aibu to feel heartbroken by our Conservative govt -

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their ineptitude during covid19 costing many thousands of lives... their corruption privatisation of health service appointing cronies in top jobs at bbc defunding of education health transport over past decade their living parallel lives with private education, private health, private travel, multiple homes.... their arrogance and lack of decency is heartbreaking breathtaking and they have 80 seat majority with many years before general election....

It’s rotting the whole system from the inside. Appointing talentless, dim, useless people whose only virtue is agreeing with the hardcore group in the centre and not questioning anything. Appointing political people to coco leaders service posts. The list just goes on and on.

Tbh I don’t think it would make much of a difference who would have been in charge during the Pandemic. This government is giving contracts to its mates, the Cummings debacle, the general incompetence etc etc. I can’t even begin to imagine the chaos of January if they carry on in this vein with a no deal Brexit.
And despite generally being a Labour voter in the past they aren’t exactly the party of science and reason, I suspect they would have been fiddling while Rome burned during this, by navel gazing about identity politics and the like.

@OnlyFoolsnMothers

??!! Never thought ld want Theresa May back. At least she had SOME integrity said no one vaguely familiar with the windrush scandal

And the way that the police were treated under her watch.

@Juniperandrage

I'm not heartbroken, I'm furious

This.

OnlyFoolsnMothers
??!! Never thought ld want Theresa May back. At least she had SOME integrity said no one vaguely familiar with the windrush scandal

Yeah true! I forgot !!! Bloody shitshow.

I’m 57, I’ve never known a government as inept as this. They are like a cartoon of themselves. And that is saying something as l was a young adult in the Thatcher years. And she was even in every way.

@Elai1978

Thank fuck Labour aren’t in charge. Imagine having a PM whose brother was leading the Covid deniers.

I'm not responsible for one of my half siblings being an utter muppet who ranted on Facebook about how the mainstream media manufactured a fake illness to make Boris look bad out of a lack of patriotism over Brexit. Siblings don't all have the same level of intelligence or opinions unless you live in Midwitch.

And in any case, why would I trust somebody about anything in the world, ever who told me that Werewolves were real, there was one living in our bedroom and it would eat me if I crossed over a masking tape line stuck to the carpet?

You do realise that the leader of the Labour Party has changed now? 😂😂

Disappointed, but not surprised. Things are only going to get worse with Brexit, I’d like to thing Tory voters are realising what they’ve done, but the few I’ve spoken to have their heads firmly buried in the sand and are unable to see any fault what so ever with this government, they’re in complete denial, I don’t know how bad things have to be before they can admit Boris and his cronies aren’t the savours they thought they were.

They’re the pits but tbh my opinion of the labour government before was equally as low!

I completely agree. The state of politics is, depressing.

thegcatsmother
I'm no Tory fan and I think they are doing a shite job but I agreed with your points until you start on the Chinese. Our response to the virus has nothing to do with them.

The current cabinet are lightweight Brexit idealogues. Johnson is a lazy, incompetent idiot. But they have an 80 seat majority and they’re stuffing the Lords and the media full of their mates, plus handing out contracts to their underperforming cronies and there is very little we can do about it since so many people decided to vote Tory in December 2019. We’re moving towards a one-party state, which is a dangerous place to be ... but the majority of Brits ‘aren’t really into politics’ so they won’t even notice until it’s too late. Oh ... and for the people who don’t like where this is heading, it’s going to be a lot harder to leave now that freedom of movement has been taken away from us.

Chá chá. My brother voted Brexit.

@TheBlueStocking

I really hope those who voted Conservative are finally seeing what they voted for.

Uncaring, unkind, cavalier bunch of dickheads.

This! As well as being racist, but that did not put too many people of voting for them.

To me - Heartbroken is having a chronic illness or losing a loved one.

Not liking the way a government is trying to deal with the first pandemic in over a 100 years seems a little extreme. I know this view won’t be liked here, but I feel the government have done a good job. Tried to support the economy and jobs, alongside setting up new hospitals, using lockdown in areas where rates are high, testing in large numbers for a disease not even heard of at the start of the year, track & trace action and trying to balance health and economy. They frequently suggested how they needed people to act, and on lots of occasions people did the opposite - parties/socialising so it should be no surprise laws are bought in.

I haven’t seen any other political party saying what the government should do Going Forward. Complaining with hindsight doesn’t count.

Well other parties aren't going to offer advice are they? It's not rocket science. If you are waiting in the wings, ready to pounce and replace someone in their job, you'd be a complete fuckwit to offer any form of real advice wouldn't you?
No, what you would do is sit back and enjoy the show.

For crying out loud, heartbroken? That implies that the Conservative Party had your heart in the first place. That, in itself, is extremely unreasonable.

If you didn't vote for them, try being pissed off, angry, fuming, raging, disgusted or incensed instead. That's how change starts.

I get it - I’m also heartbroken that this is what Britain is. It’s horrible.

Thank fuck Labour aren’t in charge. Imagine having a PM whose brother was leading the Covid deniers.

You have read what Johnson's father was up to during lockdown have you? Not to mention his chosen advisor Cummings?

Still you might know there is a new Labour leader.

I voted them in as they were far more credible at the time than the alternatives. I’m really disappointed in the way they have dealt with Covid. Having said that, I don’t think for a millisecond that Corbyn would have done any better, so my conscience is pretty clear on voting them in.

The only thing which would make me stay alone would be if someone held a gun to my head

Remember the talk of military on the streets ?

I don't know. From an outsiders perspective the UK doesn't seem unusually bad as far as how covid has gone. Not many countries got it right, and maybe there really is no "right". A lot at the beginning was guesswork.

And as far as things like the NHS and education - yeah, not great, but they weren't great under Labour either. No party has really challenged Thatcherism yet, not that has been in power.

My sense is that Labour wold have done some things better, but other things worse, and I don't see their front bench members as being very strong, I don't know that they would have more to offer than a Boris cabinet, sad to say.

I think they're rubbish. Not as bad as Heath's Govt. (I go back a long way), but still rubbish. But "heartbroken"? No. That's far too strong a response.

I think saying that a political party has broken your heart is a tad dramatic. Perhaps you should stop watching BBC News Channel.