A number of councils are now under Reform control. It's now up to Reform to prove that can govern successfully at a local level, so the public can begin to trust them at a national level. They. Must. Not. Fuck. It. Up.
Reform's internal political shenanigans of the past has to stop and they need to nurture the local party machine as it heads into power in several local councils.
The closeness of the race to be MP for Runcorn, just six votes in it, gives Labour cold comfort. I believe that if it wasn't for the issue around the sacking of Rupert Lowe and the various revelations about his actual immigration policy in interviews by Farage, Reform would have done a lot better. But some potential Reform voters wavered.
It's this sort of thing Reform need to stop. They need a clear and concise message with detail to back it up. If as Farage says, they are the true opposition to Labour, they need to put together a shadow cabinet and Farage needs to allow the party to organically agree policy and stick to it, rather than the on-the-hoof laise-faire attitude to policy Farage has. Telling people what they want to hear, or creating soundbites, is not a viable policy and Reform will be ripped to shreds in a General Election.
But a win is a win. Reform have put a shot across the bows of the legacy parties. They have sailed past the Tories and more than square with Labour, they are overhauling them.
Labour has to think long and hard about strategy going forward. Tony Blair (of all people) has opened the door for Labour to pull back on the Net Zero nonsense. Bankrupting the country on the altar of ideology is not the way to win hearts and minds. If we must attempt Net Zero, then we must as I've said before take everyone with us.
Enough of the sticks, the higher taxes, the directives, we need carrots and we need them now. For Net Zero to succeed, it has to be affordable and viable.
As I've previously blogged, renewable energy has had 15 years of subsidies. You'd think that by now the technology would be mature enough to pay for itself and there would be no need to incentivise companies to invest. After all, renewable energy is free, it's just the set-up cost that is required. Surely if you are getting energy for free and you are charging for it, you can make a bloody profit? If the set-up cost is too high to make a profit from free energy over the lifetime of the generation equipment, then it's not a viable option, is it? Don't get me started on the need to back up every single MegaWatt of energy with reliable fossil-fueled alternatives.
Then there's the clusterfuck of a policy that are the imposed changes on the automotive sector. Directives from on high telling manufacturers how many electric vehicles they must sell, while they can't sell them because people don't want them. Make the fuckers attractive, invest in the charging technology, make them cheap enough, give them enough range and people will buy them. Don't force dealers into underhanded tactics to sell customers vehicles that don't meet even the manufacturers expectations. That's just a dick move.
Anyway, hopefully there are consultants busy in meetings this afternoon as council after council fall to Reform, looking at what the people want and finding a way for the Labour party to deliver it.
I'll be looking for more direct action against the illegal immigrants. I'll be looking for Border Force to be picking them up mid-channel and taking them right back to France. I'll be looking to the Government to make aiding and abetting people traffickers a criminal offense. I'll be looking to the Navy to then enforce that law by Arresting and impounding the French Navy boats that regularly assist the dinghies, rather than pick them up and take them back to France.
I'll be looking to the Government stopping the ridiculous policy of housing illegals and instead just sending them back to a country of their choice immediately if they turn up without documents to prove their identity.
I'll be looking to the government to extract itself from any international agreement or body that hamstrings their sovereign right to control the borders of the UK.
I'll be looking to the Labour Party to at the very least consign the current cabinet and it's ludicrous ideology to history, including Kier Starmer.
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