There are charlatans and scoundrels in all areas of society, that includes political parties.

I doubt that any of our politicians are able to successfully address all the country’s problems at the moment. The pandemic was a massive blow to the economy, regardless of who was in power. How about blaming Putin for the energy (and general cost of living) crisis, after all, that war is the main driver of these problems; it would be the same regardless of who was in power. All our services and resources are grossly overloaded because there are too many people in the country for those resources to be adequately spread across society. If Labour was in power, arguably this problem would be even worse. The first duty of our government is to protect us, that also means, to my mind, the structure of our society but I don’t think that any of our politicians are prepared to face up to that particular responsibility.