Migrating birds reported to be 3 weeks late in arriving. It is still chilly and some frost around in early morning. But NO MOW MAY is here. It rained today which was unusual, and looks like being mainly dry for the rest of the month although occasional showers – brilliant typical British weather forecast! Warmer than average seems to be colder than the average I remember!
LABOUR
I could never ever ever vote tory. However Labour under Starmer has lost socialism. Rayner would be a far better leader – more left, but still acceptable to the public. Starmer comes across as status quo, part of the Westminster Political cabal. We will see in Thursday whether he has enough popularity to crush the tories – which should be simple. The Observer made the comment that the last time these elections were fought was a massive victory for Corbyn and Labour may struggle. They may well struggle as they still have no clear ideology that appeals to the public. I suspect we will see some very low turnouts as the public show their disgust at politics – I know it is mainly Tory lying, but the press has been trying to tar them all. with the same brush, and thus even out the distrust.
I have no idea of Labours policies on energy, railways, NHS, education, migrants, and just some vague comments about tax changes that do not matter as they are not in power. A strong message is essential – which encompasses the climate crisis, trade with EU crisis, NHS crisis, education crisis, farming crisis, etc.. I have not mentioned Ukraine as apart from pretending that we have an important role to play (albeit led by USA and NATO) – it seems that our policy is electioneering.