>The Tories won the 2019 General elections and a huge majority. A big part of that success has been "getting Brexit done".
That's kind of surface level. A large contingent of people were told that Brexit would be amazing and were told that Britain needed a good, strong, competent leader like Boris who would "get it done".
The reality is that the media barons (Rothermere, Murdoch, etc.) that wanted more than anything for the socialist NOT to win, made sure Boris was painted as the strong and competent leader who could deliver a brighter future even though privately they knew he was an idiot.
The UK public bought it.
The media only started saying what they really thought about Boris after the socialist wing of the opposition was throughly routed. The sheep have now "woken up" to Boris being a dangerous idiot even though it is as obvious now if you paid attention as it was when he demonstrated his leadership credentials by hiding from journalists in a fridge.
The media barons now desperately want a Labour government, of course, now that an unthreatening corporate stooge has consolidated power over the party. Starmer will be painted as the strong, sensible leader this country needs to avoid chaos.
Again, the current situation has much more to do with Covid and decades of bad energy policy than with Brexit. People keep mentioning Brexit but are shy on specifics.
Actually, I think many people on the right/Conservative/Brexit side are unhappy for the opposite reason: things have gone on unchanged instead of implementing change that Brexit allows: Immigration, tax, etc.
Yeah, it's little to do with Brexit. This current crisis is mostly about Ukraine. America wants a war in Ukraine and the UK are, as always, its ride or die puppets. The whole of Europe is now reeling from energy insecurity as a result of this proxy war.
A different energy policy over the last decade could have made the crisis slightly better or worse but it was in essence as unavoidable in the UK as it is in France or Germany. France, with its aging fleet of expensive nuclear reactors may even suffer more.
The only way to absolutely avoid the energy crisis would have been to avoid getting embroiled in the proxy war.
The UK produces half its gas and has the potential to be more or less self-sufficient. At the same time they did not invest in other sources, especially nuclear.
It's not that the crisis could have been made slightly better: The UK could have been pretty much insulated from the energy crisis. Yes, hindsight is great but the UK's energy policy has really been awful for decades and disaster was coming one way or another (for instance because of EVs taking the grid down...)
The UK produces less than half in the north sea and can produce maybe a bit more than half.
They are now trying to use the current crisis to push for fracking because the north sea cant produce nearly enough.
The deep unpopularity of this move even in the context of an energy crisis is partly why this government lasted a few months.
If this is what you mean by "potential that should be exercised" then you're basically politically on the same page as the shortest reigning PM in history.
The majority of the UK's electricity production uses gas. Had they invested in nuclear (and wind) instead they could be self-sufficient in gas.
But on the other hand the ban on fracking in Europe is ideological and does not make sense, either. Of course impact should be assessed on a case by case basis but domestic production trumps imports for such a strategic commodity. In the meantime the US are now the largest gas exporter.
Calling it a proxy war is buying into Russian propaganda. Europe would have likely reacted largely the same way without US involvement. The war is between Ukraine and Russia, period.
That's kind of surface level. A large contingent of people were told that Brexit would be amazing and were told that Britain needed a good, strong, competent leader like Boris who would "get it done".
The reality is that the media barons (Rothermere, Murdoch, etc.) that wanted more than anything for the socialist NOT to win, made sure Boris was painted as the strong and competent leader who could deliver a brighter future even though privately they knew he was an idiot.
The UK public bought it.
The media only started saying what they really thought about Boris after the socialist wing of the opposition was throughly routed. The sheep have now "woken up" to Boris being a dangerous idiot even though it is as obvious now if you paid attention as it was when he demonstrated his leadership credentials by hiding from journalists in a fridge.
The media barons now desperately want a Labour government, of course, now that an unthreatening corporate stooge has consolidated power over the party. Starmer will be painted as the strong, sensible leader this country needs to avoid chaos.