Dear LibDems & Greens - Whilst the UK is all Trussed Up

Dear LibDems and Greens,

The UK has become a laughing stock. Our government has gone rogue and has trampled over the parliamentary process such that is now entirely dysfunctional. The list of blunders continues to grow. The absurdly inappropriate, multi-billion pound, state-of-the-art, HMS Prince of Wales languishes lame-duck in Portsmouth is a fitting metaphor for a country holed below the waterline by successive inept governments that stretch back even before 2016. We are a country going nowhere.

But, it was 2016 that changed the course of UK politics when the established right/left division in politics was rotated through ninety degrees to become a leave/remain division.

The party now in charge, a party that no longer deserves to bear the name “The Conservatives”  caught the Brexit bus solely as a matter of self-interest. Sadly, Labour under Corbyn failed to acknowledge how the political world had changed, and on Brexit, fatally, selected Neutral, and accordingly motored nowhere.

Labour will most likely win the next general election. Not through any great visionary political agenda but simply because the current government, day by day becomes more ridiculous. Truss’ appointment was secured by only those party members that could stomach remaining after the shameful occupancy of Johnson. Those that had not torn up their membership cards were the more extreme, or as I refer to them, the swivel eye loonies (SEL).

Conservative MPs as we speak acknowledge this and are scouting around how to put in place a Truss replacement without leaving the final choice to the SELs.

If nothing changes, Labour will take the reigns at the next GE. I think most of the UK now acknowledges this.

And should you be a betting person, I would place a £250 bet with you that if that happens Labour will be in power for but a single term. The systemic damage done to the UK by Brexit and the Tories in no way can be tackled in a single term of government… by any party. And so, after another four years, Tories will be standing around offering tax cuts and hollow promises to a public that is utterly desperate.

What’s needed is a new party that acknowledges this; a new party with the courage and conviction capable of facing the public with manifesto and message stating that things are going to get worse before they get better.

I suggest that your Party and the Greens are currently doomed to remain also runs, gaining seats here and there, losing them now and again. I believe this despite the fact that I believe that both parties hold in their grasp the means to make things better.

So If you are able to find time in what I am sure is a busy schedule, please answer this:

Why at a time when both major parties are in crisis, are the Greens and LibDems not forming a new Green Democrats party?

What LibDem member has serious objections to anything in the Green agenda?

What Green member has serious objections to anything in the LibDem agenda?

The Green Democrats could:

• Be a new centre-left 21st-century savvy party.
• Start with fresh green and democratic agenda.
• Make PR a number one manifesto promise and so end the bipartisan circus we now have.
• Be actively pro-EU and so on the defining political issue since 2016 position themselves as actively in opposition to the current government.

Additionally:

• Together as a new single party you would be instantly larger (do you think banding together would lose you more followers than you would stand to gain?).
• The LibDems would finally shed their Yellow Tory legacy and education U-turn stigma.
• The Greens too could slough off their also ran credentials.
• The issue of EU solidarity in light of Putin's invasion of Ukraine and the rise of what Guy Verhofstadt calls the "age of empires" is potentially even more significant than domestic affairs (see https://tinyurl.com/2b4bzgrf)

If you have five minutes, then explain why now is not the exact time to be offering the country a real alternative? Or is it that tribal politics must Trump all?