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Roll Up, Roll Up To The Clown Show.

  • Writer: Jono
    Jono
  • Jul 8, 2022
  • 3 min read

Updated: Jul 9, 2022

Let's not waste any time in this blog with an absorbing intro, let's just go for it, shall we? How on earth did we end up with a Government and a Parliament that's in a constant cycle of failure and reckless leadership. Why, oh why.


I'm becoming quite vocal about how much I don't like politicians in the UK right now. So many of them are far too careerist and hypocritical for me. Poetic and rehearsed statements with little knowledge and ability beyond what their pre-written scripts and answers tell them to say and rebuttal questions with.


Has this always been the way? I'm 25, so I've only gotten the opportunity to vote for a new Government what feels like 16 times since I turned 18, 8 years ago. Oh, I also got the chance to vote on Brexit too.


Since I turned 18 and became legal to vote, I believe I have witnessed approximately 20 Conservative Party leadership changes. I am also now completely out of the loop on who is a part of the British Governments cabinet. If you asked me now who the current Health Secretary is, I think I'd have a stroke trying to guess who it could be.


The best thing about this is I do try and keep up with politics in the UK.


There are about 9 Conservative names in a hat, I believe, and what happens is the newly elected leader will be chosen from the hat by a party donor. Then, the new leader will choose from the other 8 names in the hat who'll be in his cabinet. From there, the names that don't get picked stay in the hat for a couple of weeks until it's time to do the cycle again.


How can anyone keep up unless you have a news channel running on your television 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? God forbid you blink, you'll miss a cabinet reshuffle.


Listen, it sounds like shouty absurdity from me, but you have to admit you wouldn't be that shocked if that turned out to be the actual way the Conservatives have been operating for the past 12 years.


The Labour Party is getting somewhat of a pass from me today because I barely know anyone who represents them, aside from the people of the past who got torn to shreds in previous elections. I know of the party leader, Kier Starmer, as well as a couple of other names who I believe are still Labour MP's, but that's it.


What's the point of getting to know Labour and their representatives? No one across Great Britain seems to have any faith in the Conservative party and yet for over a decade, they've been dominating Labour because people have probably rightly even less faith in them.


The opposition to the blue clown show is another, fake-progressive, red clown show. Give the Conservatives credit, they rarely try and hide their lavish lifestyles or absurd views. If you only read Labour politicians' tweets, you'd think they're saints. Dig any deeper than surface-level tweets and you'll find out they're just the Tories but with Labour badges.


Rant over. However, where do we as a country go from here?


The hat of Conservative names is proving to not work. The Government is a shambles. The cabinet is awash with names and candidates with little experience in the fields they're overseeing at the highest levels.


This isn't working for anyone and something needs to happen about it, although, nothing ever changes here does it? We're blindly following the American model of voting for whoever can market themselves nicely on TV and social media.


As a nation, so many of us aren't holding the whole of Westminster accountable for the overpriced and failing land we call home. We're providing one side of Parliament excuses about not being able to control anything anyway, and therefore not focusing on their ineptness to challenge, whilst giving the Conservatives a free run every election.


I suppose we could acknowledge this to be a vicious, abusive cycle. Something needs to give or we're going to have to get the boats ready and take America again.

 
 
 

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