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Ah, us Brits, we’re always moaning. It used to be about the weather, the queues and the infamous cooking and dentistry. This time, we've gone and signed a petition with over three million signatures, crying out for an early General Election.
Perhaps more importantly, Elon Musk is using X to call out the UK Government and demanding a revote. But let me tell you,why this isn't happening, and why the fact that it isn’t happening is a blessing in disguise.
First off, let's dive into the chaos that has been UK governance in recent years. The current Labour lot in Westminster are as useful as the proverbial chocolate teapot.
Take the Winter Fuel Allowance, for instance - they've been playing a cruel game with it, leaving pensioners out in the cold; many thousands will die this year, due to the withdrawal of this benefit as the poorest pensioners, the most vulnerable in society, have to choose, as they say, between heating and eating.
And don't get me started on the inheritance tax on family farms. It's like they're trying to dismantle the very fabric of rural Britain, of deep Britain one beloved farm at a time.
Then there's their new budget, a document so full of holes it could double as a sieve. It's clear the current administration's economic policies are about as successful as a vegan at a barbecue. While pretending to protect workers, all they have done is to level their aim at businesses, particularly small businesses who, of course now face increased costs for having the temerity of employing people, a mistake many are realising that they cannot afford to repeat.
After 14 years in opposition you'd think this would be Labour’s golden moment to swoop in and save the day, right? Wrong.
Due to this catalogue of deliberate and targeted policy malice, they've been collapsing in the polls like a mistimed soufflé. Since July, Labour's been losing ground in local council by-elections, proving they're not the saviours they think they are. It's like watching a slow-motion train wreck, but with more tea and less excitement.
The internal workings of the Labour Party are a circus, and not the entertaining kind. Their leadership election rules are more convoluted than plot twists in a Mexican soap. BY its very nature any new leader would be more about party politics than national leadership.
Meanwhile, both in power and out, the Conservative Party has changed leaders - and therefore Prime Ministers - like a sophomore on Tinder, but with an inability to ever, really, swipe right. Boris Johnson to Liz Truss to Rishi Sunak, each transition smoother than the last under the UK's unwritten constitution.
You see, in Britain, we don't elect a Prime Minister directly; we elect a government. The PM is just the one who can command a majority in the House of Commons. So, if a party decides to switch horses mid-stream, they can, and there's no need for an election.
This system might sound bizarre to those not steeped in it since childhood, but it's part of what makes British politics so, shall we say, 'dynamic'. The last thing we need now is to call an early election, only to end up with more of the same or worse - a Labour government that can't even manage a local by-election, let alone the country, or a painfully vapid Conservative party still in thrall to the empty centrist nostrums of the 2000’s.
So, while the petition for an early election might be three million strong, and Elon Musk has the ability to kick a series of ants nests, it's not about to change the political landscape. Much as I despise his policies and the damage he is doing to my country, Sir Keir Starmer is my Prime Minister, because the people of my country voted for him.
What is more, the sheer damage he is doing to the country is nothing to what it is doing to his own party. It is being reflected in the polls, and in actual votes.
As we stand today, with the Conservatives in moral and spiritual disarray, unused to opposition and incapable of handling their new reality, and the Reform UK Party of Nigel Farage not quite ready, it is not the time. To have a General Election now may well destroy the unnaturally large Labour majority but it would lead to stasis.
For what it is worth the UK system, for all its quirks, allows for mid-term corrections without the circus of an early election. We're better off letting the current government stew in its own juice a bit longer, knowing that it will not learn from its staggeringly long list of failures.
As for Conservatives they need to do more than just moan about needing an election; they need a plan, another new leader, and perhaps a miracle.
And Reform UK is growing in numbers, ability and strength.
So, sit back, enjoy the show, and remember, sometimes the best thing about politics is watching the other sides fail spectacularly.
