The simple truth of the matter is that Britain is not America, our PM cannot change things by executive orders.
If we want to be real, a whole array of policies would not be able to be implemented by the Reform party even if they came into majority power in 2029. Because they will have an incredible amount of resistance from civil service and local authorities. They will get stuck. This will not change or lessen unless they have been in the game for a while, 20/30 years with consistency let's say, have enough local councillors in various constituencies, and have changed their leadership.
Our folly is in thinking that once we vote a party in power the whole job is done along with our responsibility towards monitoring and pressuring the governance of the country. The real engine of the government is non-political or rather unelected bureaucracy. The way to get this engine to work is not by wishful thinking of "well let's get rid of them all" because it will never happen. It is the cornerstone of how Britain works, or in this case doesn't work. The trick is to make it efficient and get it to work with the political will as much as possible. And you can't do that if you are unsure of yourself as a Political Party as Tories showed in the last 14 years or if you have been maligned villain successfully in the eyes of the bureaucracy as Farage has been. Truth is irrelevant when it comes to perception.
So, I have come to learn that we need to stop being emotionally attached to political parties when it comes to getting policies into governance and the overall democratic process in any country especially in Britain. You may continue to disagree with me in this matter. But we cannot simply have what others have because we are not them, and no amount of wishful thinking will change it in the short term. If you want to change certain things then you need to understand the system and play it as best to your advantage as possible. Otherwise just go out for a full revolution and be done with it.
That doesn’t mean I am batting for one or another. It just means I prefer batting for the public, and blind allegiance to political parties do not matter in trying to achieve it. What I see right now is the new political right who have become the same “Never Tory” mentality like the dogmatic political left. Doesn’t matter of all the faults of the Tories. But what has been the result of the constituencies in the north of England for having this mentality over the years, they keep voting for Labour even though Labour has been betraying them for a long time along with the country. Attaching emotions to political parties as if they were football clubs with no consequences to the governance of the country is childish and we need to grow out of it.
I'm seriously thinking of becoming a Councillor..My son is older now, I'm not stupid and I think if I don't do it..who will? We need to start taking our country back from the inside..
That 20/30 years part is foreshadowing in more ways than one, and I actually hope we’re both wrong…
We do have an issue of “ somebody else’s problem “ here, and “somebody should do something” and we love our comforts here… I guess we need to be out of our comfort zone for change, for long enough that 2 active generations have experienced it, then we’ll see change. Or war, war will do it too