Johnsonism is ending. What is the next stage of British politics?
By: Wills Word - A Williams
Tags: Westminster, Boris Johnson, UK Politics, Opinion, Politics

Johnsonism is ending. What is the next stage of British politics?

As the year draws to close and ready to toast and ring out the year fatigued of the one just been eagerness for one Christmas and new year merrier and better the last ghosts of last Christmas come to haunt the government leading the country red faced with blood boiling the one and true benefit car crash corruption and hypocrisy as we face a cold winter and one concerned about the costs of heating and eating. As last Christmas many lonely and isolated as we were fronted with a new wave of the coronavirus pandemic which this year now we see ourselves at point of facing return of draconian measures which have for almost two years been apart of our lives and seem indefinite as new variant of the virus spreads through the population now facing such plan B or plan C what ever it means, it means sacrificing our liberties yet again inline with public health advice. There’s more angered and raging with fury over the governments plans to introduce more stricter plans, a growing trends and patterns sees many unwilling to comply with new restrictions than with previous waves of the virus. Autonomy and trust is an issue across both polarised ends of the spectrum of the politics surrounding pandemic those who are critical and are against vaccine mandates, lockdowns and vaccine passports reasons linked to power and control the basis of debate. The other end of the spectrum is those who want more powers to be exerted over us in fear of more fatalities and new variants of the virus that continues to wreak havoc.

The last Christmas when we had no conversation of pandemic and fearing that we’d need to cancel Christmas parties and events or expected to be lockdown is two years ago. It’s been two years since the major conversation in our political lives as a nation was around our nations departure of the European Union and the snap general election that year called by Prime Minster Johnson at his peak to ‘Get Brexit Done’ a simpler times where he won his party a landslide majority that shook the socialist movement of Jeremy Corbyn and the global centrism that left europhiles aghast at the state of democracy with an campaign built on lies and endless hostility and social division that turned political conversation sour. Now two years on his honeymoon period has Boris Johnson tumbling down the landslide he built as his peak has stooped to abrupt end with his bumbling rambling people crowd pleasure has exposed a populist character self serving of greed without principle one day he’d get trapped with what he is a politician living out his dreams to be prime minister not his dreams for Britain. Boris now lying and proven to mistrust and mislead parliament and its people and to caused threat to the nations people showed the nationalist is no patriot. How cruel Margaret Thatcher was she had principle and was able to say with conviction that what she did was for the people that allowed her a over a decade in power a prime minister who was eyeing up a decade in power has now slipped off being caught out.

Being caught out with the Christmas parties while many were lonely isolating in lockdown to protect granny from the virus as NHS workers faced war-like conditions in battle with saving lives that the virus took on almost ten occasions White hall and Downing Street ministers, advisors and civil servants we popping the wine, sniggering in means that broke the law they forced the people of Britain to comply with. How can we trust them again when they are laughing at us faces of glee and joy as many suffered. His days numbered.

A challenge to the leadership from backbenchers and cabinet ministers may end up starting readying up their team to get them elected as leader and Prime Minister as focus on moving the party forward from a sinking ship the libertarian wing of the restriction skeptic wing of the party are to give the prime minister and health minister the biggest rebellions of their tenure in office could go into the figures of 60 with Starmer’s labour willing to support new restrictions but handing their public sick note of his ill and failing leadership of the nation. The nation may be thirsty for a new election and to elect a new government in Trumpian language even with a leader assigned by figures of socialism Britain seeing him as Trumpian calls to ‘drain the swamp’ of government and parliament coming from some shock jock political commentators like Maajid Nawas the radical LBC presenter who was a panelist on Sky News’ ‘The Pledge’ seem like words would be featured by parties like Reclaim and Reform UK and media outlets like GB News and Talk Radio the voters since our departure to the European Union the Conservative party has cozied up to and tried to smooth over. Polling shows some potentially maybe tempted to move back to their political home of labour. The Conservative party are now left in crisis point of an identity crisis. Often occurs in a new age of politics, but so often. All parties recently been in point of political crisis and that systemic fatigue of corruption and partisan failures all political parties have needed to revise themselves and are within an image and branding revision of their politics and public perception. An election now would be difficult to fight yet the people are ready.

Opposition parties must be ready in waiting but mustn’t be trapped by the ideas of Progressive alliances but be willing to form a coalition after an election has occurred it may be the only way but the next government a new must rise like a phoenix from the ashes. Manifestos and polices must be written and drafted. We cant expected to live under any further lurches to fascist-authoritarianism that threatens democratic and liberal freedoms that is ability to protest, speak freely, move freely have autonomy over our personal lives on matters of gender that the conservatives are threatening. With the prime minister assuming he can defy odds and fight the next election the moment hasn’t been better for a new Britain that is losing its feet, we don’t need to get back on track but build a new track. We deserve better. We deserve honesty, transparency, humility, trust, power, fairness and government that works, we know this doesn’t and just replacing it wont be enough to resolve the crisis of morals and ethics in politics.

We however now end up with politicians that forget that all its power is political and if those who are in power instruct to do as we say not as we do a ‘one rule for us, another for them.’ Demanding better must be building a state where recognition that all is political and that theres no shame in hiding it. Michael Gove once said ‘we are fed up of being lectured by experts’ are we? Somewhat yes, but is that really the case but are we fed up of being undermined of our intelligence and ability to b clearly been presented with the science, the hardcore facts. For some the pandemic may have left us numb and unable to process the facts and data two years on in, but surely we can be brought back into the conversation. I do feel the opposition to the government from labour undermines the publics ability to think critically and what is key in a democracy. How are we to buy Starmer’s argument of siding with the government for ‘public interest’ to not exploit the coronavirus pandemic for political gain. It’s only the public knows what is in public interest and the ability to try to speak for the public has failed when those in power have failed to seen that this is in public interest. How are we to believe that in a representative democracy that theres such a thing of politicians acting in political interest. Sense of apathy and distrust is growing its unsure whether the opposition will be able to pull the public with them even with a sharp bounce in the polls. How are we to think that we are to be in an indefinite loop of social experiment. We are frankly tired of experimentation with politics leading over the science with vaccination passports we aren’t able to believe that they are the sweeping boost for new wave of vaccine uptake such propositions aren’t medical trials and feel whimsical. If we don’t do anything to stop such whimsical abuses of powers that sees us as lab rats in chemical testing we cease to be a democracy.

This isn’t coming from a position of scepticism of the pandemic we should follow the science of using hand sanitising, wearing face coverings and get vaccinations as to be an open functioning society within the pandemic we still must follow the science and find truth in the reality. Coming from a liberal perspective is only means of how allow civil society, public health and economies afloat the energy and resources of wealthy nations like Britain and America is to help less economically developed nations to access a first dose of the vaccine universally for all citizens worldwide. Everyone must be able to access the vaccine greed of the rich and wealthy nations are to blame for a divide that has lead to the ability of new variants of the coronavirus to be produced. We are you’re doing contracts and resources that can greater aid the rest of the world but vaccine politics has lead to vaccine nationalism.

The prime minister before his tenure to prime minister was more globalist liberal libertarian figure that he led London on the world stage hosting the London Olympics and flying the flag and times as newspaper writer and editor against such photo identifications and supporting liberal causes. Now sees his legacy as a nationalist and an illiberal political chameleon that lacks an ounce of principle that has his career developed he became a desperate, power hungry, bumbling buffoon an empty vessel of power he’s become a weak but very much so dictator that leads weak and feeble successors in his making veering down the routes of political militancy on the so called ‘culture wars’ which seems closer than ever before to Fascism of and ideology of Enoch Powell seeing Britain as the greatest nation but since our departure from the European Union and our withdrawal from Afghanistan has seen our influence shrink on the world stage. We are only great in all but name.

A government trying to make efforts to criminalise and sanction protests and any political activism on the street, ignoring and by passing when broken laws and parliamentary protocol, blocking and suppressing people from voting, over ruling decisions courts have ruled on. These are real red flags that United Nations flew a red flag on our poor health of human rights.

Now is the time for something new something radical a new way. We have a by-election being held this week where the Liberal Democrats stand a chance the Liberal Democrats like all parties need to address matters of transphobia within ranks of power as it doesn’t match the parties values. But liberalism is the at forward we need a new exciting shock to the system to create a new. If the Liberal Democrats win that seat game maybe over for Boris Johnson, his greed and lies but the nationalism and authoritarianism might not be with a no confidence motion Priti Patel, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak are the likely names that will follow Johnson to forge a rebuilding of the brand of Conservative party to hold on to power. It’s liberalism and liberal parties who must paint a yellow brick row to power. We cant rely on ‘Progressive alliances’ or the Labour Party even if the maybe the lead party if in coalition in the next parliament forming the new government in few years time. Johnsonism should form a reactionary new age of liberalism and new liberal thinking and be the nail in the coffin of the Cleggist centrism that damaged the reputation of Liberal Democrats for a decade. To build forward we need science, political reform, democracy, economic reform, individual rights taken seriously. It’s time that 2022 that parties in opposition write a path to victory and to chuck conservatives out of power to have a democratic government that is open to new ideals that fix the systemic fatigue of corruption. Parties like the Liberal Democrats need focus on a new political system and it would be good to have true progressivism that brings smaller parties like Breakthrough and The Green Party to parliament.

Writen and Published on 12th December 2021 following. revisions to this blog may occur on other articles as re-edit such articles for clarity, detail and accuracy.