We have had a number of breaks in the leadership of the conservative party because of acknowledged failures of leadership. Since the last election in 2019 the prospects of the United Kingdom have tumbled. With each new leader, there is the pretence that a new and fresh government is in place which is making a new start for the country. How can a continuation of the same government, the same personalities, be called a fresh start. It cannot be classified as a new beginning, particularly when it starts out by suggesting that it is a rectification of previous mistakes. If that is the case it is clearly not a fresh start or new beginning but a smoothing over of incompetence at the heart of the organisation.
To suggest that the conservative party as a whole has a mandate from 2019, is to ignore the changing mood of the country. One only has to look at the polls, which in the worst case, indicate that the mandate has been withdrawn in emphatic fashion. The last two bi-elections before Mr Johnson’s departure, was a positive indication that the so called mandate claimed by Mr Johnson, was well and truly withdrawn. Since the debacle of the Truss administration, the mandate has effectively crumbled to dust. The party has had 12 years to get it together. We’ve had various mandates for the party over that period and none of them is any more valid than the previous ones. It is over. To claim otherwise is a misrepresentation of the facts. It is therefore a con and a lie to try to convince themselves and the public that their time in office is acceptable to the British public. It is not.
To suggest that Mr Sunak is Mr Fixit is a distortion of the truth. He was instrumental in supporting the continuous decline from the moment Boris Johnson got Brexit done. Brexit has done for the country and the stubborn, pig headed, delusionary thinking that somehow the United Kingdom can make isolationism and nationalism function effectively in the modern world, is the continuing fantasy of the current leaders of the conservative party.
Ms Truss’s final words are a classic perversion of reality. They are a clinically serious denial of what she has wrought in the last 54 days of her leadership. Is it any wonder there was only a sad, slow and subdued clapping as she stepped away from the podium. It wasn’t much better with Mr Sunak’s address on arrival. A lot of snapping of cameras can be heard, and a few grumblings. If his words were in anyway of note, it would have been a sound of loud clapping and bravos as he entered No 10. Nothing of the kind occurred. He was less than impressive and on his way to continue the slow disintegration of the welfare of the country.
I was wrong previously, to suggest that the problem of endemic racism would prevent him from ever becoming prime minister. He has done so, although not through a general election. He dares not risk calling one to sustain his accession to the post because he is sufficiently astute to realise that the conservative party would lose a colossal number of parliamentary seats. He is under the impression that he will be able to reverse public opinion sufficiently to enable the conservative party to win the next general election and claim a new mandate. That election will have to happen no later than January 2025. Unless circumstance force such an election to occur, or Mr Sunak feels he’s done enough to safeguard his seat, the next general election will not happen until the last possible moment. That is the way of things in democratic Britain. The will of the people is ignored. The clamour for an election is insufficiently loud to force the current leader to listen and allow the public to have their say in how they wish the country to be administered. The rule of the few is their creed.
So we continue to be in limbo. What effect the next budget will have on the situation is awaited with tremulous anticipation. Will the NHS receive the attention it deserves? Will salaries and benefits for NHS staff be sufficient to stop the exodus of workers and attract others to apply? Will educational establishments likewise receive the assistance required to improve conditions for pupils, teachers and ancillary staff? Will the alleged triple lock for pensions be maintained, or will there be any increase at all? Will pensioners now be required to pay a national insurance contribution? Will the basic rate of tax be increased? Will the requirements of those on benefit be sustained and improved to alleviate the effects of poverty? These are a number of serious issues that will need clarification in order to deal with the anticipated eye watering decisions being made by the current chancellor Mr Hunt, should he actually remain in the post.
Growth is still needed to increase the state coffers. The current isolationism imposed by the United Kingdom has to be tackled in order to attract investment in the UK as well as allowing for a smoother and freer flow of trade with other nations. Putting up barriers of any kind is an inane policy associated with supposed taking back control. International trade depends on international thinking and cooperation. To be a part of a market, you have to be in the market. Operating from the outside has much less footfall. One only has to look at a Sunday market in a high street or church grounds or square. Stalls are set up under the organisation of a group of stall holders. To set up a stall one gets a licence and pays a fee. Not a lot, just enough to cover administrating expenses. Across the street or around the corner, an independent puts up a stall. Occasionally people attracted to the market will spot it and go over to have a look, but the attraction is much less than that of the larger market. There is less of a footfall. In is not too difficult to visualise. One sees it all round the country. Why is that so hard to understand?
I suppose the independent stall holder can make a big hullabaloo, play loud music and make loud noises to attract attention, but more often than not that sort of display puts people off. Besides, the market place is usually larger and more colourful than the side show. So again, what is so hard to understand.
The United Kingdom pretends to display itself as something so totally unique that it will attract sufficient attention to override its being a sideshow. Well, the display is not working. Every country has unique qualities.
As I sit watching the BBC News
Channel, a reporter stands in front of No 10 Downing Street, waiting and
watching who is walking towards the door to be given a job in cabinet. The sad
thing is that the same faces are cropping up. Dominic Rabb, James Cleverly, Jeremy
Hunt, and Oliver Dowden. There was also mention of bringing back Suella
Braverman to the Home Office. How is any of this a new Government? The same
people will be around the table doing the same sort of things. There is no
fresh thinking at all. Here are 357 members of the conservative party in
Parliament. Are there no other people with any degree of capability or integrity?
Clearly not. This is more than ever an indication that a general election is a
matter of necessity. Journalists keep going on about an election disrupting
stability, and stability is what the market expects. Repetition of stupidity is not stability, it is just stupid. It is the kind of stupidity that keeps the same hopeless crew in the cabinet. An election is the very
thing that is needed to bring about stability. To elect a government that the
people choose for themselves. If they once again elect a conservative majority, then so be
it. The country will get the government it deserves. Given the current state of the constituencies around
the country, and a first past the post system, they may well succeed. If there is a change, then at least we will
have new faces in cabinet, and perhaps a fresh approach.
What we have is yet another ‘no change’ administration. Yet another empty worded speech by a Mr Fixit with no real intention of fixing anything. This is an accountant, once again trying to balance books as opposed to trying to be a prime minister in order to improve the lives of the citizens of the country. A prime minister trying to dig her/himself out of a hole by digging deeper is going in the wrong direction. A prime minister just covering the hole with a flimsy blanket is more than likely to step on the blanket and fall right back in. Either way s/he is deluding her/himself.
As to the current Prime Minister Mr Sunak, may the Bhagavati Tridevi assist him in finding a way to calling for a general election for the good of the country.
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