I am not associated with any political party, in fact I think the three leading parties, Conservative, Liberal or labour are all quite poor there is not one outstanding leader or prospective leader amongst them.

I think that we in this country are now paying the price of Thatcher's privatisation policies with energy / water / communication and transport companies making great profits whilst increasing the cost to the consumer, which is pushing up inflation and leading to some families facing a stark choice of their living standards being reduced.

During the current conservative leadership debate's the leading contender Truss announced one of her policies would be to lower public sector pay in the north, which she had to retract almost immediately, but I would suggest that if she is elected this would re-surface, so much for the "one nation conservative party" and levelling up.

While visiting Russia on holiday in 2016, we had a tour guide in St Petersburg who said he would give us a brief political history of Russia.
1) Before 1918, they were ruled by the Romanovs and every citizen knew their place.
2) In 1918 they started to be ruled by the communists and again very citizen knew their place.
3) Then along came Boris Yeltzin and he liberalised the country and all the citizen were unsure where there place was.
4) At that time (2016) Putin had come to power and the tour guide said they were now ruled by the criminals and all citizens feared for
their place..

What could one say about our political history, even though we have a government who appear to bungling along we still do not live in fear for our lives, which I suppose is one good thing.