They’re not going to out-populist Reform and the “woke”-obsessed Conservatives with their irrelevant culture wars policies (if you can even call them “policies” without laughing at the idiocy).
Starmer & Co. are meant to be our Government, currently, not some slogan factory unworthy of A-level politics students. They need to show some leadership and implement evidence-based policies for the collective good of all UK citizens, not continue this pandering to ridiculous ideologies or focus groups/ Daily Mail headlines, and incoherent set of objectives which pull in different directions and don’t do anything to plant the seeds of any kind of recovery from the last two decades+ of economic mismanagement. Frankly, they need to grow up and get on with the job they’re being paid to do and what they’ve done in the last year shows absolutely zero sign of a competent, rational Government which is very disappointing.
This obsession with immigration is a huge distraction from the obvious steps that need to be taken to start to improve the UK economy. This will only happen by increasing productivity because that is the only way that living standards can rise, for the first time in two decades. The lack of even the most basic steps towards beginning this process (and, indeed, many of their actions actually undermining any prospect of it) is the fundamental driver of not-very-smart members of the electorate being drawn to the nonsensical policies of populists that won’t work and are designed purely to rile them up about the symptoms of the problem rather than suggest any measures that would actually address the causes of falling living standards.
There are many sensible people in the UK who would vote for a sensible party if one existed, and many others who aren’t very sensible but would vote again for a party that had actually done something useful in Government and resulted in them being better off than they were before rather than spend their entire term of Government focusing on soundbites and political optics: the proof is in the pudding.
Sadly, for the last 3 or 4 elections at least, there hasn’t been a single political party in the UK which has been capable of producing a viable manifesto that wasn’t pure economic fantasy, so living standards will continue to decline.
If the UK population decides to continue to indulge in this idiocy, having learned nothing from Brexit, then the old adage of a country getting the Government it deserves will continue to prove itself to be true, to our detriment, and the decline in living standards will accelerate.