Anyone worried we will shortly have a hard right govt?

[AdmiralButterfly]

I am. Whether it comes from Boris Johnson or similar or a shock win at polls by Brexit Party (in general election not euros).

I think the current government have been leaning increasingly to the right for ages now, the persistence with things such as Universal credit and the ever widening gap between rich & poor, lack of action over Grendel, NHS/education cuts....
It's just a hideously sad but natural progression for these people who have been trained since Eton to ignore the poorest and most vulnerable in society in their efforts to profit hugely. I'm so angry but doubtful of positive change

Yep, it’s looking pretty shit. I watched Channel 4 eviscerating Farage’s funding, how he just let it glide off him and today see Brexiteer’s saying they don’t care and I just despair.

Then I consider Theresa May’s likely list of successors and think we’re even more fucked. Boris should have disappeared into political oblivion after his bumbling stint as Foreign Secretary Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe to have her Iranian prison sentence doubled. She’s been separated from her infant daughter for over 3 years now. I imagine Boris’s efforts at negotiating with the EU will have similarly catastrophic results.

Yep. Everyone I work with votes Labour and hates the Tories whilst also loving Nigel Farage and livid that they didn't get the Brexit they voted for. Very muddled thinking. I live in a very deprived part of the country and we work a minimum waged job.

They are all voting Brexit Party in the MEP election next week.

I'm talking to lots of people that thinking Labour and JC are as bad as the Tories. Media has really done a job on them.

Boris should have disappeared after the Garden Bridge fiasco, though admittedly the system needs to be changed in order to ensure people can't spend money that way.

I think we'll get some kind of hung parliament next time though.

Politics is heading to the right all over the world .... and Trump has legitimised a lot of previously immoral, conservative viewpoints and opinions
Now perhaps if we had a plausible opposition ....

With members of the current government talking about making pacts with the Brexit party, it’s inevitable. Really frightened about the future. Not for me and mine, we’ll be fine, comfortably off but not enviably so, own home large enough to accommodate adult children if it gets that bad, provision for old age taken care of. But for those whose lives are financially more precarious, are disabled or disadvantaged in some other way or frankly are not white British I think life could become very uncomfortable indeed.

Just when things look as if they cannot get any worse we see Boris Johnson plastered across the media as a likely leader. This spectre of his incompetence looms large in my nightmares as this country fights for its economic life and status in the world. It will be the end of the Conservative Party as a government but not before the damage is done not for the present but for future generations.