The country wasn’t as divided in 2001 as it is now

John Major’s disastrous Tory government was recent enough in people’s memory to not vote for them and New Labour were centrist enough to attract the majority of the country, who were pretty content with their first four years. This was before 9/11 and the rise of the far right started working its way into politics, Gordon Brown’s inept leadership and a global recession which the Tories capitalised on and blamed on Brown. A lot of people were angry with the government by 2005 but even staunch Tory votes thought Michael Howard was unfit to lead and Blair still ticked all their boxes. Now though, the Tories have deprived the country enough since 2010 to convince the more hard-up public, while trying to attract those drifting towards UKIP, that their problems are down to immigration and EU and the wedge that has been created between both sides of the argument will probably never heal. Both sides now feel that the stakes are too high not to challenge family and friends over differences of opinion, which social media is giving a platform to, and both sides feel a sense of injustice in the process. Nobody likes being challenged though, so the default attitude from both sides is aggression which only keeps people more set in their own ways, backing their preferred political party like a football team whatever their chosen party does. It’s a mess and now we have a Conservative party in the grip of the far-right and a Labour Party too far left to convince people to leave them. People on both sides are terrified of the outcome for good reason.

Ps, please vote for whoever keeps the Tories out.

Posted By: tim berry on December 12th 2019 at 09:46:35

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