There is a build up of tension in the United Kingdom. I’m seeing increasing anger about the failure by the current Tory government to tackle the major issues that face Britain and the British people. The Tories are seen to be ineffective against problems such as immigration, energy security, the economy, law and order and the dominance of the Left in cultural and similar areas as well as steering the nation through the sea of damage caused by the pandemic and the response to it.

The current government, led as we now know by Ms Liz Truss the new Prime Minister, will be faced with problems that in some cases might well be the fault of ministers that end up sitting in the next Cabinet, who were probably the same individuals who signed off on policies or promoted policies that have helped to bring us to this current dire state. We could be facing a political situation where the Ministers are trying to put the image over that they are putting right their own cock ups whilst at the same time being politically incentivised to not admit that they were wrong in promoting or agreeing to policies that have, as we can see just by looking around us and talking to ordinary people, caused an awful lot of probably avoidable problems to the nation. It’s a mess. It’s a worse mess than what faced the government of John Major where the government was increasingly seen by voters as culpable for policies that went down badly with the public or which ended up failing dismally and often in a costly manner.

I say it’s worse because back in the mid to late 90’s the economy was at least functioning relatively well. There was not the dire grinding and often sudden unemployment of the early Thatcher years nor was there excessive industrial strife. A lot of people, not everyone of course but enough to make a difference, were doing reasonably well. People could, for example, buy cars on HP and have a reasonable expectation that they would keep or get enough work to service the debt long enough to buy the car outright.

Now however things have changed and not for the better. We have a situation where the economy is not doing good and neither are other aspects of how the country is run and it’s in this position because of the decisions of the Tories.

None of the Tory governments from the end of the Coalition onwards have dealt with the root causes of our current problems. They didn’t look at or ameliorate the egregious effects of Ed Milliband’s Climate Change Act of 2008 which baked in to British politics and administration the ideologies of the Green/Left. The Tories never tackled the bloat in our public services created during the Blair / Brown years or ensured that money allocated to public services were spent on the front line rather than the back offices of those public sector entities tasked with providing such services. None of these Tory governments looked to reform or replace the Equalities Act which although laudable in its aim to have people treated equally, has turned into a destructive legislative disaster which because of its instruction to denominate groups of people to be treated as if they have ‘protected characteristics’ and therefore be treated differently or advantageously from the majority, has brought division rather than integration.

It is also the same situation with regards immigration. This has been a massive issue for years among ordinary men and women (not just White Christian Britons either) who are seeing our borders almost completely unguarded and our public services put under strain from people who are more often than not, not exactly the best or most contributory that the world can throw at us but who instead are chancers playing the systems for what they can get out of it. Unfortunately for all the noise the Tories make about controlling excessive numbers and inappropriate types of immigration, the situation has continued to worsen.

The Tories are in a position where the mess they have to sort out is not one that was left by the Labour Party, as was the case of the Thatcher government in 1979, but one that the Tories have created themselves. It’s not Labour who are responsible for Britain’s current immigration disaster nor the extreme idiocy of shackling the country to a renewable energy policy that just does not work and which is reliant on technology that is either not reliable per se or not reliable with current technologies. The Tories could, post 2015, have properly controlled our borders or invested in nuclear energy or utilised our own energy reserves or coal and natural gas but they did not.

The result of the multiple failures by the Tories are that the vast majority of people now face immense financial hardship which is only partially due to world energy markets and seeing our society egregiously damaged by policies that are promoted by those who will never have to suffer the effects of such policies. The Tories, a party that I once voted for in part on the grounds that they were fiscally competent, have also thrown obscene amounts of money around on stuff that does nothing to benefit either British industry or Britons themselves and who seem to be consistently outmanoeuvred by civil servants and leftist ‘charitable’ organisations.

The Tories are bad and have helped greatly to bring about a situation where both our economy and our society has been degraded. Normally this situation would be amended by a competent Opposition offering their own solutions to the problems caused by the governing party and showing the voters that they could do a better job. Unfortunately for us and for the state of democracy, we have a situation where the Labour Party, the primary opposition and the Lib Dems, the junior opposition party, are just as bad as the Tories or maybe worse. We now have three main Parliamentary political parties who are as bad as each other and this does not give me a massive amount of confidence that any of them will solve the massive problems that Britain and its people currently faces.