13 wasted years

On 6th May 2010 there was a General Election, after six days of negotiating, on 11th May Cameron was made PM after the Conservatives entered coalition Government with the LibDems.

Although at the time, those 5 years were viewed very badly for the LibDems, with hindsight we can perhaps say they stopped the Conservatives going off the rails, big time.

In 2015, in order to fend off the Brexit Party, Cameron promised a simple in/out referedum on membership of the EU.

The rest, as they say, is history.

So, the Conservatives have been power, as the largest party for eight years two of which was the hung Parliament that argued over the details of the TCA and WA, so that is six years with, as DAG says, is the biggest gift in UK democracy: a working majority.

The Goverment, having a majority, should be able to get whatever agenda it want's through Parliament. Especially if these are manifesto pledges, then by convention, the Lords could not block it.

But the Conservative and Union Party has pissed it away.

Partly because it is riven with factions, although Johnson purged the traditional "one nation" moderates in the run up to the 2019 election.

At which he won an 80 seat majority, which apart from passing his Oven Ready Brexit, it has done nothing, mainly because nothing what could be described as radical can be agreed. Any weakening on the PM's headbanging agenda would threaten a vote of no confidence, though the Windsor Framework has tempered that, but with every move to a more rational relationship with the EU is something like the Uganda or flotating prisons for migrants to use as red meat to the headbangers.

Heck, he can't even sack the Home Secretary for running her own immigration policy, or breaking the law by speeding, denying it, four times, trying to get the Civil Service to get her out of the points by arranging some one to one re-education.

Quite what a Minister would have to do, even under Sunak, to have found to have broken toe Ministerial Code is something of a mystery. Braverman was once sacked for bullying under the code, by the then PM Truss, but a week alter Sunak brought her back into Government.

So, we drift, rudderless towards a General election, still some 18 months away. Each day the country shets a little shittier, our rivers more polluted, more countryside built on, and the Government refuses to act, instead asking water companies not to pollute. Isn't that what the Evironmental Agency and the Secretary of State for the Environment are actually for?