Scareye
Well-Known Member
This is partly why people who are maybe disinclined to get out and vote next Thurs should do so in an attempt to remove as many of them as possible from parliament. They have gone, in probably less than a decade, from being a 'normal' political party to one that represents an active threat to democracy. Their behaviour both within and beyond parliament has gone beyond the pale.
It only took one generation of Republicans led by Newt Gingrich to poison the well of US politics in a way that they have failed to recover from and makes it hard for the US to pursue functioning politics and government.
Politics has always been a bit of a dirty game but VLOPs like X and Meta and their business models make maintaining fair and meaningful elections even more difficult.
Put aside for a moment their appalling track record in government, if we allow the behaviour we have seen from this incarnation of the Tory party to be normalised our politics will suffer for generations to come.
The British public needs to send a clear message to all parties that it wants a functioning democracy. A low turnout because "they are all the same" won't send that message, it will be business as usual.
The obliteration of a supposedly mainstream party, not simply because they were poor in government, but because they rode roughshod over our norms for their own ends just might. It will force the Conservative party to either rebuild itself into a functioning centre right party or essentially join forces one way or another with Reform. Either way we will know where we stand. It will also send a shiver down the spine of all the parties because it will show politicians that there really is a line beyond which as an elecorate we will not tolerate your behaviour.
Forget all the scaremongering about a Labour super majority, the best way to keep Labour honest is to demonstrate what will happen to them if they behave in a similar fashion.
So don't sit on your sofa next Thurs, go and make it clear that you won't have the piss taken out of you anymore by liars and thieves.
That's a great post.
