My political leanings are no secret, but I can’t resist a bit of pontificating on the current state of things, and the Tories in particular.
Their fall has been so spectacular and there’s no sign of recovery. I think they’ve passed the critical point where they have no basis for coming back. Across the country, they are becoming an irrelevance. In my county, Shropshire, they lost 80% of their Council seats in the local elections and have lost all but one of the parliamentary seats, which they’ll lose next time. They no longer have any local structure. They’ve had it. But why?
A succession of awful leaders and policies. And now they have no policies. They are terrified of Reform (whilst bring apparently oblivious to the equal threat of the LibDems) but instead of challenging Reform as a party with no experience, no real policies, but who rely purely on dog-whistle slogans, they adopt the position of thinking this is what the electorate want so they’ll try to be more like Reform. Utter madness. Where are their positive ideas and challenges to Reform? They have none.
Labour are almost equally guilty of trying to out-Reform Reform to win back voters? Where has integrity and strong presentation of principled policy gone? The answer is, it doesn’t work any more with control of the media and social Media dictating the thoughts of the non-thinking mass, who now form a majority. Don’t confuse people with facts.
Of course, I think that in this now empty and thoughtless political landscape, Ed Davey and the LibDems stand alone in putting forward real policies and being prepared to call out the meaningless lies of Reform, rather than pandering to them in a feeble attempt to outdo them and win back voters.
But whether the LibDem message and drive to return to moderate politics with social responsibility will get through, I’ve no idea.
But Reform offer nothing, Conservatives are finished and Labour are lost, so I’m happy with where I am.
