You'd think that a government with a big majority and high on the polls would have little to worry about, and yet the Tories are showing signs of being very worried. How long is it before failings on Brexit and Covid 19 catch up with them, corruption is rumbled and Scotland declares it has had enough, leaving them as the party that killed the country? Their behaviour suggests that they think the answer is 'not long.'
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They’ve taken a page from the Trump/GOP handbook with the introduction of voter suppression i.e. photo id to vote.
Richard,
Thank you
A few questions……….
The Communist Government in what was then Czechoslovakia fell, as far as I can make out because it lost the support of the Police. Clearly The Tories have done little to curry favour with them, unlike Thatcher and Police Officers and their families will be subject to the same issues of declining pay and declining public services like the rest of us, ditto the Armed Forces.
Might we see a decided lack of enthusiasm towards protecting The Government in future?
Secondly you talk about Welsh Independence, as has been pointed out there are only something like 23(?) crossings on the England/Scotland border, and by and large not many people live close to it, while the border between Northern Ireland and The Republic has countless crossings.
So what exactly are the issues that an England/Wales border might raise?
Wales is problematic in this regard
The big problem is going north to south without going into England, at least by train
The ABC is surely something like this:
Aid budget; Adultery
Brexit, Boarders
Corruption, climate crisis, council funding
Devolution
Epidemic COVID, Employment
Financialization
Green recovery failures, Greensill
Health – NHS and care sector; Housing; Home office
Indyref2; Independence of Scotland,
Justice sector
K?
Local government finances, Long COVID
…
Race report
I’m sure someone could come up with a better list. I encourage them to share!
K for kleptocracy
But the next election isn’t for another 3 years, unless you think it might come early?
The coalition government pushed through the Fixed Term Parliament Act in order to protect themselves from any adverse political consequences of their irresponsible and criminal austerity policy. The fact that we had elections in 2017 and 2019 wrenched the fig leaf away from that useless piece of legislation, and Johnson’s 2019 manifesto contained a pledge to repeal it, as it now serves the Tories to be able to cut and run at the first opportunity.
Richard,
As you well know, Holyrood is the Scottish Parliament not the “Scottish Assembly” you mention at 5 min 40 secs into your video.
Just a wee slip, I am sure.
I know
A mistake – but I can’t re-record fur everything
There’s over 1000 days for this kakistocracy to carry on with with their treacherous malfeasance. Plenty more time to line their, and their pals pockets. With a lamestream media and and a woeful oppostion giving them a free pass, this kleptocracy has only got into 3rd gear.
What does Labour stand for? Apart from ‘we are not the Tories’.
At present that is not enough, even Blair had to have ‘a vision’ even if it was still on the Neoliberal road to financial serfdom to debt for the majority, just neatly packaged, and marketed straight out of the Edward Bernays focus group cookbook.
Boris will play the Putin (Vladislav Surkov being the architect of this confusion) game of not standing for anything to stay in power, ie flipping from big government projects ( for the red wall) to classic small government spite to appease ‘Disgusted from Tunbridge Wells’
So two questions arise;
1) Is Starmer keeping his powder dry so that the Tories don’t steal his policies?
2) a) Is it the middle England ( Ford Mondeo man) /the white working class( white van man) voter?
b) Or is it the indebted high rent young (under 35), zero hour, no union workers, the worried parents who have no housing asset to pay for ; children’s education and house deposit, and thier own pension, (knowing thier government pension will not cover even the rent) voter?
Richard, keep up the good work, your posts are invaluable to those of us looking for foundational facts/revelations/wisdom build upon…
I have no intention of stopping
There was long debate in the Murphy household last night on what Labour’s for, largely between the eldest and his mother. Neither could be sure.
The Labour Party is the Tories trump card – sadly