Since you are ‘genuinely’ asking. I will genuinely try.
I don’t think Reform will be able to get done what the country needs. But that’s not the point.
We have had 28 years of rot that started in 1997 with nu Labour. And it so deep seated, that it will take a shock of gargantuan proportions for something to change within the political establishment.
Blair and Brown were wrong on just about everything. They inherited a strong economy from Major and Clarke at one of the most politically stable periods in global history. And pissed it up the wall. None of their decisions stood the test of time.
Creating a bloated welfare state by making the majority dependent on tax credits and letting low wage culture set in so employers could be subsidized by the taxpayer rather than invest in automation.
Opening the borders to mass immigration. Immigration and change are inevitable. But this pace never was.
Selling our gold before gold prices sky rocketed
Starting the cycle of government debt that now has us at 100% debt to gdp ratio
And finally, being war criminals and de-stabilising Iraq and Syria, the consequences of which we live with to this day.
Then came ‘call me Dave’. A guy you wouldn’t pay to clean your shed. Continued and perpetuated the rot by never investing in infrastructure and having 0 grip on his party.
Maybot was an unmitigated disaster. As well as making a hash of Brexit negotiations, she signed into law net 0 without any public debate, leaving us with the highest energy prices in the world.
Johnson was a corrupt and incompetent lowlife, who used Covid to line the pockets of his cronies, while trying to massage economic growth, unsuccessfully, by driving net migration to a million.
Truss was a footnote in history with the right diagnosis about supply side reforms, but couldn’t organize a piss up in a brewery, let alone enact policies to make those reforms happen.
Sunak was a useless ‘piss in the wind’ kind of dude who had printed a borrowed £1 trillion during Covid to facilitate rampant corruption and then looked all wide eyed and shocked that inflation rocketed to nearly 20%.
And now we have Two Tier and his merry band of clowns. Everything is worse than it was a year ago. Who’d have thought that was even possible. Food inflation nearing 10%, gilt yields higher than when Truss was around, illegal immigration higher than ever, top rate rate taxpayers leaving the country, taxes higher than ever, economic growth nowhere in sight, and welfare and public spending is so out of control, the house of cards could easily collapse.
Reform won’t solve this. But what it may do is that it will consign Labour and Tories in their current form, to the dustbin of history. No one who is in parliament now should be anywhere near the legislature. It may take a shock like a Reform government for a sensible centre right revival to the conservatives, with a completely new crop of MPs, maybe 10-15 years from now . The Tories are so far gone, that it seems unlikely, but what else is there.