Thinking back to the last general election in Britain. This is what I wrote on December 13th 2019. To me it was an extremely depressing moment in history as the charlatan Boris Johnson got the keys to Downing Street and became our prime minister with a strong majority...
Tonight I am feeling as low as I felt that night in 1979 when Thatcher grabbed the keys to 10 Downing Street. This time the British electorate have apparently given their support to Johnson and his baying Tory mob. I am looking at television and the writing is already on the wall. The Conservative Party is about to enjoy a solid majority in The Houses of Parliament. They will be gloating and guffawing as only Tories can gloat and guffaw.
How on earth could British voters have allowed themselves to be fooled like this? I shake my head in despair. Five years of Johnson ahead and no chance whatsoever of returning to the European fold. That ship has already left the wharf.
I spent Thursday working at one of our local polling stations, arriving there at 6.15 in the morning and departing at 10.30pm. I had been hoping that the day would bring a hung parliament with a chance of achieving a second European Union referendum. But that dream is over.
The Tories are in and as I say I feel terribly low tonight. There are food banks in our country. There are rough sleepers on our streets. There is continuing division. The NHS is in crisis. We are breaking away from The European Union. Thousands of children are living in poverty. And yet, and yet...British voters fell for Johnson's lies, false promises and buffoonery.
He kept saying over and over again "Get Brexit Done!" and an army of fools listened. Hope is lost now. We are entering an unhappier world with kindness in retreat. BoJo The Clown is pulling the strings now. Save our Souls.
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How things can change! Johnson soon revealed his true self. Idle. Self-serving. A showman. A shirker without substance. Entitled. Finally the voters who were hoodwinked by him started to see him for what he was. Leading Labour at the time was Jeremy Corbyn. A principled, hard-working parliamentarian but he was also a dreamer who failed to see that his socialist visions were out of synch with the realities of modern times. Also in the picture is Huw Edwards the BBC's main news anchor. He has since left the BBC under a cloud because of sexual misconduct allegations that he has not denied.
Tomorrow night, as Labour sweep into power and The Tories are unceremoniously cast aside, my feelings will be so different from that miserable night in December 2019.
In contrast to you, I feel no elation in Starmer's probable success, he will bury the country in woke, suffocating statism when we need to throw off the yoke of an overblown and largely useless bureaucracy. I hold no brief for Sunak's mob either, they would have been equally useless, as their past few years record has shown.
ReplyDeleteLabour is the best we have got. The best way forward. I prefer to find optimism in their success.
DeleteWhat I hope is that you throw the Conservative bums out and the new guys will do something positive.
ReplyDeleteThey need to do it for the people - not themselves nor the moneyed classes.
DeleteI was brought up to never "subscribe" to any one party but vote for who had to offer the fairest "deal" for the most - even if it meant tactical voting. But then proportional representation [in the motherland) is very different from the British way of electing a government.
ReplyDeleteThat I am not allowed to vote in the General Elections despite the fact that I have lived virtually all my adult life in England I try not to dwell on. Some people will try to comfort me by saying "what difference does one vote make?" Oh dear. Cue voter apathy. As the Tesco slogan goes: Every little helps. Or as every farmer knows: Eventually, even chicken droppings will amount to a sizeable heap of manure.
YP, may you wake Friday morning to the result you are hoping for. Alas, if Labour gets a majority the problems they'll inherit will, roughly, amount to the effort of turning round a large ship. It'll take time and patience.
Before I forget, since you mention Corbyn: He was indeed a dreamer, and a hell of a chance the country's electorate missed. But then who wants vision when they can have a clown instead.
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Well it is only numbers now. Four labour votes in this household but the grandsons are not politically minded as the females. Could it be that having got the vote, we make sure we use it.
ReplyDeleteGive the grandsons a kick up the arse Thelma. It is 20.10 on Thursday now. Still not too late to cast a vote.
DeleteI think we will be celebrating tonight and tomorrow YP.
ReplyDeleteWe shall overcome!
DeleteI saw a bit about the vote on the TV news but wasn't paying attention.
ReplyDeleteWake up girl! Mind you - you are far away. It won't mean much to you.
DeleteVote, and drag a couple of friends along to vote.
ReplyDeleteTick.Done.
DeleteI wish I could forget The Felon as easily as I've forgotten Boris.
ReplyDeleteThey had much in common.
DeleteMay things go well in this election for you.
ReplyDeleteLess for me. More for the poor and needy.
DeleteIs that your house?
ReplyDeleteNo. My Labour posters are in our upstairs windows - street facing of course.
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