DrWatson
For CoolCoco and the many others babbling on here about those results (and here I must specify my total cynicism re politicos of all parties, seen many decades of evidence re incompetence and corruption) - sure, Tories are keen to keep on shooting themselves in both feet.
Folk on here should be old enough to know that Labour gets a turn now and again, does much change? MacMillan and Sir Alec Douglas Not-a-Public-Speaker turned voters to Wilson and later Callaghan, (with a disastrous dash of Ted Teef in the middle) and by 1979 a couple of million union members were so hacked off they brought in the wretched Thatcher!
She eventually got knifed by her own party, and a few years later Major - having given us her disastrous plan for train privatisation - duly got booted out (similar scenario to now) and we got the lovely, smiley Tony Bliar, all things to all men (his chief backer Mandelson - now Lord - got suspended so often by his own party for corruption we all lost count).
Thatcher's successor Major, along with henchman Heseltine, tried to bankrupt the country (look up ERM fiasco, or 'Black Wednesday') and they're now a Sir and Lord respectively!
That got us to Bliar, didn't he look great when he swept in (as Starmer may well do)? That got us to a couple of pointless wars, (still feeling the terrorism effects now) and his successor 'prudent' Gordon Brown trying to sell off our Gold reserves at bargain prices, as Labour's policies took the economy down the toilet (I recall the Grauniad groaning with the weight of all the local authority job ads, for left-handed Albanian lesbian social services help and the like!).
Labour could have got in before, but for their membership trying to present the unelectable Comrade Corbyn as a possible leader - and he could lead, perhaps a c'tee checking Hackney bus times with one-time Shadow Home Sec Diane Abbott would be about right?).
Starmer is no great shakes (a disaster at the CPS - ask Lawyers and Police from that period) and he was trying to sell, what was it, 6 possible Brexit policies in the 2019 election?!! But then next to Truss, and BoJo, a cat's hairball doesn't look so bad? There is a saying that we get the politicos we deserve, and on that basis, we must all have been very naughty. I suggested in about the 80s or 90s we should sub-contract our Govt out to somewhere sensible like Holland or Denmark, they could do a good job on about 2 days a week, cheaper and we'd have a much better country.
Overly cynical? Or just a realist?!
Very likely a true summing up of politics down the years😂
A lot of it before my time.
Will you get on the phone to the Netherlands or Denmark or shall I? I think I prefer the Netherlands.
You should apply for a job as a Political analyst😃
