Flip-Feckin'-Flop...

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How much more of this weak, self-interested and frankly pathetic government can we put up with? Considering one of their favourite jibes at the opposition is that 'they don't have a plan...™', it's glaringly self-evident that they don't have a shred of a clue, let alone any 'plan'. The Tories' default position is, and always has been reactive. Wait for shit to happen, flap about a bit, legislate some unnecessary crap, and recant and reverse at the next wind of change: often within days, recently. Stuff they touted as 'policy', which shows itself to be, surprise, surprise, unworkable nonsense, becomes, magically, the fault of everyone else but them, and they U-turn as fast as a YouTuber demonstrating J-turns in a modded hot hatch. We're now expected to stomach reversals on renter's rights, school meals, inheritance tax and the most politically charged bit of the already woeful HS2 debacle, which would leave the two biggest UK cities connected by the most expensive bit of railway track ever, and that's it!

To what end? A few minutes taken off an already short journey time - the two bergs are only a hundred and twenty miles apart, for God's sake. And don't get me started on the climate change roll-back, the most heinous of all of their politically-expedient U-turns. And guess who the biggest cheerleader fan-böi for our billionaire PM is on that? None other than Donald Trump. Time to leave, Rish. Thirteen years is enough. Let natural selection take its course. Your party will, as usual, leave this archipelago in a much worse and a much poorer state than you found it. But history - check it out, people - shows this to be their perennial modus operandi. The conundrum is how this bunch of zombie anachronista continually rises back up to do exactly the same thing, again and again, and again.

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