The country needs change but politicians need to listen to us
Rishi Sunak plans to call a general election for 18 months’ time, in the autumn of 2024. This provides the Tories with a window of opportunity to prove to they can be trusted to lead us for another five years.
In some ways it’s a shrewd move, as it frames the measure of success around the Rishi years and hopes to disassociate itself from the previous 13, which as we all know have been one long dream. In fact, it’s been record breaking - record breaking waiting times, record breaking inflation and record breaking madness. In 2010 you could buy a Jedward single that featured Vanilla Ice, heat your home for under three grand a week and see a GP.
So, it should be a walk in the park for Labour and the other opposition parties.
After all Labour are at least 20 points ahead in terms of voting intention, so what’s Labour’s plan?
Well, phase one is completed – get rid of Jeremy Corbyn. What an absolute sausage that bloke was. Phase two will be to realign the Labour Party with its values. It's all very well mid-term saying how bad the government are doing, that’s easy peasy lemon squeezy.
However, to appeal to the ‘red wall’ or win over the ‘Stevenage women’, Labour and or (insert any party you like) will have to appeal to a group of people they have spent 10 years alienating.
Since Labour lurched towards an elite socialism the UK has always rejected, they have become the party of anti-Britain, provictimhood, and the vehement supporters of everything the working class don’t care about.
Brexit won the last election for Boris - a Brexit which Corbyn would have dreamed about in the '70s, '80s and '90s.
I didn’t vote for Brexit, but I quickly understood the reasons people did.
Labour didn’t and they paid the price, heavily. During Covid, no one had a clue what to do for the best but, again, Labour either blindly went along with everything the Tories did or opposed any sense of liberty.
We all need change (please) and for that to happen politicians will need to stop telling everyone what they should do or think and start listening to the people.
By the way, ‘the people’ don’t live in Islington, they live in Waterlooville and Leigh Park. Whether they like it or not.