On Friday, I appeared as a panellist on GB News’s Dewbs & Co to discuss the results from Thursday’s local elections and their wider political implications (video below). My take on those results and the current political situation is as follows:
I am long time conservative voter, apart from a couple times when i went "off piste", but now find myself politically lost. I agree with what you say. Who ARE they all now? I just don't believe a word any of them say anymore? I am truly saddened by all this. This would be my 50th year where i could vote & i really don't think i can do it? Sorry for rambling, i am just so frustrated. Keep being our voice Paul, maybe we can get through eventually.
Michelle, it's not surprising that you don't know who they are anymore as both major parties have become complete parodies of themselves. The Conservatives are no longer interested in conserving anything and Labour don't even like, let alone represent, the workforce.
Both parties are captured. They are now controlled by pan-national pressure groups, huge multinational companies and the ultra rich, whose aim is to divide the population using identity politics and fear, so we take our eyes off what is really happening.
As a rational human being, your frustration is completely understandable.
Solid analysis Paul! Labour will win the general election, and win big, despite there not being much enthusiasm, which is the most damning indictment of this Conservative Party.
If normality had prevailed I’d agree with you, but Brexit (great) followed closely by Covid (lockdowns that Labour wanted sooner, harder, longer), followed by Ukrainian (oil hikes, food shortages etc) now Gaza. Yet wages rising faster than inflation, full employment..but too many pressures by 000s illegals (that Labour has no plan for).
Labour’s best hope of winning a clear majority vanished the moment Humza Yousaf resigned as Scottish First Minister/ leader of the SNP. If the SNP’s vote at the Westminster Election holds up, which it probably now will, Labour won’t have the numbers to win a sizeable majority because there isn’t the enthusiasm in England for Starmer that there was for Blair. Apart from in North London and on university campuses, of course.
Indeed, as the Conservatives still have a decent majority of around 50, the coming election has hung Parliament written all over it. Reform’s (or should they be called ‘Conform’?) support will melt once the shires start fretting about Labour in power, while the Gaza issue and apathy will eat into Labour’s core support.
Paul is right that the Tories have betrayed all those traditional working-class, pro-Brexit, former Labour voters who voted for them for the first time in 2019, but what did they expect when the party was headed by a fat, scruffy honey monster, with a known penchant for lying?
But even worse than that betrayal, they betrayed all the principles of a liberal democracy, even mankind itself, when they imposed covid lockdowns, made ‘vaccines’ that hadn’t even completed their clinical safety trials mandatory for certain professions, and then continued to lie through their back teeth to try and justify their evil actions.
Add in fighting proxy wars, using other nation’s sons and daughters as cannon fodder; the continual barrage of ‘progressive’ gobbledygook; and zero-carbon Harakiri madness, and this so-called 'Conservative Government' (both words in inverted commas) shouldn’t just be regarded as the worst government in living memory, it should also be remembered as the most despicable government in British history.
Paul, you've absolutely nailed it. The vocal minority in this country the MSM, the woke, the lazy and the smug with no experience of the real world cost of living crisis are ruining the lives of the silent hard working majority.
We need to return to the principles of hard work and discipline providing meaningful development as exemplified by the Michaela school in London.
Local communities have a role in standing up to the intimidation in our streets that goes against the fabric of our national roots, we all need to look at ourselves and claim our country back.
Thanks for continuing to talk real sense in a world gone mad.
Like a number of voters I’m a political orphan, detest the labour and Tories , Liberal party are even worst with insane and incompetent policies . The question is who to vote for leaves me Completely at odds with the whole political system. Reform has a number of agreeable policies However not one is serious on immigration and how to reduced the levels to normal levels of 100k per yrs . TBH I don’t believe that any of them are serious or care about this issue the way the public care . It’s frustrating and appalling that all this time and money has been spent on the immigrant policies with no result achieved that can be agreed on. I fear that it maybe too late to look for resolve , as things are now taking on dangerous aspect to areas where immigrants particularly Muslims are living . As we now see on Ireland the host of troubles they are experiencing I fear we are at the thin edge of the wedge and things will rapidly Ho out of control . I feel a small issue will spark what already is a time bomb .
Paul - I was surprised by your observation “elements of the Labour party and trade union movement remain actively hostile to traditional working-class values” at least in relation to the trade union movement. I had not spotted this (can you say more?).
It does seem that Labour is now entering a difficult phase with the Muslim issue, your Union issue and I suspect an Abbott/Corbyn issue before too long. Any others?
I'm afraid that much of the trade union movement - at least its leading spokespersons - are little more than a mouthpiece for the London liberal class. Not that there aren't still thousands of decent trade unionists, mind.
Doesn’t this mean that someone needs to lead a campaign to change how the Union movement operates? The layman/woman sees little aside from the fact that the movement is predominately focussed on the public sector and the fact that strikes within the NHS, rail and teaching attract opposition from the general public
I didn’t even know that O’Grady had retired 18 months ago and is replaced my Nowak who I have never seen.
Surely the TUC should be the obvious movement to represent hundreds of thousands of workers, with an infrastructure already in place and with a capability of addressing, for example, the ever widening chasm between the highest paid and lowest paid employees, at least in the private sector where it is most prevalent and where institutional investors do little?
With the pathetic stuff that is served up by governments, this is the obvious body to take the lead.
I am long time conservative voter, apart from a couple times when i went "off piste", but now find myself politically lost. I agree with what you say. Who ARE they all now? I just don't believe a word any of them say anymore? I am truly saddened by all this. This would be my 50th year where i could vote & i really don't think i can do it? Sorry for rambling, i am just so frustrated. Keep being our voice Paul, maybe we can get through eventually.
Michelle, it's not surprising that you don't know who they are anymore as both major parties have become complete parodies of themselves. The Conservatives are no longer interested in conserving anything and Labour don't even like, let alone represent, the workforce.
Both parties are captured. They are now controlled by pan-national pressure groups, huge multinational companies and the ultra rich, whose aim is to divide the population using identity politics and fear, so we take our eyes off what is really happening.
As a rational human being, your frustration is completely understandable.
The take on parliamentary candidates was mirrored by your Conservative opposite number with his comment about their candidates.
‘Not a fag paper between the two’ as me old Dad would say.
Good summary Paul. And Reform couldn't run a bath, certainly not the country, they can't even run their own party. So we're screwed.
Agree with all of that.
Solid analysis Paul! Labour will win the general election, and win big, despite there not being much enthusiasm, which is the most damning indictment of this Conservative Party.
If normality had prevailed I’d agree with you, but Brexit (great) followed closely by Covid (lockdowns that Labour wanted sooner, harder, longer), followed by Ukrainian (oil hikes, food shortages etc) now Gaza. Yet wages rising faster than inflation, full employment..but too many pressures by 000s illegals (that Labour has no plan for).
Labour’s best hope of winning a clear majority vanished the moment Humza Yousaf resigned as Scottish First Minister/ leader of the SNP. If the SNP’s vote at the Westminster Election holds up, which it probably now will, Labour won’t have the numbers to win a sizeable majority because there isn’t the enthusiasm in England for Starmer that there was for Blair. Apart from in North London and on university campuses, of course.
Indeed, as the Conservatives still have a decent majority of around 50, the coming election has hung Parliament written all over it. Reform’s (or should they be called ‘Conform’?) support will melt once the shires start fretting about Labour in power, while the Gaza issue and apathy will eat into Labour’s core support.
Paul is right that the Tories have betrayed all those traditional working-class, pro-Brexit, former Labour voters who voted for them for the first time in 2019, but what did they expect when the party was headed by a fat, scruffy honey monster, with a known penchant for lying?
But even worse than that betrayal, they betrayed all the principles of a liberal democracy, even mankind itself, when they imposed covid lockdowns, made ‘vaccines’ that hadn’t even completed their clinical safety trials mandatory for certain professions, and then continued to lie through their back teeth to try and justify their evil actions.
Add in fighting proxy wars, using other nation’s sons and daughters as cannon fodder; the continual barrage of ‘progressive’ gobbledygook; and zero-carbon Harakiri madness, and this so-called 'Conservative Government' (both words in inverted commas) shouldn’t just be regarded as the worst government in living memory, it should also be remembered as the most despicable government in British history.
Paul, you've absolutely nailed it. The vocal minority in this country the MSM, the woke, the lazy and the smug with no experience of the real world cost of living crisis are ruining the lives of the silent hard working majority.
We need to return to the principles of hard work and discipline providing meaningful development as exemplified by the Michaela school in London.
Local communities have a role in standing up to the intimidation in our streets that goes against the fabric of our national roots, we all need to look at ourselves and claim our country back.
Thanks for continuing to talk real sense in a world gone mad.
Like a number of voters I’m a political orphan, detest the labour and Tories , Liberal party are even worst with insane and incompetent policies . The question is who to vote for leaves me Completely at odds with the whole political system. Reform has a number of agreeable policies However not one is serious on immigration and how to reduced the levels to normal levels of 100k per yrs . TBH I don’t believe that any of them are serious or care about this issue the way the public care . It’s frustrating and appalling that all this time and money has been spent on the immigrant policies with no result achieved that can be agreed on. I fear that it maybe too late to look for resolve , as things are now taking on dangerous aspect to areas where immigrants particularly Muslims are living . As we now see on Ireland the host of troubles they are experiencing I fear we are at the thin edge of the wedge and things will rapidly Ho out of control . I feel a small issue will spark what already is a time bomb .
Paul - I was surprised by your observation “elements of the Labour party and trade union movement remain actively hostile to traditional working-class values” at least in relation to the trade union movement. I had not spotted this (can you say more?).
It does seem that Labour is now entering a difficult phase with the Muslim issue, your Union issue and I suspect an Abbott/Corbyn issue before too long. Any others?
I'm afraid that much of the trade union movement - at least its leading spokespersons - are little more than a mouthpiece for the London liberal class. Not that there aren't still thousands of decent trade unionists, mind.
Doesn’t this mean that someone needs to lead a campaign to change how the Union movement operates? The layman/woman sees little aside from the fact that the movement is predominately focussed on the public sector and the fact that strikes within the NHS, rail and teaching attract opposition from the general public
I didn’t even know that O’Grady had retired 18 months ago and is replaced my Nowak who I have never seen.
Surely the TUC should be the obvious movement to represent hundreds of thousands of workers, with an infrastructure already in place and with a capability of addressing, for example, the ever widening chasm between the highest paid and lowest paid employees, at least in the private sector where it is most prevalent and where institutional investors do little?
With the pathetic stuff that is served up by governments, this is the obvious body to take the lead.