Great Plummet and farcical bollocks

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        Is the British Conservative Party capable of preserving itself? The 365 seats that it (shouldn't have) won in 2019 dwindled to just 121 yesterday. There has been a mass exodus of the electorate away from them. The most prominent casualties thereof include Defense Minister Grant Shapps, Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, former Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland, Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer, Transport Secretary Mark Harper, and Attorney General Victoria Prentis. The are now all seatless. Quite suitably, the most farcical prime minister of British political post-war history lost her seat. This is Rishi Sunak's predecessor, Liz Truss, who in the game of prime ministerial musical chairs was prime minister for a grand total of 49 days (!) 

        Nigel Farage, the ridiculous "leader" of the Reform UK party, managed to become elected after having failed to do seven times. Therefore, in electing him as an MP, a sufficient number of the electorate have had a common sense bypass. Exceptions to this are the 7 hecklers at his (pyrrhic?) victory speech, who outnumber the Reform UK MPs, who are a mere 4. The first heckler shouted "Nigel, you're a racist, you're a liar." The shallowness of his character was most clear when he replied, "Where are you from? Well, that makes sense." 
        Shortly thereafter, a second heckler yelled "you don't represent the working class." He proceeded to babyishly blather, "boring, boring, boring,", accompanied by a smug grin. Furthermore, a lady heckler said, "I'm from Essex, you're going to bring us division, not unity." He rejected this as being from someone planted as a paid activist rather than answering seriously. This writer, who assuredly knows that he is sowing division through his poorly disguised contempt for the other, was born in Essex. His pantomime-esque demeanour adds to the catalogue of reasons for me despising Reform UK, and Farage in particular. 

       Unity comes at a high price, if it ever materializes at all. Northern Ireland's largest Westminster party is Sinn Féin. A left wing populist party which has the aim of making Northern Ireland part of the Republic of Ireland, it's past is strongly linked to the Irish Republican Army, a former terrorist group which caused most of the carnage which predates the Good Friday Agreement (1998) . It practices Abstentionism, standing for election then refusing to take any seats won or participate in parliament at all, believing that British political institutions should play no part in governing any part of the island of Ireland.   

       Will the new prime minister, Keir Starmer, manage to fix even this and the so-called "backstop", one of the many side-effects of the Brexit mess. The outgoing conservative party, from Cameron to Sunak, caused both of these problems, in addition to all of the other smelly policies and practices which they unwittingly piled on with a trowel. 
 
        Farage claimed that Keir Starmer looked down at his notes 151 times during his victory presentation to the press. In addition to Farage claiming that Starmer looked down every 2.8 seconds, among other assorted bollocks, will the bog-standard choreographed arrival at 10 Downing Street be more than just showy razzmatazz? His campaign contained few new policy pledges, just being pleased that Labour managed to maintain its the large polling lead thanks to the electorate's large scale pissed-offedness. The new prime minister should go on really earn the landslide victory, making it more than just an anti-conservative mandate. Having cautioned that rebuilding Britain "will take a while", is the severe state of disrepair into which it has declined since leaving the European Union even fixable? 

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