This is a great article which really sums it up well. This government is a morally bankrupt, dishonest and incompetent mess and has been for the last 3 years. So it will be most enjoyable to seem the Tories (hopefully) get absolutely smashed and some truly awful human beings losing their seats (truss would be truly great).
But the world seems like it’s a mess right now. With hard right parties on the March, autocrats throwing their weight around and a bad economic situation, the hard work will start from day one. And I feel none of the problems facing the UK have quick fixes so I worry the new government will quickly become unpopular.
Still if you’d told me on election night in 2019 that the Tories would get badly beaten at the next election then I’d have taken it.
Thanks for a great piece Arthur. Your sentiments about this coming election mirror my feelings, and probably those of many more. This will be my first vote in a UK general election for 40 odd years (I’ve been abroad), but there’s no-one I feel like voting for, and more importantly, there seems to be no literature coming through the letterbox, so I’ve not even any idea who my candidates are!
Gosh - what lazy activists you must have in your area. Well I'm sure you can look at getvoting.org and similar sites for a sense of who you might support.
You're absolutely right about the totally different mood in 1997. I was in despair on election night and for a long time afterwards, but it's undeniable that there was a buzz of excitement about Tony Blair, not quite 44 when that seemed absurdly young (John Major had been the youngest premier since Rosebery at 47!). A lot of it was non-political factors but for those who weren't mourning the loss of a Conservative government, it felt like a cheerful, optimistic time.
I have a horrible feeling that for at least the first year of a new government will mostly inward looking, still not addressing the need to be in the customs union, and although there maybe a desire to be back on the world stage as a major player it will be very difficult to project that whilst not providing the wherewithal for the military to support that desire
This is a great article which really sums it up well. This government is a morally bankrupt, dishonest and incompetent mess and has been for the last 3 years. So it will be most enjoyable to seem the Tories (hopefully) get absolutely smashed and some truly awful human beings losing their seats (truss would be truly great).
But the world seems like it’s a mess right now. With hard right parties on the March, autocrats throwing their weight around and a bad economic situation, the hard work will start from day one. And I feel none of the problems facing the UK have quick fixes so I worry the new government will quickly become unpopular.
Still if you’d told me on election night in 2019 that the Tories would get badly beaten at the next election then I’d have taken it.
Thanks for a great piece Arthur. Your sentiments about this coming election mirror my feelings, and probably those of many more. This will be my first vote in a UK general election for 40 odd years (I’ve been abroad), but there’s no-one I feel like voting for, and more importantly, there seems to be no literature coming through the letterbox, so I’ve not even any idea who my candidates are!
Gosh - what lazy activists you must have in your area. Well I'm sure you can look at getvoting.org and similar sites for a sense of who you might support.
You're absolutely right about the totally different mood in 1997. I was in despair on election night and for a long time afterwards, but it's undeniable that there was a buzz of excitement about Tony Blair, not quite 44 when that seemed absurdly young (John Major had been the youngest premier since Rosebery at 47!). A lot of it was non-political factors but for those who weren't mourning the loss of a Conservative government, it felt like a cheerful, optimistic time.
I have a horrible feeling that for at least the first year of a new government will mostly inward looking, still not addressing the need to be in the customs union, and although there maybe a desire to be back on the world stage as a major player it will be very difficult to project that whilst not providing the wherewithal for the military to support that desire