Elated relief
Jul. 6th, 2024 08:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nineveh_ukThe Conservatives are out, an utterly ruinous series of governments ended. We have a Labour government who will get to pick up the pieces and then be blamed they can't work miracles in 6 months. But at least they'll try. A few criminal convictions for Covid corruption would be nice, too. We'll see. Good luck to Keir Starmer. I am happy. I'm very, very happy. It's just that utter relief is so overwhelming that the happiness has to wait a little. But that's OK,I can enjoy it over the summer. I intend to.
I did believe the polls. While polls can be wrong, the margins were the sort that weren't going to be wrong, were backed by a remarkable series of by-election results, and by the brutal fact that when people's lives are that bad, NHS waiting lists that wrong, and their relatives dead or business gone under from Covid, a snazzy campaign can't turn it around, and this was no snazzy campaign. This belief was buoyed on Thursday by a lengthy cross-country drive toantisoppist's (thanks, motorway incident) that took me through Tory heartlands, areas that the party has to win for a majority. I saw two posters for them, in a single village towatds the end of route, but long before that I knew beyond all possible doubt that they had lost.
I did believe the polls. While polls can be wrong, the margins were the sort that weren't going to be wrong, were backed by a remarkable series of by-election results, and by the brutal fact that when people's lives are that bad, NHS waiting lists that wrong, and their relatives dead or business gone under from Covid, a snazzy campaign can't turn it around, and this was no snazzy campaign. This belief was buoyed on Thursday by a lengthy cross-country drive to
antisoppist's (thanks, motorway incident) that took me through Tory heartlands, areas that the party has to win for a majority. I saw two posters for them, in a single village towatds the end of route, but long before that I knew beyond all possible doubt that they had lost.
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Date: 2024-07-06 08:25 am (UTC)And at least there'll be a stop to the mad hacking away at the last financial leg swathes of the HE sector are standing on i.e. international students.
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Date: 2024-07-09 03:09 pm (UTC)I really hope that there can be a far more sensible approach and money found to support HE, both institutions and the insanity of the student loans system. FE, too.
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Date: 2024-07-09 05:53 pm (UTC)Fingers crossed they keep him on even when his plan for prison reform turns out to be politically unpalatable (in the sense that the tabloids won't like it).
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Date: 2024-07-07 05:10 pm (UTC)Things in the US sound difficult and dispiriting. I hope it ends well, however that may be.
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Date: 2024-07-06 03:53 pm (UTC)And the bar for good governance may be on the floor right now, but at least I do think Labour will get over it. I feel like it may take a while for things to improve, but I can relax from worrying that the government is actively trying to make things worse.
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