Bloody hate politics at the moment. There is no party that represents me and there are so few MPs I think gave integrity AND capability. It feels apocalyptic, like we’re on the cusp of a political implosion.
Implosion seems fair comment.
I don't know about you, but it really gets to me when MPs talk smugly about 'the Mother of Parliaments'. The place seems completely unfit for purpose. The two main parties are clearly wrong-footed by Brexit which is Remain v Leave, and these two categories seemingly defy a conventional Left v Right split. It cries out for smaller parties to be voted into the Commons on AV, which may include not only the BXP, but also more Greens etc on a more rational basis than first past the post, which effectively disenfranchises so many people. AV would encourage cooperation.
Add to that an elected upper chamber, 2 years terms for the MPs , voting over a weekend etc, and a directly elected PM, which splits the Executive from the Legislature, and you might start to find a way out. There is also the pressing issue of an English parliament sitting outside London, and a federal structure which adequately deals with relationships between the 4 constituent countries, at least until N Ireland votes to rejoin the South
Hate the Tories and always have for their scummy personal behaviour and capitalist over humanitarian policy
Summed up for me by this:
Hate Labour, who have been taken over by hard left college puddings who think they’re channeling Che Guevara and play so much identity politics they honestly can’t be all things to all men without being a huge failure.
And it is 'make-your-mind-up' time.
Labour would lose seats in Sunderland, Barnsley, Wolverhampton, Stoke and many other areas if Jeremy Corbyn shifted the party’s stance on
Brexit,
claimed Caroline Flint. The Brexiteer MP warned Labour and the Conservatives combined risk losing “40 plus seats” to the Brexit Party. BBC presenter Andrew Marr asked: “Are you not likely to lose more seats to the Lib Dems than anybody else if you don’t go in the other direction?” Ms Flint replied: “No not at all,
It is clear Labour will have to make a decision one way or the other, otherwise they will bleed at both ends. According to reports, Labour are losing 4 Remainers to every 1 Leave member Labour MPs like Flint and Nandy who urge Leave are, I think, trying to protect their own seats.
Flint's
Don Valley constituency is a problem if the Cons and BXP stop splitting their vote. And yet, if you look at the
Wiki history for Nandy's Wigan constituency, it is far from clear why she fears Farridge so much. The Con vote has not topped 30% of the vote for over 40 years And yet she appears regularly on TV saying her constituents voted Leave. (UKIP had 5.7% of the vote in 2010 and 19.5% in 2015; this dropped back to 5.7% in 2017). The combined Tory/UKIP vote here has never threatened to overwhelm her.
The legacy of BLiar was that he did little in the way of modernisation of society, so consumed was he with his Wars and PR PFI may have ben a quick fix for new hospitals, fire stations, schools etc but it was a Tory idea, which cost bitterly in the long run. on its own, the Labour Manifesto ideas are winners, and so is
Land for the Many
Lib Dems/Greens are very middle class heavy in membership which means the working class are again under represented, and because they’re staunch remain are unappealing to half the bloody country.
Although not a LibDem member (or voter, to date) I can see why their main message of Remain is appealing currently. They are also the only main English party campaigning for electoral reform At least you know what they stand for.
Farage is resonating with and mobilising the young, white working classes and I think there’s a real risk that populists will get some power. I’ve got a lot of family dotted all around the north of England and young men especially are pissed that there has been over a decade of huge immigration with no support to the local economies to hold up the population booms in small towns, and Farage is the only one seemingly giving them a voice. Loads of these places are flipping from Labour to Brexit, so he’s not only pillaging Tory membership.
Every legitimate grievance which you list can be placed fairly and squarely mainly at the feet of the Tories, not the EU.
It was the Tories who withdrew the financial support established by Labour, to provide for extra public facilities where there may have been immigration issues. But it was BLiar who failed to put any check in place on E European immigration He could have done so, since only Ireland, UK and Denmark were the 3 countries to allow uncontrolled immigration from the East of Europe
.
Having said that, it suited the Tories not to correct this. May, as Home Secretary/PM, never did make incoming residents register, so consequently there was no means of throwing out those who did not find work within 3 months Tory cost-cutting at work again. Not the fault of the EU. Registration officers would create jobs.
Osborne combined EU immigration with political dumping. e.g. my library in the South was extended in the period of austerity; libraries in the North were closed. The North lost hospitals: I would bet these were in Labour-controlled constituencies Nothing to do with the EU..
It is only recently that the Tories have made it an offence to have houses in multiple occupation which are not registered. Nothing to do with the EU
And last, it is the Tory mantra to deregulate and privatise, which is at the back of so many problems. e.g. failing
NHS; Grenfell Tower; the decision to privatise Building Inspectors, which leads to a race to the bottom; the decision to ease off fire regulations; the decision to cut police by 20,000 and PCSOs on top of that. All nothing to do with the EU
But English politicians are well versed at cocking up and blaming others like the EU, aided and abetted by the main stream media, owned mostly by wealthy RW financiers.
I am glad you have pointed out that English nationalists are not only the silver haired brigade. The nationalist poison was seeping into other age groups, even before the time of the Referendum. As a salutary reminder, this is a light-hearted look at the sort of shyte which guarantees Farridge wont do that well in parliamentary elections, when he has to expose his policies: