geo4chg
TS Member
Oh, so the Three Day Week was a Conservative policy? Interesting… maybe it’s the Winter of Discontent that my Nan remembers?
Interestingly, the Tories apparently had a £3bn economic crisis of their own under John Major in the form of Black Wednesday. I’m not entirely sure what made it such a big crisis, but it had something to do with the pound’s exchange rate being poor.
Another interesting thing to note is that I’ve heard some argue that we’re currently in a second Winter of Discontent, what with the cost of living crisis and the ever-present COVID situation. I don’t see this wiping out the Conservatives like the 1978/79 one did Labour, though… it’s not nearly as severe as the late 1970s situation was, from what I can gather, and I also think that Boris Johnson and the Conservatives are too popular to fall to something like this; the events in Downing Street and the cost of living crisis seem to have had a very negligible impact on his overall popularity so far.
I also think that Boris’ government could have done enough good by 2024 to make people forget about the events of 2021/22, what with his ambitious levelling up agenda and all. As much as I will almost definitely be voting for Keir Starmer’s Labour Party at the next election (unless something drastic happens to change my mind), I think Boris does seem to be landing some blows against Starmer that are making him very popular and far more worthy of leadership than Starmer in the public’s eyes; he always gets far louder cheers in the Commons than Starmer does.
Boris Johnson gets bigger cheers in the Commons because he has more MPs to cheer him.
On the contrary, Boris Johnson's popularity has plummeted in the opinion polls, the Partygate scandal is destroying his electability. There is no way the Conservatives go into the next election with Boris Johnson as leader, they may get a hung parliament due to Starmer's lack of charisma (and apparent lack of policy) but a majority is totally out of the question with Boris still leader. 2 years is a long time in politics but the fall out from these parties is such that people will still remember when the next election comes around, and this time he won't have Brexit to carry him.