The Death of Democracy
What choice is there?
In a few days time the people of the UK will be voting for their next government. The keys to Downing Street is essentially a two horse race between Labour and Conservative. Or, at least, this is how it’s played out for many decades. But if the polls are to believed, the Labour Party are virtually guaranteed to win and so Keir Starmer will be our next Prime Minister.
This isn’t so much due to the strength of Labour policies but the existential collapse of the current Conservative government. After years of corruption and incompetence the country is desperate for change. As the main opposition party, the Labour Party has been given a clear path to victory. They will win because they are not the Conservative Party.
But how much of a change are we likely to get? Will we get a proper change in political direction, or will the change be in name only and business as usual?
For most of my life I have been a Labour voter. I voted for Tony Blair in 1997 that swept him into Downing Street, yet stopped voting for him after 9/11 and the Iraq War. I could not vote for a regime with so much blood on their hands who took us war on the basis of what was a clear and obvious lie. I only returned to the fold after he retired from frontline politics.
