Friday, December 20, 2019

We Must Now Recognise What Has Happened To British Politics.

There has been a cosmic shift in British politics as we have effectively reverted to a two party system.
The only question to concern us is whether the Lib Dems can rise again but the portents are not good for them. They have let the great British public down big-style TWICE - first in coalition in 2010 and secondly in the General Election when, they not only spat in the face of democracy, but revelled in it. 
Their grasp of the overall political climate was every bit as poor as that of Corbyn.
The Reform Party (Brexit Party as was) simply has nowhere to go. A mediocre Brexit will be negotiated into a reasonably tolerable one because of the sheer size of the Tory majority. That then becomes a dead letter for future elections. Moreover, the irony of success in EU elections having been lost will ensure that all impetus is lost forever. Electoral reform will not bring a new party 350 seats - not even in increments!
It is surely going to be the Tories who will reap the phenomenal economic benefits of Brexit over the coming years. They will be able to safely increase public spending in critical areas without the need for borrowing beyond our means or the foul old Labour tactic of printing money which created massive inflation.
My desire has always been to have a right of centre party to replace the Tories. That will now not happen.
Tories in government have always been staid and thoroughly undependable during most of my lifetime. In the past, people have accepted that. It was only during the Thatcher years that things were different - she  pushed the left backwards - for a season.
Can Labour truly reinvent itself in a mere five years? It may be feasible but I doubt it. If I were to want to advise them - it would be to bring back Blair as the fastest route to rebuilding.
If Boris plays his cards moderately well, he is virtually guaranteed to win the 2024 election by a significant margin.
Brexit will no longer be the only game in town. There are two other critical factors to consider:
1) The Reform Party's vote, in its new garb, will see its support plummet and this will aid the Tories by at least a dozen seats.
2) The long overdue reform of constituency boundaries has cost the Tories an average of 30 seats to Labour over a considerable period. In the recent election - this would have been a lower than typical, 24 seats.
Broker these changes into the equation and the Tory majority in the last election could easily have have exceeded 120 seats.

The Tories are going to be unable to control social media but they can make inroads into the propagandising of the population by the BBC and they must tackle the incredible leftist bias in education.

When it came down to it, many readers will be surprised to learn that I did not vote in the last election - and may well not do so in the next - assuming I still possess a heartbeat.
Politics has changed. Ukip became an irrelevance; the Brexit Party is going down the same path; the Greens are not to British tastes; the Lib Dems are a joke. (If I were Boris, I would try to persuade Nigel to move over to the Tories. Highly improbable - but certainly worth a punt.)

All of this can only mean that we have a two party system once again. The only object of voting for all sensible people should be to ensure that Labour never takes power again in the foreseeable future. Until all vestiges of the hard left and the dripping liberals have been replaced by people of common sense, they deserve no power.

Blair removed Militant Tendency - they need him back to wheedle Momentum out from within their midst.

There is a single caveat to all that I have written here. The absurd climate change zealots may yet overturn everything written above. Be warned!

One Christian's View of War.

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