Those who follow my forays into the blogosphere may well pick up that I am political nerd, unaligned with any political party (and now too old in the tooth to be so), who endeavours to relate my Christian world view and theological insights when considering politics today and actors on the world political stage (who in the main I find depressing). As for how I got to taking the position I adopt today, check out “My political journey and perspectives” blog.

I will begin by considering the July 2024 General Election when Labour came to power in a landslide. This was in spite of them receiving less votes than in the December 2019 General Election than they did this time round. The Conservatives won with their “Get Brexit Done” appeal, and given more people had voted to leave the EU than to stay and yet the process of leaving had been held up by a powerful minority that wanted to the UK to remain in the EU. The UK did eventually leave the EU under the Conservatives, although many Brexiteers still feel Brexit was far from done.  

What made things worse was soon after the world was hit by Covid and this considerably affected the political landscape (and even though the Conservatives addressed the issues on the whole poorly, Labour with its harsher lockdown advocacy would have been worse). There was a widespread dissatisfaction with the Conservative government under a succession of Prime Ministers (Johnson, Truss and Sunak), and a feeling the gaps between rich and poor had widened, Britain had lost its way in the world and a plethora of unresolved social justice issues, which Labour promised to fix.

What followed is well known and since July we have been living under a Labour government. What I want to share are my views on how the country is doing politically and where our hopes ought to lie. The first thing to say is that the country were not particularly enthused by Starmer and his government, who I now view (every time members open their mouth) as worse than Sunak and his government and who are more likely to usher in the globalist cabal takeover the country than that if the Conservatives were in power.

As for the alternatives, there were the LibDems, Greens and Reform but, given the first past the post system of electing governments in the UK, none were able to make sufficient inroads in terms of political power in a system that favours the two main parties. In a nutshell, I cannot support LibDems due to its wokeism, Greens for making the Climate Emergency hoax their priority and Reform for moral cowardice in not standing by the deplorables who see a lot of what is going wrong in our country and who are looking for those who will stand up for their concerns but with limited success.   

One of the great shames from my perspective was that in the two church led hustings that were held in my city of Southend covering the East and West constituencies respectively few of the important questions were asked of the candidates and one consequence was that God who imposes and disposes rulers gave us a government even more likely than the one before to lead the UK into an Orwellian dystopia. What really turned it for me was the August Southport riots when Starmer identified the real problem as the “far right, racists” and showed little understanding of the concerns of many decent people. The nonsensical statements of Starmer’s inner circle, the attacks through taxation on small farmers, the prolonging of the war in Ukraine, an ambivalent approach to Israel and Gaza, a hostile attitude to Donald Trump but not to Trump’s detractors, a likely attack on free speech in prospect, a non pro life stance, taking away the winter fuel allowance for OAPs, and the enthusiastic support of the globalist agenda only adds fuel to the fire.

As for the Conservatives, now under the leadership of someone who ticks some of the desired diversity boxes, Kemi Badenoch, showing little evidence of standing up for or understanding many of the issues I care and write about, they lead the opposition. It makes the picture I am trying to paint look more bleak with there being little effective opposition other than a populist rising up from among the non politicians who are beginning to quickly wake up to how bad the Starmer regime, with its huge majority in Parliament, really is.

We are where we are and always there is a silver lining if only to wake people up to where we really are as a country and the political ineptitude in all parties. While politics matter and I continue to support those who want to be politically involved for the right reasons, my hope is not in politics or politicians. For me, as a gospel preaching, community activist, watchman on the wall, it is the prospect of bringing the country back to God, where it needs to be, that drives me. Whether or not the UK returns to Him is only down to me insofar I need to be God’s servant first, but whatever the future I can still rejoice that God is sovereign and His Son, Jesus, is coming back to Planet Earth and that He will rule righteously: