14 wasted years

For the most of the time I have been writing this blog, the Conservative Party has been Government, either bu coalition or on their own.

They took over two years on from the Global Financial Crisis, and embarked on a decade of austerity, with made the poor poorer and the rich richer.

I have read a report which suggests that austerity, asa concept, is based on a flawed spreadsheet of economic data. Tradition economics has public spending during a recession, so the decision ot cut, cut and cut again went against most economic models.

The country flat-lined.

The economy flat-lined.

And then came Brexit.

And then came COVID.

One a choice by this country, the other a natural, but predictable disaster

. For the most part, taking back control has meant deciding not to take back control, either because it was too difficult, expensive or pointless. And since December 2019, the Conservative Party has been given the greatest gift in UK politics, a thumping majority.

And yet when you look at what they have achieved with that 80 seat majority, it is pretty pathetic.The Parliamentary Party is riven by division, the so-called "six families", each with their own agenda and just enough members to block any legislation they do not like.

And they do not like much.

As duding the Brexit Parliament, its easy for a broad coalition to form stating and voting against what they don't like, but agreeing what is good and they do like, is pretty impossible.

So, this Zombie Government in this Zombie Parliament, lurches on from crisis to crisis, only existing for the persuit of power's sake, and doing nothing with that power other than engage in culture wars. Its now trans men and women who are the new front, as gays and homosexulas were in the 80s with Clause 28. Desperate migrants are to be rounded up and sent to Rwanda or elsewhere, because the Government would rather perform these cruel acts that actually process asylum claims.

Now it is the disabled and those withlong COVID who are to be targeted, as the Government tries to plug the gaps caused by the dramatic fall in those who legally can come here to work, as more draconian conditions are imposed.

And defeats at the ballot box gets worse and worse, but the lesson the Conservatives is choising to learn is that they're not right wing enough. Not sure we want to find out what's right wing of the current administration, but we do know that there will be an election by the end of January 2025 no matter what.

In the meatime, the country drifts, leaderless, engaging in culture wars against some poor minority or another, as tiny minded as you'd expect.