Short Memories

by Rab Bruce’s Spider

 

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It’s amazing how so many people have such short memories. Driven by the media, particularly the BBC, Reform continue to do well in the polls, and we cannot kid ourselves that Scotland is immune to their agenda. This is despite so many Tories defecting to join Reform, including some who have held ministerial positions in the former Tory Government.

 

I’m so old I can remember when people were prepared to vote for any party in order to get the incompetent and venal Tories out of Government. The problem back in those heady days was that far too many Scots forgot how Labour had lied to us in 2014. In spite of warnings from those of us who did remember, a lot of voters decided to give Labour another chance. Yet now, clearly disgusted by the bungling and cruelty of the new UK Government, they are looking to Reform to provide an alternative. All this would do, and will do in England at the next UK General Election, is put the Tories back into power under the guise of a new name, with Nigel Farage as PM.

 

Yet it is worse, because Reform Ltd have policies which most people would find abhorrent. Concentration camps for refugees, scrapping Human Rights legislation, doing away with the NHS and creating a US-style ICE militia are only the most obvious signs of what sort of Government Farage would lead.

 

I doubt very much that the media will go out of its way to remind voters that Reform Ltd is rapidly becoming a home for former Tories. Most people will surely see that for themselves. The big question is whether they will remember why the Tories were ousted from power in the first place. At the moment, it doesn’t look much like it.

 

The main issue is that voters are disgusted with the political class and want something different. If only they would look elsewhere than at increasingly right-wing parties to provide that alternative. As we can see in the USA, moving in that direction is not going to give us the sort of society we want.

 

 

 

 

  

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