That's my fear Bobby. Not that Johnson will win an election, but that the endless scandals will be back and will undermine the UK's fragile reputation and inhibit any kind of progress.
Whatever Labour could have done or wants to do, the next government of whatever colour will have almost no scope to do anything, let alone borrow to finance tax cuts for the better off which frankly was obscene. The black hole is so big that things might not improve in my lifetime. What a thought.
The prime target for investment now is likely to become property recovery funds. Almost nobody wants to invest in UK manufacturing, and reportedly such potential UK investment as there is often on hold pending some sustained indication that financial stability has been restored.
But forced sales of houses whose owners can't afford their mortgage repayments will be a happy hunting ground for the rich with cash to spare. Later they will rent them back, or sell them back when some of that wealth will trickle down not in wages but by way of loans.
To be fair to Johnson (wince) he showed more of a heart than the low tax high growth ideologues. They have no time for levelling up, and the god of growth trumps decent wages, job security, employment rights, decent welfare standards - for people, not animals - and proper NHS funding. All the things that should be the real priorities for government - actually doing things for people, not minimising expenditure.
What sort of policy is it that says workers rights and job security must be reduced and tax cuts given to the better off to create growth, whether trickle down works or not? It's Victorian.
We have narrowly avoided a hard right takeover, for now. We were lucky it was so incompetently launched. But they will be back.
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