"Jacob Rees Mogg. I still struggle to believe he's a real person and not an actor playing a part."
I still struggle to believe he's a real person full stop! He'll turn out to be some animatronic thing!!
Cameron for putting us in this shit in the first place without even first defining brexit or organising plans for EITHER result.
May for sheer incompetence! While desperately hopelessly clinging to an illusion of power!
Bojo & farage for all the shit stirring!
Ids for just being a tight evil bastard and mcvey and Rudd for perpetuating his crap! If I could I'd make him live in social housing on minimum benefits the rest of his life!
Hunt for screwing the nhs.
Frankly a much shorter list would be the ones I DO like!
Blair for wrecking the Labour Party, illegal war, Paying lip service to dealing with deadbeat dads, falsely presenting tax credits as helping the poor when actually they've kept wages down... Need I go on?
Although all that said the one thing I think that's lead us here is something which is sadly nobody's fault - John smiths death. The greatest pm we never got a chance to have.
"But the architect for so much division in society goes back to Thatcher - in my lifetime, anyway." I'd agree with this. Also the state of the economy. You cannot run a successful economy that doesn't MAKE anything! That doesn't have anything worth selling nor the skills to do so. Privatisation and deindustrialisation by her govts are the worst things that ever happened to this country.
"David Cameron. I hope he goes down in history as the most cowardly PM we have ever had." Yep
May as the most inept & thatcher the least compassionate.
I say to get politicians we deserve/need:
Make anyone wanting to be an MP live in social housing on minimum benefits for at least 6 months.
Ban expenses & second homes - everyone else lives off their wage so should MPs., accommodation in London for the non local ones should be essentially a block of flats that remains owned by the state. With conference & dining rooms & commercial kitchens on ground floor.
Link MPs salaries to average uk wage - see it rise pretty much fucking instantly!
Ban MPs having shares or ownership of commercial interests while serving, including property/being landlords - it's a conflict of interests. And don't let them simply transfer those interests to spouses/DC either.
Sadly this one would exclude mhairi black who I love but still - before becoming an MP they must have been employed in a "normal" non political job for 5 years first.
None of this eton - Oxbridge doing Ppe - possible post graduate law qualification - first "job" working in a law firm connected to Westminster or becoming a councillor or lobbyist crap!
No! Do a REAL job in the REAL world first!
If they fuck up ESPECIALLY if they blatantly lie in the course of being an MP instant dismissal (triggering by election) and not allowed to be an MP again.
Re farage - I know 2 of the places he stood for election VERY well, that someone with his views didn't get elected in them was actually really bloody surprising (as I'm sure it was to him!) as these places are well known for very similar views on the main issues.
"And I still do not understand why people hate Blair. Under his stewardship UK was positively steady compared to now" because it was a false security that anyone with any sense could see would cause problems down the road. I never trusted him, greasy little spiv who barely concealed his sycophancy for thatcher.
Cowjumping investments built on sand! And frankly any even pretendy socialist was always going to LOOK good in the immediate aftermath of Thatcherism. Blair was all smoke & mirrors.
"My father detests Rees Mogg and is his constituent and active in the community so keeps coming across him. Dad tracks what he does in parliament and then writes to the local paper telling them what he is up to to dob him in." Wish I could buy your dad a drink! Good in him!
"Whereas Blair betrayed everything Labour should have represented" THIS!
"The lack of affordable social housing can be traced all the way back to Thatcher starting the sell off." So true! And it blows the myth of "fiscally responsible conservatives" right out the water! A fiscally responsible entity DOESN'T sell off for short term gain things that long term keep money coming in!! That goes for housing, energy, telecoms (the industry could have been opened up with one 'company' remaining state owned - just like the BBC v commercial tv. HUGELY short sighted to sell this), manufacturing... Just bonkers!
"Meanwhile no one addresses the shortage of housing" said it before seen plenty others say it too, investing in building social housing would create homes, jobs, boost the economy, improve community relations and bring private rents down (that's why tory landlords won't vote for it).
I could go on and on and on...