This “everything is worse” feeling is not something that has any link to any political party.
If life is percieved to get worse under any party’s reign, whether to Tories as is the case now, Labour if they were elected, or SNP or whatever, they will blame whoever is in charge at the moment.
It’s happening now, it’s happening with the Democrats in the US, with Liberals in Canada, and to a lesser extent, the ruling coalition in Germany with AfD getting a surge thanks to people just generally discontent with life.
How much of that is their fault is something up for debate. It’s not 100% their fault, and it also isn’t 100% not their fault either. The same reactionary thoughts that are coming now from this here are giving the Conservative party in Canada a resurgence. I have a feeling most of you don’t like that, but it’s the truth.
When people are thinking life is getting worse, they will vote in whoever is not part of the current leadership.
Clearly you are not from the UK, or you would not be saying this. Every single service in the UK has deteriorated badly under this government. I don’t mean feels badly, it is statistically much worse. The UK has been subjected to a heist where they have stolen billions from us. Google Michelle Mone, Sunak’s family gain when he “gave” new oil licenses, the peerage being sold, the Russian influence, and the list goes on and on.
Lots of people really, really want transformative change, whether it’s because of climate-ecological breakdown, rabid inequality, or just because they’ve been economically hard-pressed for years, and see no way out, even for their children.
They are moving to political extremes. Sometimes this means to the left - in much of Europe 10 years ago radical parties like Syriza and Podemos swept away the old centre-left - the Communist Party were in the radical left coalition government in Portugal (very successful, by the way); Sanders almost won the US Democrat nomination (and probably would have beaten Trump). But some also moved to the radical right - a slower burn, but perhaps now gathering more force.
It’s true that this longing for real change often means rejecting, reacting against incumbents - but it goes deeper. A mere change of ruling party won’t crack it - indeed, my own belief is that if say a ‘moderate’ Labour Party gets elected in the UK and doesn’t radically change anything much, the reaction will be subsequent election of an even more extreme and empowered right than the Tories are now. Maybe that’s what Biden has done in the US (though he has been much more radical than UK Labour promises - and has kept radicals like Sanders and AOC on board, which Starmer hasn’t).
Yes and no. This lot have been in power long enough that cans that were kicked down the road are being caught up with / balls kicked into the long grass are being found / chickens are home to roost.
You can see it with crises as diverse as public sector pay and RAAC in schools.
All utterly predictable, but British voters couldn’t collectively bring themselves to vote for Corbyn, so …
Shame Corbyn wouldn’t step down so someone that wasn’t disliked by so many voters could step in
Why would he step down when he had a pretty significant mandate from Labour party members to be their leader?
I think Corbyn was a bad person to lead the Labour party (I agree with his policies but he just wasn’t leadership material), but IMO we should be absolutely hammering the electorate for not holding their noses up and voting the guy that wasn’t Boris effing Johnson.
I agree with you that he was a bad leader. That is a failure on Labour’s part as a whole, and on Corbyn’s by not taking the initiative to say “You know what, it’s clear this party is not going to make headway with the current leadership. Let’s find a new leader that is liked by the people and get Labour in for the people.”
Unfortunately the cycle continues where Tory’s are fucking things up as we speak so that when Labour likely get in they will spend years putting the pieces back together. Doesn’t matter who wins, the public lose.
Fuck the Torys.
I mean fucking obviously it’s gotten worse “under the Tories” but what a loaded and useless question.
How about, "Are you confident things would have been any different under anybody else?
Point is its irrelevant… Every country right left or sideways could say things got worse under their governance
And every general election I have said this. But the british public on the whole are idiots
I disagree there. People can only work from the information they are presented with. The problem is with the establishment and how they protect their own.
That was true in the stone age. Today everyone has access to all the information and they can make up their minds. If they don’t - it’s on them.
You have to be pretty naïve to think everyone takes the time to get good information. Murdoch has built an empire on the exact opposite of this premise. He seems to be doing ok out of it.
It’s the same in Portugal. Everything has become shit(tier) after 8 years of centre-left PS, but vote intentions are still leaning towards them.
Democracy is a beautiful thing: people get exactly what they deserve.
Same everywhere, including Ontario where I’m from. People complained nonstop about what our Premiere did to the province and then there was the lowest turnout in election history and he got elected to another majority. Something like 50% of people didn’t show up and we had mail in ballots, couldn’t be easier. Embarrassing.
