Saturday 4 May 2024

Hey Tories, Leave That Rishi There

I don't blame the Conservatives for refusing to call a General Election although after the Local Elections this week, they have been left in little doubt that when they do get around to it, a vast majority of them will be looking for new employment so Turkeys not voting for Christmas seems an apt metaphor.
The party, which brought the UK austerity, Brexit and an almost weekly scandal has been consistently trailing Labour by around 20 points in opinion polls and results from local elections held across England on Thursday where the Conservatives lost 453 councils appear to confirm that they are on their way out of power after 14 years.
The feeling of overwhelming incompetence surrounding the Tories was summed up when Boris Johnson turned up to vote in his South Oxfordshire district without a valid ID which was a rule he personally introduced in 2022.
With an election having to be called before January 2025 due to the five year Fixed-Term Parliament Act, the whispers are that the election will be November 14th and we know Keir Starmer will be in the red corner but it is unclear if Rishi Sunak will be cowering in the opposite one as gossip of his own side removing him continue to swirl.
As a Labour Party member i was obviously hoping that the Conservatives would get a good shellacking but i was hoping for a moderate walloping and i am now thinking maybe the trouncing was a bit too good and the hapless, unpopular Rishi will be replaced by somebody a lot more competent which could hinder Labours plans.
Labour lost the 2019 election by so much that they are going to have to undertake an almost unprecedented swing to take power, their starting position is so far back that in normal times it would take a minimum of two or possibly three general elections to overhaul and if the Conservatives kick out Rishi for someone the public could warm to such as the moderate Penny Mordant rather than an instant dislikable right wing nutjob such as Suella Braverman then the Labour lead could narrow considerably.
Hopefully Rishi is deluded enough to believe he could turn things around but the one thing the Conservatives are great at is stabbing their leader in the back, front and both sides if they think it is going to cost them power but i say leave Rishi alone, he is doing a great job, a great job of making sure the Tories will be a bad memory by 2025.