We may not see eye to eye on Labour, it seems we are approaching it from different angles. But we do have in common having little faith in the current Labour leadership.
TBH I have no faith in the party anymore, its too fragmented and it doesn't matter to me what sort of leader Labour have, a left winger, like Corbyn, would never get elected (
assuming your media bias is correct) and the centre-right (
if that's what Starmer & Co are) even if managing to get elected, would get nothing done for the majority of the populace, because the party overall has no real 'common ground/understanding of it's natural constituents 'wants or aspirations', nor even a true common purpose (
which unites) except hating/ousting the Tories and that is not what people want to hear. With so many people still not bothering to vote and their 'red wall bedrock' votes departing Labour have turned themselves into a permanent opposition; in terms of ideas, in terms of ever reaching the parts of the country they use to reach and they have lost Scotland, possibly for at least another generation
(although some movement in recent Local results). In my view in Scotland they should be after the non-Tory (
Keep the Union) vote.
Labour is (
after these local elections)being seen to be doing well in many big cities, so feels 'its getting there'; the trouble is to 'get there' its going to have to move resources out of the big cities into the smaller towns, to do the
real 'levelling -up' which it should have been attempting back in the Blair days when it had the big majorities... but its a massive job, which even if they attempt it will decimate their voter base in the big cities...
between a rock and a hard place, just about sums it up.
Yet when you look at the amount this Tory government has spent on PPE contracts to "friends" which don't supply and billions on track and trace etc.
Yes admittedly that was not good, especially as it didn't really help; but you know in a weird way many people almost
expect this of the Tories, '
jobs for the boys' and
'mates rates' are phrases/ideas found in almost any strata of the British public, not just in Tory circles.
The problem is the whole government procurement system is a complete 'ba**'s up' and has been for many years, stretching back to the 'Blue-Streak' missile debacle in the early sixties when contractors had to repay £M's. Through to the 'crap' weapons and armaments and military vehicles sent out to protect our troops in various conflicts over many years, much of them when Labour was running the show.
The truth is
all Governments waste/or are profligate with money, the Tories probably more than Labour.... but only really because they have been in power longer.