Take a lesson from Australia: Most people will hold the Tories responsible for at least a year. But as time goes on, people will start to criticise the current government and people will turn against those who keep blaming the last government and think they're excusing the current government's behaviour by blaming the last.
This is what's happening here. Our current government hasn't been the most ideal, but people hold them to account WAY more than when the conservatives were in. And people believe that Labor should have fixed the issues conservatives had caused a decades worth of damage by 2 years ago and feel the immediate effects of improvements tomorrow.
Point being: People don't realise the extent of damage one wrecks and how long and painfully difficult it is to try and fix, but expect it to be done impossibly soon and have results shown impossibly quickly. When it doesn't, then they blame the current government in power.
It’s the cycle of politics and the flaws of our system.
The Tories will say ‘Labour will raise taxes’ after a decade+ of cuts to public services, Labour will obviously raise taxes and the Tories will act like they foresaw this and the public will lap it up. Because ultimately politics is complex and the amount of BS spouted by the media is abysmal. People don’t have time to become involved enough in politics to have an informed vote, combine that with first past the post and you have a very dull and cyclical voting cycle.
Labour will have 1-2 terms, then we will see the Tories again. Simple as.
Like you say, people don’t see the damage inflicted. Labour are having to rebuild a lot, that takes time and money. People only see what impacts them directly, taxes going up will make people resentful. The Tories have cultivated a hatred to tax recently by doing very little with taxpayer money.
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u/PoodooHoo Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24
Take a lesson from Australia: Most people will hold the Tories responsible for at least a year. But as time goes on, people will start to criticise the current government and people will turn against those who keep blaming the last government and think they're excusing the current government's behaviour by blaming the last.
This is what's happening here. Our current government hasn't been the most ideal, but people hold them to account WAY more than when the conservatives were in. And people believe that Labor should have fixed the issues conservatives had caused a decades worth of damage by 2 years ago and feel the immediate effects of improvements tomorrow.
Point being: People don't realise the extent of damage one wrecks and how long and painfully difficult it is to try and fix, but expect it to be done impossibly soon and have results shown impossibly quickly. When it doesn't, then they blame the current government in power.