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nineveh_uk) wrote2024-07-06 08:29 am
nineveh_uk) wrote2024-07-06 08:29 am
Elated relief
The 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.