There is a real brittleness in British politics at the moment, and it seems that the reality is this is not going to change. It is no small thing that the primacy of the two leading parties has been challenged so comprehensively, that the genie is not going to go back in the bottle.
In Scotland, The SNP were returned to power, winning 58 seats out of 129 members of the Scottish Parliament. John Swinney, reinstated as First Minister has already stated that, though not in possession of a majority, he will not seek to form a working coalition and shall approach each Bill as it comes. On many areas there are crossovers between the SNP and the Labour Party, yet this is to discount the profoundly tribalistic aspect of politics at every level.
Even the SNP, on its fifth successfully contested Parliamentary election, knows the divisiveness of seeking a referendum on Independence, yet the rather key fact is that of the three other components of the Union, in each of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, their majority party is now an avowedly Nationalist party, seeking independence from the United Kingdom.
#KeirStarmer has, through the tinnest ear in modern British history, inadvertently dismantled the red wall, whose mortar was still wet after having been destroyed in the 2019 General Election, via a near total routing of the #LabourParty and it’s Northern and Midlands’ heartlands, by the Conservatives, and then subsequently rebuilt in 2024 – with Labour’s new supermajority. Well, at least as regards the Local Elections, this red wall is now #Reform teal (a weird mix of light blue and turquoise!).
Whilst Keir has promised “to listen”, and renew his message, he seems to have forgotten that that was his offer to the British electorate just 22 months ago: “Change”. One word, and one man, graced their 2024 manifesto. As any Brit knows, who had not lived upside down in a swamp for the previous 14 years, the country was screaming for change, after the abandonment of duty and the complete loss of credibility by the previous Conservative Administration.
What literally nobody expected, given the keys to the country, the shiny new driver meandered aimlessly through backwaters, hitting the beach, and not pausing either for breath or self-reflection, would drive his Party straight into the sea – thereby in one entirely unanticipated move he has potentially done more damage to the Union, than Robert the Bruce in 1328. An astonishing achievement if it had been intentional, and yet quite unparalleled as was actually inadvertent. The 2024 Manifesto did not say, “I promise to cause such dismay as to my aimlessness, that the entire country will rebel, ushering in a new age of the least tested party in British history – who seek a little Englander future – in direct contrast to everything that the United Kingdom has stood for, post Union – which I have also successfully hobbled”
But don’t worry, he has promised to “reflect and respond.”
So that’s ok then….😊🤦🏻
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