For me, the fundamental issue is our pitifully anachronistic electoral system that allows the party which the majority of those that voted did not wish for, to do what the fuck it wants for five years. It may, on occasions, produce strong government, but that doesn’t mean it produces competent ones; far from it.
The problem is that when Labour were lording it iver the Tories they did fuck all about it - because our political culture is rooted in self-interest, as is human nature tbf.
We’ll keep getting shit, career politicians, shit governments, the downward spiral continues - but don’t worry because we don’t have unstable governments like Italy did 50 years ago.
Our electoral system is the principal constant that runs through our inexorable (if faltering) decline as a nation since WW2 and yet there seems an astonishing lack of will to even consider changing it, even among Labour voters whose party hasn’t won a majority for over 15 years.
Why is it right that a party that secures significantly less than half the votes can do what it wants for half a decade - and why can’t people see that this is the principal reason we are failing politically, and more generally, as a nation?
in the meantime, the Tories will continue to be cunts and fuck all will be done about it.
