Careful what you wish for, it might turn out very different from what you have now. 
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Ludicrous maybe I find the article in the Spectator interesting. Having read it I feel slightly less guilty about signing Have you read it ?
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I’d imagine that it may depend on the referendum. Even though there were efforts from the leave camp to deny Brits living abroad the right to vote in the Brexit referendum, parliament decided that they could. So many did vote. Some living in the EU even voted leave - presumably because they wanted their lives to more stressful and inconvenient.
Brilliant Jenni…and more and more people are waking up the facts that he described.
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Indeed, finally the realisation has become clear, both are totally unsuitable to govern.
Millions of voters have simply had enough of the entire centre-left paradigm sustained both by Labour and the Tories in power since the turn of the century.
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That is not any sort of informed assessment. First, the Tories and their small government / austerity / neo-liberal free market approach was not centre left. That is rubbish to say it is.
Voters are frustrated but given that the Tories just took the biggest kick in a general election for decades its pretty obvious that the voters were mostly fed up of the Tories. To try to claim that this frustration was a dislike of centre-left policies is laughable. Only the Spectator would see the 2010-24 period of Tory policies as centre-left.
Begs the question, what right of centre (in their definition) policies would the Spectator want? Privatise the NHS? Scrap all state benefits? Deregulate all markets? Force the unemployed into manual labour? Establish a president for life along with a quasi-military junta? I know one or two on this forum who would support the last one, but mostly these are not things the voters want. So it was a dumb article and a dumb quotation from it.
Echoes from the 2024 American election.
I did that in America for 4 years. Sat in the cold and didn’t have heat in the winter. It was a nightmare.
PMQT just a noisy rabble, in a normal workplace this carry on would be unacceptable. A “show” and far away from it’s true purpose.
OK we both agree the petition is ludicrous and the Spectator is right.
crikey, Boris might get back in, yaaaa
Perhaps the end is in sight.
The Spectator is a right wing Tory rag.Of course it’s not going to like any Labour government.
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Qute from the article:
‘Millions of voters have simply had enough of the entire centre-left paradigm sustained both by Labour and the Tories in power since the turn of the century.’
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It’s a national pastime … not liking the government.
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Call a General Election - Petitions.
You’ll be able to watch online on the UK Parliament YouTube channel.
6 January 2025.
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Another fine mess.
Reported on gb news.
Sir Keir Starmer is attempting to “rush through” the controversial Chagos Islands treaty before Donald Trump takes office as US president on January 20, amid fears the deal could collapse.
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Betrayal and treachery a persistent characteristic of Labour leaders.
The chaos deal isn’t “ starmers “, it was started by the last government and, James cleverly was in charge of it at some point…
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