The nation is in an abusive relationship that's about to get a whole lot more toxic

Frankly, he deserves all he’s getting for presiding over this absolute shambolic mess. But the problem is, if he goes, can any of us have any faith whatsoever that anything will change? Isn’t it telling that out of four hundred of them, there isn’t one clear successor seen as competent enough for the job?

It used to be considered a good thing for the security of a nation when a Prime Minister had a huge majority. Whether you agree or disagree with a government’s direction, having enough MPs to govern is usually a good thing, as it means they can implement their plan.

But we now all realise this lot had, and continue to have, no plan. No direction. No idea. They’ve faced crisis after crisis. Sleaze, followed by U-turn, followed by lies, followed by scandal, followed by defence of said scandal.

No proactive answers, just reacting day after day to messes of their own making. I'd have respect if they actually believed in something. But they don't. They believe in absolutely nothing. There’s no strategy, other than wheeling out endless platitudes about ‘change’ and ‘working people’ which never manifest into any kind of meaningful action.

After fourteen years, it’s not unreasonable to have expected them to come up with some scintilla of an idea of what to do when they govern.

But they didn’t and just wanted power for power's sake. They certainly didn’t have any kind of ideological direction - did they not have enough time to think of one?

Granted, having an ideology or any kind of conviction is difficult as it means you have to nail your colours to a mast. It means you have to actually believe in something other than destruction.

And out of that something comes a strategy, the aforementioned ‘plan’. And that simply doesn’t exist.

The signs were there, this didn’t exist, with a manifesto so light on detail it made Hello! magazine look like War and Peace.

Presumably, voters, disillusioned with the Tories, might have thought that meant they’d be nimble in their governing. Instead, it contained hardly any detail, because there is no detail. I hate to Labour the point (no pun intended), but there is nothing.

Is this the best Britain can do? Elect people so scared to believe in anything, so obsessed with being liked, rather than being right, they end up in the absurd position of having absolutely nothing to offer?

Yes, having an ideology will mean some people might not like you, but at least it’ll mean some people do. This is the reason that, in under two years, having no opinion on anything has galvanised everyone else’s opinion and made Keir Starmer the least popular Prime Minister in history.

All they want to do is please themselves, their backbenchers, their unions or other interests. Chasing their own tails, or the tails of those they’re forced to pander to day after day, must be all they think about.

They sadly don't have the backbone or intelligence to do what's right for the country, either because they’re too stupid to know what that is, too scared to stick to an idea, or too fearful that what’s required might be quite difficult.

And this is why we’ve had endless U- turns. When they do decide something, it’s so poorly thought out, so far removed from what’s required to sort out the mess we’re in, or so steeped in the damaging envy politics they all learned in their student unions, they decide not to go ahead with it after all.

So we end up with a slew of terribly thought-out ideas, like the abolition of the winter fuel payment, the family farm tax, or the Chagos Islands, which are then abandoned.

Do they realise what a shambles they are? That they’ve made these things completely worse with their stupid, directionless scattergun of poor policies, many made under the decisions of the glorified accountant Rachel Reeves?

They certainly don’t act as they know. In fact, they just gaslight us, lie and insult our intelligence by telling us how wonderful everything is.

But you make things wonderful by building something, not destroying it. But that’s the only coherent thread which appears through the last 22 months: destruction.

They’ve destroyed aspiration with endless tax rises. Destroyed business with heavy-handed wage increases, workers' rights or National Insurance rises.

Destroyed the property market with stamp duty rises. Destroyed the rental market with endless landlord regulation.

Destroyed the criminal justice system by removing jury trials. Destroyed our relationship with our closest ally, the USA, by not offering support when asked (then predictably U-turning).

Last weekend was a perfect example. Bridget Phillipson, fresh from her destruction of private schools via her VAT increase, did the broadcast round on Sunday morning and said the issue Labour had after their dire local election results was ‘messaging’; that the good things Labour have done just haven’t got through to the electorate.

Yes, Bridget, we are the problem for not realising what a brilliant job you’ve been doing. This is a level of delusion that would require medical attention if it were demonstrated anywhere else other than from an MP.

What’s worse, gaslighting is Keir Starmer looking everyone in the eye yesterday during his dire ‘make or break’ speech, and telling us he’d ‘stabilised the economy’. We’re told inflation is ‘under control’. That, essentially, everything is great.

But no one feels everything is great, Keir. You’ve raised a different tax every ten days you've been in government. You're fleecing people until the peeps squeak.

Unemployment is up. Business closures up. Borrowing costs up. Debt interest up. You've flailed around with ill- thought out decisions which belong in student politics, and are in such a bubble you don't even realise, or worse, you do, and don't care. Destruction seems to breed genuine delusion.

Your cabinet is a joke, your backbenchers are part of the lanyard class, there's barely any real-world experience between you all, and you prefer ideological wars with wealth instead of doing what's best for the country.

So, can we just stop with this nonsense? Stop telling us about ‘achievements’ which are anything but. Because it’s bordering on the kind of gaslighting you get from an abusive partner.

In fact, if a friend were telling you about the kind of psychological abuse Keir Starmer is displaying in his relationship with the British Public, you’d suggest they 'Ask for Angela'.

But the blunt fact of the matter is, whether Rayner, Miliband, Reeves, Streeting, Lammy, Phillipson or whoever else takes the mantle, nothing will change.

Spending won't be reduced; the backbenchers with their gilded gold-plated lives and pensions will see to that. Taxes won't be reduced. Bills won't be reduced. Benefits will still cost billions.

It'll be more of the same, destruction, with just a different mediocre face on the wrecking ball, who tells us everything is great.

No wonder people don't vote. No wonder those who do go elsewhere. Labour have now taken to trying to destroy those people by calling them the 'far right’.

They can’t possibly try to have a conversation with these people, or worse still, help them. I believe they have nothing but contempt for them.

Starmer says he wants to get on with ‘governing’. I no longer have any idea what that means, as we certainly haven’t seen much governing since July 2024. It’s just more words. More telling us about ‘change’. More promises of big ideas, when there are none.

So this is it, Britain. Whatever happens, it’ll either be the same face or a different one, with nothing changing. An election can’t come soon enough to save us from this misery.

Until then, as far as I am concerned, the lot of them can go in the bin where they belong.