Wednesday, 11 December 2019

General Election 2019

In 24 hours from now the country will have a good idea on which party has the biggest chance of forming the next Government. I hope with all my heart that it is not the Conservative Party.

I used to vote Conservative. I was proud to be a pro-business, pro-EU, pro-aspiration voter. Not any more. Since 2016 the Conservatives have swung so far to the right that there is no way I can vote for them tomorrow. And the lies they have told, with this deluded belief that they need to out-Brexit the Brexit Party.

Boris Johnson has no integrity. Neither do many in his Cabinet, I hope that the results tomorrow will be a blood bath for them. The polls are tight but it is still possible that there will be a hung parliament. That is what we need right now - some moderate politics that can guide this country away from the abyss. Boris Johnson is not the man to represent the country.

I am a bit scared for tomorrow, but I have a small feeling that the polls are closing in on Boris Johnson. Tomorrow I think that people will vote for anything but the Tories. Whether tactical voting is successful or not will be part of that story.

I am so fed up with politics right now. I'm fed up with Brexit, But that doesn't mean that I am prepared to waive through a Withdrawal Agreement that has not had proper scrutiny. This is what Johnson is hoping to do. Before the election was called Parliament refused to accept the shortened timescale for debating the Withdrawal Bill. So Johnson tried to call for the election. I am still a bit annoyed that an election was called at all, but I believe in democracy and I know that in the end this will be work itself out.

We have come a long way since that terrible year, 2016, when people who didn't have any opinion at all about Brexit suddenly decided to pin all their domestic woes on the EU. Fed by the lies and deceit of Brexiteers it was always going to be inevitable that manipulated electorate would vote for something that had been barely explained in full. Now that the full ramifications of leaving the EU are in the open, there is only disinformation (and there has been a lot of it) by the Tory spin doctor in chief, Mr Cummings, that can once again engineer a result to suit them. I just hope that truth and integrity prevails tomorrow. It is the last chance we have to stop Brexit.