21 October - The only way is down
If
it had not been for a family funded birthday treat to The Shard I would
probably have been tempted to comment yesterday on Thursday’s by-election result.
Something along the lines of ‘richly deserved defeat’.
I have occasionally been slightly upset by what I have seen as adverse election
results, but not this time. To my mind Sunak has not done a single thing
domestically that I could applaud. It is quite an achievement to get every single decision wrong.
That is, not appeal to his so called core vote.
His conference speech did nothing for me, postponing HS2 I could be persuaded to go along with
but selling off the acquired land to scupper future construction is the action
of a traitor to the UK, which I am inclined to think Sunak probably is.
I looked forward to his plans to abandon the war on the motorist but the summary
of his speech that I read, in the Guardian I think it was, didn’t mention the subject at all.
In my view the Conservatives could still be in with a chance at the next General
Election but that assumes that Conservative values still exist in that party and
are brought to the fore; and at Cabinet level they simply don’t.
If he loses in 2024 Sunak and Hunt will have pretty much destroyed this country
by failing to correct the disastrous course first set in 2010. No, make that
1997. With Starmer in charge things could hardly get worse economically but the
British way of life will be lost for ever. With her in Number Ten the only way will
be down and I will probably be in jail for mistyping this sentence.