After 14 years of Conservative rule, the UK has seen a significant shift in power with a surge in support for Labour. However, it’s still early days, but already some of the same issues of incompetence that plagued the previous government are still present.
What’s your take on the current situation, and what are your hopes for the future of the country?
Apologies if this is the wrong community to post this. Not trying to be divisive but constructive.
Honestly, I don’t think much will change unless there’s a fundamental shift in how the media operates. People don’t like to admit it, but newspapers and social media really do lead them around by the nose and until the public either wises up to that or it changes from within somehow, it’s just going to be the same cycle of the media amplifying every problem with Labour (real or imagined) while down-playing everything the Tories do and we’ll just keep taking half a step forward and five steps back every decade or so.
What I’d like to see the Tories pushed out to the unelectable fringes and to have Labour be the conservative option against a proper left-wing opposition of some sort, but realistically I don’t think that’ll happen. If anything it’s going the other way, where the Tories will end up being the less extreme option against Reform or something like that. At this point the Overton Window isn’t even attached to the house anymore, it’s halfway down the garden IMO.