I had a feeling the latest low inflation news might prompt Rishi to call a general election, and Boom! He's gone ahead and done it....
Personally I think this is a relief, the last four and a half years have just been total bullshit and the British public deserves a chance to go the polls.
And looked at in the longer term, what carnage the Torys have done to the UK since they came to power in 2010, that's 14 years of damage.
Actually most of the harm is through the slow burn cuts you don't see every day.... especially to early years and post-16 education and then there's the more recent freezing of the tax thresholds, meaning more and more of us are sucked into those 20% and then 40% tax bands, paying more tax when our wages are not keeping up with the cost of living.
And little in the way of long-term thinking either: more money for the old and less for the young, when the former have to pay for the later, and clamping down on immigration when it's the only thing keeping the dependency ratio up. Not that we shouldn't give older people decent pensions, but there's not been any addressing of the ageing population and how to address this going forwards.
Then there was Brexit, more pain, that's ultimately what's allowed our rivers and coastline to be more polluted, because we're no longer constrained by EU water quality standards, and the guy who put us in for that then slopped off, somehow he's now been made a Lord and Foreign Secretary, it shows you how little talent there is in the Tory party.
And then FOUR prime ministers since the last election, what a joke!
will voting change anything...?
Labour is your only real option to get the Torys out, that's the obvious sentiment. I mean look at this polling data...
It's just a Labour-Tory switch out. The only exception being Reform UK taking up more of the mostly Tory share in the last few months, that's probably a reaction to the continued high immigration levels.
I'm personally not sure what Labour stand for thats' that different to the Tories....? I guess we'll have to wait for their manifesto, most likely out at some point in the next fortnight, and hopefully there will be something RADICAL in there?
At the very least voting gives one an excuse to stretch one's legs en route to the polling station! And probably some mildly entertaining debates over June!