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AbiM's avatar
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'Relinquish power to people who will do what the electorate wants'. But said people don’t exist. All parties are there to obstruct the public will. All parties are puppets to the globalist agenda. Which marches on quite nicely.

Michael L's avatar

Another one bites the dust, but never mind, the next one will be just as bad. The last 25 years has shown it already, the UK is a basket case and nothing is going to save it until people finally realise that you cannot pay millions of other people something for doing nothing.

Nicholas Hughes's avatar

In many ways Labour are in a worse state than any other political party. They have two parts of their core ethos: The Fabian Way or the Keir Hardie Up The Workers Way. They've been going down the Fabian path since 1983 and Up The Workers was a proven failure and will fail again with its central tenet being throw money at unions to make them go away. To become a patriotic party of paternalism and benevolent socialism as Eric Hobsbawm wanted or to continue down the Fabian identity politics, blank state, unpatriotic path? Neither works.

Reform don't have a core ethos to refer to. They're core tenets being "Be Resentful", "Repeat the Slogans" and "1001 Internet Insults to Hurl At Anyone Who Isn't In Reform". Resentment is a short lived fuel and we're already seeing newly elected Reform councillors falling by the wayside whilst Zia Yusuf and the equally repellent Rael Braverman keep hurling lies and insults.

The Greens also have split loyalties but they can trade on outsider status for now. At some point the airheads and the Islamists are going to clash and there's only going to be one winner and it won't be the scrawny purple haired Tamaras.

The LibDems continue to baffle as to why they exist and as for the Tories, they're still on probation with me. They've got the coherent core ethos, if they choose to refer to it. They pretty much ignored it for 20 years but a heavy defeat can be a teacher. At the moment every time they say or do something properly conservative, they get a little reward. A long way to go but the signs are they are finally learning...but they've got to keep the annoying Prosper group of wets well away. We shall see.

Niall Warry's avatar

This sums up Labour nicely:-

"so all it can do is tread water until it drowns. There are no lifelines here. The struggling swimmer is cramping up and nobody even wants to save them."

As to Reform UK I totally agree the best we can hope for from them is to act as a wrecking ball on the uni-party until something much much better evolves and as I've said many times before that will hopefully come at the election after the next.

Nicholas Hughes's avatar

The problem is Reform ARE the uniparty. All within Reform, none outside Reform, none against Reform.

Niall Warry's avatar

No really to the same level as the old LibLabCon as was!

Michael L's avatar

As it appears that we are not going to get more oil or gas out of the North Sea, with no doubt ever- increasing energy prices, it will be irrelevant who is in charge, as we become more and more broke.

Michael Round's avatar

Oh the irony. The Mandelson scandal results in the PMship for Mandelson's number 1 protogee. He'll be back in govt in some capacity by 2027 if Streeting wins. Ministerial advisor for Men in Dresses. They never lose. Effective change is never possible until you shoot those in power.

Get out of the way's avatar

So when will 81 Labour MPs put their names against a challenger and will the majority of Labour members vote for them because Starmer has absolutely no intention of leaving and the NEC can't force the issue.