02/07/2024
Politics getting on your nerves?
Can't decide who to vote for and wondering if there is any point?
Read on to find out why your vote is more important than ever before...
The general election is looming, a chance for a new government and a fresh start. But many are so disillusioned with the state of British politics, every option feels like a vote for more of the same corruption and buffoonery. So you could be forgiven for taking the apathetic approach and staying at home on the 4th of July - it's a bit like trying to decide which is the best turd in the septic tank after all.
Let’s face it, even the most devout Conservative voter would need to have been asleep for the last 14 years not to feel let down. But, unlike Sleeping Beauty, no prince is going to ride in on a white horse and wake the British Public up.
We are going to have to do that for ourselves.
It all started with privatisation of essential services. Creating opportunities for capitalism to thrive and make the rich richer was more important than people's lives back then, and look how that turned out for us? Of course, it’s not really a problem if you are wealthy enough to take private jets everywhere, can afford your electric bill without having to chose between that and food, can have your mail couriered and drink only bottled water. In more recent years, to add insult to injury, the Tories have barely bothered to conceal the fact that they couldn't give a damn about us.
Take Brexit as an example. The question which should never have been asked. The EU referendum, much like privatisation of water and rail, as evidenced by polluted seas and trains no one can afford to use, should quite simply not have happened. With no sound or trustworthy economic context for the average British person to base their decision, and whopping lies about saving the NHS from the likes of Johnson, they ensured our demise. Leaving the EU has been nothing short of economically catastrophic for the rest of us in so many ways, and yet, no one is held accountable for the deceit or the incompetence. And that’s not even the worst of it. Now they want to use the lack of regulation to destroy our quality of life with legislation designed to remove our rights. The one thing the far right didn't mention about the EU, amidst the plethora of cattle dung and faux patriotism, is that it was protecting us from them and their increasingly dictatorial legislation.
As household costs rise exponentially we start to see just how incredibly unproductive we are as a nation. Evening our mainstay, farming, has been battered into obscurity by bureaucracy and the foreign competition our government welcomes with open arms. The tories have turned our little island into an economic desert where the only useful thing we have contributed to the rest of the world is a stirling example of how not to run a country.
During covid they partied, while we huddled inside, scared of getting or passing on the disease they told us was so dangerous you couldn't even attend a loved ones funeral. They invested our money in PPE companies they owned shares in. They forced decent hardworking underpaid front line service staff to have a covid vaccination despite having no evidence to ensure it's safety. They gambled with our health and they gambled with our money, and they lost on both counts. And yet, we are the ones who pay the debt.
And just in case you had any nostalgic loyalty left, they proved they cant even be loyal to one another, let alone the rest of us, by having the most public cat fight in history. They failed to support their own leadership, falling out amongst themselves and disgracing themselves with contradictions which would be laughable were it not happening within our own government, which instead, makes it nothing short of terrifying.
Now they are desperately clinging to their own sinking raft by attempting to appeal to what appears to be popular opinion with things like bringing back national service when in fact they are demonstrating, yet again that the only direction they have the ability to lead us is backwards.
They have evidenced time and time again in so many ways that they are so focused on their own personal gains via the institutionalised abuse of power, they can't even look out for each other - and yet they expect us to trust them to look after us?
In order for this election to deliver a message, we don't just need a majority win for another party, we need the Tories to be crushed in a humiliating unprecedented defeat that leaves them no choice but to dispand, or reform from the ashes with a new humble set of morally sound ethics.
If they lose respectably they'll just be back in another 4 years with a new set of spurious claims about all the wonderful things they'll do, aided and abetted by a vanity media which by virtue of institutionalised abuse of power, they pay for.
We don't just need them not to win. We need the level of their defeat to send a very clear message to All politicians and would be politicians regardless of the colour of their ties. We will not put up with being treated like this. The message needs to be loud. So loud, the party who does win has to take heed of it too. So clear, the age old questions start to be revisited, like why don't the very wealthy pay tax and why are politicians allowed to lie with no repercussions and what on earth is first past the post anyway?
We don't just need to say no to the Tories, we need to say no to the current state of our democratic system. The media turns politics into a popularity contest, so we end up falling out with each other instead of turning our attention on the people who are supposed to be helping us to live well. We need now to unite. We need to say no. And we need to say it with the cold hard statistic of the biggest loss in political history.
It doesn't matter which non blue you vote for (as long as it's, obviously, not Reform!). It only matters that you do vote, and for your area, you place your vote tactically with whichever option that has the biggest potential to significantly reduce the number of tory seats. Find out how to make your vote say “no” the loudest here
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