Faith.

 The majority of voters lost faith with the Labour party an long time ago. No longer do they reflect the people that they hope would vote for them.

But it's clear that voters are quickly losing faith with the Tories as well. The supposedly Conservative and Unionist party is fast becoming nothing of the sort.

It seems that after the Corporate Cronyism of the Blair Government, we have the Corporate Cronyism of the Coalition and then the Corporate Cronyism of the Cameron Government. 

It seems that the May and now Johnson Governments are more of the same. The Pandora papers have opened up the web of mega-rich donors supporting both sides of the political isle. 

The British public seem to be losing faith with Boris Johnson. In conversations now, his stature is much diminished. Whereas he was seen as some Churchillian Bulldog leader,  he's now seen as a lapdog. Following the mostly conflicting advice from his panel of medical "experts", he has lumbered from one PR disaster to another, actively contradicting himself on consecutive days. Over the past 18 months he's not looked like much of a leader.

As a person he's popular. He did amazing stuff while in charge in London. But it seems that now in charge of Government, it's a different Boris we are seeing. He's physically aged in the last few months too.  It just makes you wonder what issues he's trying to wrestle with.

Is he being strong-armed by his billionaire backers to not increase taxes on the mega-rich to claw back the expense of the pandemic?

Is he trying to reconcile the inability to claw back the borrowing without significantly raising taxes for the poor? Is he having discussions with his rich mates who don't want to contribute? Are the mega-corporations refusing to co-operate?

All this build back better bollocks looks pretty shit to me. It looks like the near future is going to consist of sky-high inflation and hardship for those of us that are on PAYE and cannot escape taxation.

These are troubling times, because if the government doesn't get a handle on the situation (and there is next to nothing being announced) then the door is opened to the more extremist parties to gain a foothold, from both the right and left of the spectrum.