dfk41 I think the Brexit referendum was more black and white. You were either in one camp or the other. This is asking folks who may have or may have not voted for Labour to cast an opinion a few short months into their tenure. If you have a Manifesto, are voted into power on it then act upon it then fairs fair. If however you win an election then start to do things that are not in your manifesto and voted upon……..if Labour had stated they were going to withdraw for example the winter fuel allowance, or fiddle with farmers IHT then they might have not won
The NHS is still waiting on the promised additional £350m p/w that we previously paid to the EU. ;-) Using that logic, if people realised that this wouldn’t happen, they may have voted differently. :-) But what’s done is done.
Same applies to the General Election. I might argue that Labour didn’t win the election, rather the Tories lost it. The Conservative Party is in absolute disarray, jumping from leader to leader, even when in power - each with less merit to lead the party than the last, never mind lead the country. And each with a different manifesto that the public were never even given a chance to endorse or reject.
Labour are also a sh!t show but they capitalised on the Tories disarray. They’d argue that tough decisions were needed to increase public revenue due to the mess left by the previous incumbents. The Tories wouldn’t have been immune to these pressures - they knew they were on the way out for most of the last term so short term wins were the order of the day.
A party is elected to govern for a set term. They get to use that term to make changes that they hope will get them elected for a further term. If they don’t, they get voted out. The incumbents get to decide when they call an election and common sense says they do this when they have the most chance of winning. The petition won’t make this happen any sooner, more likely the opposite. It would be foolish to call an early election when unpopular. We’ll see very different budgets and policy announcements in the year preceding an election from Labour. It’s all a big charade. Same sh!t, different day!
