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31 January (Part 2) - Dithering no more

Probably this is not appropriate here but I am going to say it anyway. In the latter half of last year I found myself drifting back towards the Conservatives. Labour and the Greens are unconscionable. No one of sound mind would consider voting for them and the LibDems under Ed Davey are a joke. The only Labour voter in my circle of friends no longer attempts to rebut criticism of his party.

Having leaned to the right ever since the school mock election of 1959, Reform UK offers obvious attractions to me. Most Conservative MPs are LibDems at heart but I don’t really trust Nigel Farage. Not absolutely sure why, he says a lot of good things but…

Richard Tice does not present any such dilemma. He was hell bent on denying Covid sceptics employment and basic Freedoms. Sod him. Muhammed Yusef tried to put a colleague in jail by making accusations of violence which the CPS threw out as soon as they saw the police file. Another one not to be trusted. Hence the drift back to Mrs. Olukemi Badenoch. She was beginning to say sensible things.

And then she blew it.

When the Labour Government suggested that local elections might be cancelled to the extent that four year Councils would be extended to seven years she said that was a very bad thing which it obviously was, but then two Conservative Councils, later increased to four, said they were happy to cancel elections Kemi did nothing about it. An honest Leader would have removed the whip from the Council Leadership. But she did nothing. She is weak and useless.

And then she compounded her unsuitability for the Premiership. She said that Britain is not Broken. If she cannot see that it is, how can she ever hope to fix it? As far as I am concerned she has set me back firmly on the anti-Tory path.

Depending on who the candidates are in Belvedere, I will be voting for Reform come next May.

 

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