next General Election

So lets start a post what will the Tories say at the next General Election and lets see who's right

We put 20,000 police on the streets even though they were cut by 22,000

we rolled out the first covid vaccine even though half was done in other countries

we've lowered taxes even though they raised them to the highest ever

it wasn't our fault it was Labours , the EU, the USA, the banks in fact anyone than them

we've started to get the Brexit dividend even though Rushi admitted its not as good as the EU trade deal

we can make our own laws even though we always could

we'll stop the boats, send illegal immigrants back even though austerity they took away staff to process immigrants and have failed to set up safe routes other than from Ukraine and Hong Kong

let's forget about austerity, Brexit, Covid money wasted, contracts given out to companies that never excited, write off the debt from furlough

let's put down socialism unless its conservative socialism

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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

The bit I don't quite understand is why Labour and Lib Dems are so silent.
Not quiet, silent !

Here you have THE worst Conservative period in office since the (last) Great Depression. Every fiscal policy in dust; every pro-business policy shredded; the love/hate thing with Europe finally resolved (even if Boris and the boys lied their arses off to the public before getting a mandate to withdraw)
You'd think this would be a great opportunity to come up with ideas and ideals and give the nation's an "Onwards and upwards; (can't believe I'm cribbing from Trump here but) make Britain great again ! boost even if it's only rhetoric, at least something voters could SEE.
But here we are weeks from the next election and there's nothing

jackieash · 26-30

@Picklebobble2 Do you [b]know [/b]there is an election within weeks? What are the signs to look for?

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@jackieash An election has to be held on or before January 2025 but I doubt the country can wait that long with Sunak introducing policy measures that are trashing whatevers left of the economic infrastructure of the UK

ArtieKat · M

@Picklebobble2 [quote]but I doubt the country can wait that long [/quote] That sounds more like wishful thinking than anything empirical

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@ArtieKat Name ANYTHING empirical in this day and age ?

ArtieKat · M

@Picklebobble2 I'll take that as proof positive of my suspicions

gol979 · 41-45, M

@Picklebobble2 they arent silent, they are pretty much the same

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@gol979 Labours Achilles's heel is always the economy.
They'll be swept into power probably with a huge majority after the Conservative party has basically trashed the economy in this generation just as they trashed the unions in the last and any industry we had in the one before that.
So from my perspective you have to try and rebuild public confidence starting day 1.
What we still don't know is how they intend to do that.

gol979 · 41-45, M

@Picklebobble2 doesnt matter. Theres meta agendas at play here and whatever colour gets voted in will impose those agendas. Centralisation is reaching its zenith and different modes of thought are becoming unacceptable. We are entering the paradigm of a one party state that will rule by (manufactured) emergency decree.

Obviously it doesnt have to be this way but the majority will still play at voting

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@gol979 if that happens we'll start to see minority governments that won't last long.
I think too much is made of 'media power'.
We've seen how untrustworthy it is this is why fewer people than ever read newspapers today, and 24hour rolling television news on days when nothing happens is so full of unnecessary bias it's laughable.

milkymum1 · 31-35, F

@Picklebobble2 I partly understand what your saying about why aren't the opposition parties making more from it all but also a General Election is due so why should they give the tories any ideas to run off with

milkymum1 · 31-35, F

@Picklebobble2 that is true but after the last couple of years of the tories destroying the economy it can't get any worse

Until the Achilles heal of brexit is acknowledged and admitted that part of the problems we have now is down to it the faster we can sort things out and rebuild