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I’ve said this before but I repeat it: I can’t see this shower seeing out its full parliamentary term.
Meanwhile, the economy looks to be deteriorating. I mean, even a Labour-voting ex-footballer such as Gary Neville isn’t a happy bunny!
https://news.sky.com/story/gary-neville-hits-out-at-national-insurance-rise-and-makes-prediction-for-manchester-uniteds-season-13403349
The October Budget statement will require added popcorn 🍿
I would suggest that a government that censors criticism of its policies isn’t fit for office. Do we actually have procedures for having an unfit government removed?
Stony
Labour has:-
A minimum 146 seat majority, in reality far more unless you believe the Libs, SNP, Greens, Shinners etc are going to side with the Conservatives,
A similar situation in the Lords not that they matter nowadays except when it suits the uniparty.
The support of a secretive and unaccountable civil service that determines nearly all governmental policy (or makes damned sure that anything it doesn’t approve of is never effectively enacted),
The support of a partisan Juduciary headed by a Supreme Court that does whatever it likes irrespective of parliament,
The support of politicised and selective law enforcement which has more and more of the country on the defensive – with good reason.
The support of a woke military, admittedly not much of a factor.
The support of an increasingly irrelevant legacy media headed by the quisling BBC
The support of the Church of England or at least those who sadly are empowered to represent and lead it.
and
The support of the wettest constitutional monarch in centuries.
So exactly how are Labour going to be removed?
They aren’t going to be removed for all the reasons you state. The *only* chance is if the new Jezbollah Communist-Islamist Party splits Labour so badly they explode, but otherwise, nothing changes until 2029. And I would not put it past the blob to simply ban Reform, which will be the 1642 moment.
For Charles I, only one axe was needed…you’re going to need a lot more axes this time around!
And this time around the other side is the only one with guns.
So, what exactly will the “1642 moment” arising from a ban on Reform look like?
Unless you know a few folk out in the country, like this guy.
Stoneyground
Rioting or revolution.
@Greg: “There are going to be a lot of people first against the wall, aren’t there, Wolfie?” “Yeah: I’m using Hadrian’s Wall!” – from Citizen Smith almost fifty years ago.
Back when the BBC used to take the piss out of left wing revolutionaries instead of employing them.
GregWA @ 11.55PM
In Texas, that number of firearms would be considered a starter collection. Now all he needs is the ammunition …
It was the logical move for the regime to make, so they made it.
We have gone way past the point where the elected government was weak or undermined, with well meaning ministers such as Jacob Rees-Mogg, or well meaning Prime Ministers such as Liz Truss, giving orders to officials and “experts” which were ignored or undermined. We are now at the point where the elected government actively wishes to do us harm.
It is not well meaning but weak or undermined, and it is not even neutral towards the British people, it is actively hostile to the British people – it wishes to crush their dissent, and to do us harm.
The election of 2024 was of historic importance – as, quite rightly disgusted (yes quite rightly disgusted) with the failings of the Conservative Party government, the British people voted in such a way that, although this was NOT the intention of the British people, allowed radically Collectivist people to be the overwhelming majority of Parliament – more so than at any other point of British history (think about that – let that sink in).
Nor is appealing to the Monarch going to help – His Majesty made that very clear in his Christmas broadcast of 2024.
Ministers are no longer, as Jacob Rees-Mogg and others did (however ineffectually), trying to hold back the officials and “experts” – they are now saying, in effect, the following….
“Do not whip the British people with whips – whip them with Scorpions!”
Indeed it may not be an exaggeration to say that the British government, elected as well as unelected, is, in effect, working towards the destruction of the British people.
It must be made clear that this is not just a “right and left” thing.
For example, the government of Denmark is of the left – it is Social Democrat government, but it is clear (and yes I have been to Denmark) that it is NOT working towards the destruction of the Danish people.
What is happening in the United Kingdom is beyond conventional “right and left” politics – something truly terrible is happening here.
The problem is representative democracy. It gives the elite the divine right of kings. They have 99% of the power.
Stuart Noyes – this “democracy” is not very “representative” as the will of the British people has been ignored, on almost everything, for the last 60 years.
But then you know this – indeed it is your point.
Paul,
When the Conservative Party ousted Ian Duncan Smith, i followed the process and a thought came to me. A petition to remove him from party leadership reached a set figure. That triggered a larger vote. He was removed as party leader.
I wrote to my MP and suggested a similar mechanism be used by the British people to strike down unpopular laws. He naturally didn’t believe such a system was compatible with our system of parliamentary sovereignty.
Now to quote Alistair McConachie – representative democracy usurps the sovereignty of the people.
Here we are in 2025. Being told there’s no political off ramp to increased civic unrest most likely leading to civil war within five years. The opinion of a single man maybe.