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Waving goodbye to Mel Stride - and the rest of them….
Not a single post in the forum today - I expect many of us are nursing hangovers, or are at least somewhat sleep deprived.
Anyway, though this one will probably be removed, here’s my two-penn’orth….
Putting aside the joy of the Tories losing (I make no apologies for celebrating seeing the back of a government whose ideology has resulted in the increasing impoverishment and demonising of the most vulnerable in this society - I do this job because I think everyone deserves to live decently and I’m not going to pretend otherwise) we’re in for difficult times.
Labour have won with less of a share of the vote (and less votes in total) than the supposedly ‘disastrous’ 2019 performance. The Lib Dems get 71 seats, but with 3.5 million votes, whilst independents, with just over half a million votes, get 6. That half a million is significantly less than the 4 million that Reform took - but with only Reform having only 4 seats to show for it. And that 4 million is more than the Lib Dem vote and approaching half of the total votes that got Labour its “landslide”.
No wonder - and as I predicted - Reform are already banging the PR drum. We now have a ‘solid’ Labour government which, on any honest assessment, is already an unpopular government. Moreover, it’s an unpopular government which will not even begin to address the kind of issues which mean that the majority of the population either saw no point in voting or voted for the populist right.
Reeves is already telling us there’s ‘no money’ - plus ca change, eh?
Mate, hate to break it to you but Mel Stride remains with us…..