Chat with Andy this morning. We agreed 100% that the Labour government has been disappointing to say the least! Winter fuel payments and the farmers inheritance tax could both have been avoided with a little nous! They had at least 2 years in which to prepare for government – but have done nothing! Water company debacle was known about and yet the government is unprepared. They have also allowed themselves to be diverted into discussions about grooming!
Setting the agenda with the RWPress should not be difficult. People want, nay demand some radical policies to give optimism for the future. If Labour do not provide, then from a different angle Reform will! The Tories seem doomed with Badenoch – she appears witless whilst Jenrick is worse! Whilst I debate whether the only good Tory is a dead Tory, I do wonder what has happened to the sensible Conservative Party, the one which purported to propose that a bigger cake equalled more money for the poor?
All we have now is the pursuit of money. The RWP are unashamedly fixated on the USA and the orange man child. here again Lefties like me need to be careful – Trump cannot be wrong on everything, so we need to be discerning and selective.
On Europe the papers are trying to make the govt. tread carefully – but opinion polls show that the populist view is closer alignment (if they will have us). And Europe, at least western Europe needs us! The former Soviet dominated states are veering to the right – is our terminology wrong here? Was the USSR wrongly identified as being left wing when the reality was that it was a totalitarian dictatorship of the right. Marxist ideology was only applied when it suited the regimes.