For those who follow politics closely the fight between Dominic Cummings and the PM over who is acting with integrity, is like watching two bald men fight over a comb. Or to be more accurate one bald man and one who couldn’t even be bothered to comb his hair to announce Prince Philip was dead. But for the average voter this is just background music.
As Donald Trump, a man who would have been considered too dodgy to be allowed to stand for the post of local dog catcher in 1930’s Alabama, made clear: when a large number of voters think all politicians are lying bastards who are in it only for themselves, being a lying bastard who is only in it for yourself does not hurt you very much. It took years for sleaze, back stabbing and incompetence to bring down John Major’s government, this one is so bad it makes John Major look like President Bartlet, but even so it will have to implode spectacularly to lose the next election.
Once huge factor that almost guarantees that is a fractured opposition. The SNP have their hands on Scotland and aren’t letting go, the Liberals are at 7-8% of the vote and the Greens are winning the same and mainly I imagine from young voters. These are all natural anti Tory voters, if combined they could defeat the Conservative Party and leave it in the wilderness for decades.
But they are not combined and this just makes the sleaze worse, why bother to clean up politics when you can’t lose? Short of the PM being caught breaking covid lock down rules in order to bonk another deb he is safe and he knows it.
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