people voted to get the Tories out and now conclude that Labour are no better so they "may as well give Reform a chance". They aren't coming back to Labour, no matter how many Facebook adverts they put up telling us how hard they are going to clamp down on illegal immigrants. If they'd promised to tackle the employers who knowingly employ and exploit them, I might have more sympathy - that said, a Starmer promise means very little.

The options given this incarnation of Labour are indeed piss poor. Starmer has exceeded my worst expectations of just how bad he was going to be as PM - and I was expecting him to be shit. He's an unprincipled lying fraud whose horrible control freak coterie have driven away loyal members and activists, ruined the party's reputation and thrown the door wide open to the far right. As I feared, their priority is overwhelmingly to suck corporate dick with nothing of substance to offer people whose living standards have nosedived.

It's little wonder that low information voters are turning right. But I do despair at how easily they can be manipulated by grifters like Farage and "Tommy Robinson". Their brains seemed to be addled from a social-media-driven diet of misinformation and chest-thumping nationalism.