| Topic: | Re:Starmergeddon | |
| Posted by: | Richard Greenhough | |
| Date/Time: | 03/07/24 12:04:00 |
| If you think the past fourteen years have been bad, then give untrammelled power to Labour and you will find out how much worse it can be. Don't forget that all Labour MPs defending seats - including Ruth Cadbury and Andy Slaughter - were campaigning for Jeremy Corbyn to be Prime Minister only four-and-a-half years ago, as of course was Keir Starmer. What a disaster it would have been if they had succeeded. Starmer may claim he has changed the Labour Party, but he will still have large numbers of MPs from the far left wing with him, decrying British interests and putting up taxes wherever they can. He has kept very quiet on how he will handle relations between the UK and the EU, and while even he probably realises that re-joining as a full member is impracticable and would split his party, that will not stop him being willing to bargain away matters that should properly be under national, rather than supra-national, control. And with France and Germany both swinging to the right, just how close a relationship would be beneficial to the UK remains to be seen. There is only one way to stop Labour and that is to vote Conservative. It may involve a certain gritting of teeth to do so, but wasting a vote on the right-wing loonies of Reform or the left-wing loonies of the Greens or the Workers parties would be just that - a wasted vote. And quite what the LibDems now stand for is open to debate. Under Sunak the Conservatives have reverted to reasonable moderate economic and social policies and while there is certainly room for improvement, throwing the baby out with the bathwater is not the way to do it. If Labour is the answer, it must be a damned silly question. |