Next UK Government will be ??

[Roger]

As I've mentioned before, I am NOT be confident to vote Labour next time, (big deal), even though I might want to. It feels that there are too many woke loonies and wacky Folks still hiding in their midst   

But Alistair Heath in this surprising DT piece, seems convinced that a Labout Govt. is inevitable, crikey just read this stuff :-

"The Tories have presided over out-of-control inflation, mass public sector waste, widespread strikes, declining real wages, an explosion in the national debt and far lower growth. They have made Britain a less conservative nation than it was in 2010, undermined the work ethic, penalised self-reliance and promoted dependence on the state. They have shifted the climate of opinion to the Left. They have undermined capitalism, trashed competitiveness, introduced myriad regulations, waged war on enterprise, fuelled envy and jealousy, squeezed the City and normalised anti-free market prejudice. They are nationalising businesses and picking winners.

They have continued to undercut the family and presided over declines in fertility to levels far lower than women would like. The drive to reform welfare has stalled, with 5.3 million stuck on out of work benefits. State education has improved, especially reading skills, but is back on a path of union-driven decline, and they have institutionalised a scandalous discrimination against private schools. The railways, roads and airports are a disaster, and they have launched a war on cars.

Energy policy is a calamity: they have embraced net zero with no plan, have taxed North Sea oil and gas to death, refuse to build enough nuclear, and risk horrific blackouts. If you are a suburban, aspirational, hard-working family, desperate to own your own home, to save money, to educate your children, to have two cars and to travel abroad, you are being hammered in every possible way and made to feel bad for your ambition and effort. What was the point of voting Tory?

The police’s flirtation with a zero tolerance approach is over. The Tories have done far too little to recapture cultural and educational institutions now totally dominated by woke revolutionaries. They have even passed laws that make this worse. They have empowered the Bank of England and other financial bodies to pursue anti-Tory policies. School children are taught an atavistic, terrifying version of environmentalism as a secular religion, rather than balanced analysis.

The Government has failed to take on woke capital, and is content to see museums “decolonised”. The Tories have had some successes fighting extreme trans activists, but have failed to tackle critical race theory. They have allowed a malign ideology to take hold that depicts Britain as a uniquely evil nation: what hope is there for conservatism if this deranged viewpoint becomes hegemonic among the next generation? Set against that, a handful of mini-victories – new laws to crack down on motorway protesters, say – matter little."

There's more in this vein   

The DT has many good reads and are good on sport IMO. For anyone who has not got access atm - I HAVE A FREE SUBSCRIPTION AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY ARE GIVING A 'BOGOF'. IF ANYONE WANTS IT, SEND ME A PM AND I'LL SET IT UP.

It seems a shame that it should go to waste. ATB

[caller]

From wiki:

In September 2022, Heath welcomed the mini-budget submitted by the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, with unbridled enthusiasm. In a front page commentary in The Daily Telegraph, Heath wrote:

This was the best Budget I have ever heard a British Chancellor deliver, by a massive margin. The tax cuts were so huge and bold, the language so extraordinary, that at times, listening to Kwasi Kwarteng, I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming, that I hadn’t been transported to a distant land that actually believed in the economics of Milton Friedman and F A Hayek.[15]

The budget triggered a financial crisis in the UK. The chancellor was fired three weeks later and his tax cuts were withdrawn, followed six days later by the resignation of Prime Minister Liz Truss.

Enough said?

[Roger]

Yes Caller 'enough said'. But many Tories still believe fervently in the 'tax cut' approach that Kwarteng brought forward. Myself I'm more a 'balance the books' thinker.

Heath's piece is a jaundiced look at things but there's some truth among the failings he lists.

My feeling is that Sunak is doing OK atm BUT the crucial issue of immigration will bring him down if he makes no progress.

[Coolkorat]

This article reflects the intended position the tories will take for the next election: 30p Lee Anderson articulated it (not that 30p is articulate): with no Corbyn, Brexit and Boris they have no choice but culture wars, and it's already started. Braverman's comment about Starmer being the 'first female leader of the Labour party' is a first salvo.

Labour know this and have already started to counter it, which won't be difficult. The tories run the real risk of cementing their 'nasty party' reputation.

[caller]

The tories run the real risk of cementing their 'nasty party' reputation.

I suspect that 'nasty party' tag, is based on stuff that much of the Country approves of, like getting tougher on immigration.

I suspect most of the Country is hacked off with everyone's rights to be or have this, that and the other, whilst ordinary people's views don't count.

Chav's wasn't coined by Tories, it was coined by the chattering classes of Notting Hill and Islington, those smug, sneering, wealthy so-called socialists, who despise the working class, once 'the salt of the earth'. The same people that voted for Corbyn and the madness of Sadiq Khan.

There is a reason that the working class got hacked off with Labour, because they became the bottom feeding forgotten. And that sneering still exists, and they are still forgotten.

I think the Tories have simply imploded and have run out of ideas, which is a great shame for Sunak, who seems a Country mile ahead of the rest of the mediocrity in Parliament. In the same way as happened to Labour before Thatcher, followed by Brixton boy in 97, who Blair put to the sword, until the debacle of Brown's presidency, and it's now Labours turn again. 

The working class will still be bottom of the pile.