The poll results don’t surprise me at all, sadly.
Plenty of people here who are not those most severely impacted by the disgraceful policies implemented by this government, so don’t care enough.
I would have thought that the exposé of the £150bn of public money wasted on croneyism during COVID would have been sufficient, but too many just don’t care. They also don’t seem to care about the tens of thousands of avoidable deaths thanks to the poor response early in the pandemic and the shambolic situation aren’t Christmas.
All this “oh well the opposition is awful” - all a load of absolute crap, pushed by a media run by those benefitting most from tory policies. What is it that would be so terrible - so much worse than what we have now - if Labour were elected? Keir Starmer isn’t my ideal PM, and Corbyn would not have been either, but I’d take either over what we have now. Our politics are so skewed to the right that some people genuinely believe that Labour represent hard left ideas even when what they’re proposing is slightly left of centre.
We have so many ridiculous situations in this country, like rail companies - every single rail company in the UK has a European national railway as a large shareholder. The insane costs of our privatised system are subsidising nationalised railways around Europe. It’s an embarrassment.
I will never cease to be amazed what these people are getting away with, and the number of people that just don’t care.
And to put this in context, I would personally be financially worse off under a Labour government too. No doubt I would pay more tax, but would do so happily for better funded public services. I am not amongst those groups who are the most severely affected either, yet I still care enough to want this government out. I have two disabled children, I am appalled daily at the horrors faced by disabled people and their carers in this country. I am disgusted by the way we as a society treat our most vulnerable, and by the deliberate underfunding of the NHS. After years of “no magic money tree” mockery, the behaviour of this government over the past year shows just how much money they have to throw at shit that doesn’t even work, if it’s the right people involved.
And who will have to pay to get us back to a stable financial position? There’ll be lots of talk about how we all need to tighten our belts further, while those who’ve profited most during the pandemic will still get away with murder in terms of taxation (not surprising when you let the biggest corporations help to write your tax law).
I can’t get my head round it at all, it’s beyond depressing.