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Is the UK living in 2021?
In 2021, Joe Biden had just been elected President and the US was about to plunge into four years of intense political incompetence and wokeness. So much went wrong but by 2024 Donald Trump was back and won the Presidential election, so offering hope to Americans.
In 2024, Labour won a 5 year term and after a year and a half of this, the UK feels like a broken country. The economy is flat-lined, the borders remain open to illegal migrants, jury trials are being abolished, and a sense of utter hopelessness prevails. How are we going to get through until 2029, some may ask and with good reason!
Well, I am here to tell you that we will.
This indeed may be our darkest hour but 2026 will bring hope. Despite Labour trying to cancel as many elections as possible, Scotland and Wales will go the polls and every indication shows that Labour will get clobbered. Reform should perform well and that will be an important step forward for them. In the aftermath of severe Labour losses, it’s very unlikely that Starmer and Reeves will survive.
So Labour will have to find a new leadership team and that’s when the problems start because looking around the Labour benches, it’s far from clear that it has the talent to credibly change. None of the likely successors to Starmer will do very much for one simple reason; the hard-left element on its backbenches will keep it where it is. You see Labour isn’t really a single Party, it is a loose coalition. And the tensions and strains within it aren’t going away.
As it struggles with the economy – (socialism doesn’t work) – attention will turn to from 2026 to 2029 as the real fear of a Labour wipe out rises. Hundreds of Labour MPs face political extinction so there will be a fear driven brake on at least some of the madness we have seen to date. Nothing concentrates the political mind so much as the need to survive.
