take Back Our Streets and Break Down the Barriers to Opportunity which are admirable but they come with no or very little details of how these things will be achieved or how they will be afforded.
We are where we are after 14 years of Conservative austerity, Brexit, lock-down and PPE scandals, a ruined economy and right wing immigration and economic polices so we have to hope that Labour are better than the people they replace because if they turn out to be just as appalling then our slide down the greasy pole will turn into a freefall and the only Great thing about Britain will be the exodus to other, better run nations.