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Originally Posted by Chris
For all your chest beating and lamenting about the state of the Tory party and the mess it is presently making of the country, you’re clearly content to continue to support them and give them another 5 years at it. No wonder that you can’t understand why someone might vote for a different party - you see the value of doing so only as a punishment, some sort of means of disciplining the rightful party of government so that it might learn the error of its ways.
The thing is, they are not the rightful party of government and voting for someone other than them isn’t a punishment. It’s an alternative choice. As things stand right now it is hard to believe Labour could possibly be as bad. Yes, there are some complete wingnuts on their back benches, but then there are some complete wingnuts sitting behind the Prime Miniature in the commons right now (and one or two sat next to him as well).
Starmer doesn’t fill me with paroxysms of joy but he does strike me as a capable, if boring, leader, with an eye for detail and experience of running a serious public service. He literally can’t do any worse than Rishi Sunak and given Sunak’s almost complete disconnection from how most of us actually live in this country he is almost inevitably going to do better.
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Succinctly put and every observation spot on from my point of view. It's somewhat dissapointing that I feel so underwhelmed at the prospect of Keir Starmer running the show but your last sentence describes the situation very nicely.
