It’s particularly dispiriting to find that this virtue-signalling turned woke-bullying has captured TfL and therefore the entire Underground network, so proudly symbolic of this country’s resistance to totalitarianism during the war
Right-wingers always crawl out of the woodwork at the end. I believe that’s already well established. That and the usual election fearmongering getting to people.
It’s a brighter day, but it sure ain’t beach weather.
Labour got fewer votes than they did in 2019 (when they got stuffed); turnout dropped 7 points with almost the whole drop in the Tory vote going to Farage’s right wing Reform.
In essence the scale of Labour’s victory is more a by-product of the giant schism taking place in right wing politics than the result of any particular enthusiasm for their own political platform. Their giant majority is a lot more tenuous than it seems.
Still, we got to see the defeat of some truly odious humans and though I’m not a big fan of Starmer he seems to be at least minimally competent.
As far as I can tell, what England needs most right now is massive infrastructure investment. The new guy seems like a mega centrist type so I would guess that some form of large scale borrowing to fund large scale public-private partnerships would be right up his alley. They really have to boost the economy to recover from the self inflicted wound of brexit.