quase no meio desta campanha eleitoral e o que aprendemos até agora? Starmer e Sunak são de madeira, não ouçam e conversem sobre outras pessoas. Eles poderiam aprender com os rhun apalwerth do Cymru e o Stephen Flynn do SNP - articulados e envolventes palestrantes que se depararam com a TV como humanos reais, assim como Carla Denyer do Green Party. Evento de arrecadação de fundos em Londres para Donald Trump, um criminoso condenado e um homem que não apenas rejeitaram o resultado democrático da eleição dos EUA, mas também incentivaram seus apoiadores a tumultos. O Lib Dems é muita cobertura, mostrou -se que ele tem uma melhor seleção de equipamentos de clima úmido do que Sunak, mas, mais importante, eles são a única festa falando sobre assistência social e água limpa. Um estado socialista de uma parte para tentar minimizar um limite total. Johnson. Ou treliça liz. Política e políticos estão mais baixos por meio século. Como o professor Sir John Curtice disse:
- Neither Rishi Sunak or Keir Starmer are likely to follow Ed Balls or Michael Portillo into post politics television careers. Both Starmer and Sunak are wooden, don’t listen and talk over other people. They could learn from Plaid Cymru’s Rhun ap Iorwerth and the SNP’s Stephen Flynn – both articulate and engaging speakers who came across on TV as actual humans, as did Carla Denyer of the Green party.
- TV debates are awful.
- Nigel Farage says people shouting at him in the street is a “threat to democracy” but is apparently happy to attend a fund-raising event in London for Donald Trump, a convicted felon and a man who not only rejected the democratic result of the US election but encouraged his supporters to riot.
- The Tories blame Covid for a lot that’s happened to the economy but every time they mention the pandemic it reminds people of Partygate and Johnson’s lies.
- Ed Davey’s often daft stunts have got the Lib Dems a lot of coverage, shown that he has a better selection of wet weather gear than Sunak but, more importantly they’re the only party talking about social care and clean water.
- The Tory manifesto seems to be a rehash of the last one and as, Frank writes in his blog, at least some in the party are waving a white flag but is now using scare tactics about a one-party socialist state to try and minimise a total wipeout.
- Labour is terrified of talking about tax yet incapable of steering that debate into one of honesty about what they would prioritise for spending, why council tax needs reform which obviously might mean some increases and they’re failing to hammer home the flagrant waste of public money under the Tories.
- No one’s seen or heard anything from Boris Johnson. Or Liz Truss.
No one’s talking about Brexit but according to the British Social Attitudes Survey published this week, the popularity of Brexit has plummeted with 71% believing the economy was worse off as a result of leaving the EU, up from 51% in 2019 and less than a quarter of respondents said they thought Britain should be outside the EU, down from 36% in 2019. The same survey also shows that public trust in politics and politicians is at its lowest for half a century. As Professor Sir John Curtice said: “ O próximo governo não simplesmente enfrentará o desafio de reviver a economia gaguejante da Grã -Bretanha e seus serviços públicos em dificuldades. Também precisará abordar as preocupações de um público do governo.” Embora as políticas e a direção de um novo governo possam ajudar, o professor Curtice diz: “... é provável que exija muito mais do que isso - em particular, um estilo e uma maneira de governar que persuadam as pessoas de que o governo tem seus interesses no coração.” | No entanto, um governo fundado em honestidade, responsabilidade e transparência ajudarão bastante a restaurar a confiança, curando parte da divisão e rancor criado por uma imprensa partidária e, se houver uma oposição saudável de uma série de partes, consideração no lugar da estréia, poderíamos estar em um caminho melhor.
We know that nothing much will change if the predictions are right and Keir Starmer is Prime Minister in three weeks because sorting out the mess of the last 14 years will take a long time. However, a government founded in honesty, accountability and transparency will go a long way to restoring trust, healing some of the division and rancour whipped up by a partisan press and if there is a healthy opposition from a range of parties, thoughtfulness in place of stridency we could be on a better path.
