Labour must improve its offer to the people - or hard right populists will seize the agenda

When the Tories lose the next election they will lurch further to the right - it's inevitable. They'll be desperate so Farage will be the obvious candidate to lead them. Labour will only have one 5 year term to turn things around if they don't the Tories could well get back in, that is what they are hoping for. So Starmer has to be brave and bold or we'll all be back to square one in '29.

More immediate concern is what Sunak will do to re attract the far right drifting to reform (how do they elect their leader again? Oh yeah, they don't). On a lighter note, funny how Farage (and Mogg and many Tories) favourite ex president is now banned from running businesses in New York cos fraud and no bank loans to bail him out. Only plan for the next election is destruction of the Tory party via the polls. If the aforementioned fraudster and sex pest in the US gets to power, the Cons will hand him the keys to the UK.

Seeing both Labour and Conservatives have failed Wales for decades. And because confidence is at a low ebb, which could leave the door open to extremists from the far-right, not only means a threat to minorities here but also Welsh & British democracy itself. There can be no better example of 1930s Germany where Hitler rose to prominence with the Nazi party, who blamed minorities for all their economic woes leading unspeakable consequences. It can & will happen again. History tends to repeat itself. Just look east, the Middle East, where tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians have been slaughtered by those whose families suffered and died in Nazi death camps of Europe. Sobering thought that the once abused are now the abuser. Today we see America lurching further into political chaos where it's a real possibility that far-right egotist Donald Trump could be the first American president to be reelected as a convicted criminal because Joe Biden, although under his tenure America's economy has bucked the trend, due to his faltering health, confused state, is seen as a liability by their electorate. The state of their politics is depressing. And seeing Britain, like America, is a two party state, there's only two choices available here under the first-past-the-post voting system. Labour or Tory. Sadly both parties have shaped Wales in their image , which has meant a once resource-rich country that was equivalent to a Saudi oil rich state now is a economic desert of no hope, apathy, and what ifs. British rule is for the fool. I am no fool. Nor do I vote Labour or Tory. The likes of the British National Party, Britain First, Ukip, Brexit party and now Reform UK, all prey on those apathetic communities left to rot by Westminster. And sadly due to block cuts means council finances are squeezed by the Welsh Government due to Tory Whitehall playing political games with their elected rivals in Cardiff bay, means those populists will offer streets paved with gold and those politically naive will believe those offering a land of milk & honey with no consequences. You fine those with right-wing tendencies think simplic because they are simple. Simple minded. A warning to the curious of the damage and influence cause to Wales if ever the extreme right -wing is ever allowed the reigns of power is Brexit itself, although many might say we've already experienced 14 years of it already. Wales has lost hundreds of millions in once European funding thanks to the threat Ukip & Brexit party made to the Conservatives which meant David Cameron pandering to the English extreme-right in the ERG (European Research Group) who since the days of the Common Market wanted to leave the European Union so gave them red meat Brexit referendum. Thanks to Brexit our economy is faltering. Companies are cutting jobs throughout Wales faster than they are created because we are deemed less competitive due to tariffs & red tape. All this because those bloody narrowminded right-wing little England buffoons in the Conservative party, ERG, Ukip, Brexit party had delusions of grandeur, who longed for the bad old days of empire where half the globe was pink and ripe for rich picking. Finally, I'd advise all to think this way. Don't be fooled. If it's too good to be true they are lying to secure your vote. It's certain now the Tories will suffer their greatest election defeat later this year. It's in no doubt UK Labour will win the next election by default. Keir Starmer offers nothing to Wales other than the continuation of Tory policies. Their anti-Welsh devolution stance. Favouring the English South East, recapturing their red wall seats in the "North", not to mention, holding back the tide of Scottish Nationalism by making sure Scots never have the opportunity to hold let alone win another referendum on independence. Wales? What about it says Labour. We'll remain the poor backwater favoured by unionists. It's worked up till now. They, UK Labour, have a motto about Wales, devolution & Welsh democracy. " If it's broken, why fix it?!"

We can only hope that Starmer is treading a fine line to get the win then sets about a radical agenda of getting the peoples’ money back from the spivs who have stolen it, and continue to steal it, from our accounts. I don’t need to mention names but guided by the Tories’ making up the rules as they go along, Starmer could easily instigate investigations into corrupt bodies and seize their funds pending return to the public purse and our pockets so that we can start living again.

All of this is symptomatic of the dysfunctional, degenerate UK State. It is an artiface, a construct to perpetuate the ongoing economic (and to that end, the political) hegemony of Britain's capitalist class. The Faragists represent an insurgent faction of that class. We are all, the rest of us, fodder in their battle to shape the established order to their liking. Like all fascists, they are raising false flag after false flag, creating and mining grievance politics at every opportunity. Into this mix comes Starmer's Labour. Their USP is to govern like competent conservatives. They offer no reforms whatsoever. IMHO they seek power for power's sake - an aim that is dangerous on multiple fronts. I don't expect anything other than window dressing from them. All the while, the fascist fringe will be ratcheting up the grievance-o-meter as a prelude to an ultra-libertarian far right post-Labour future. The probability of this future coming to pass is uncomfortably high. What of Wales in all of this? Considering the anglo-supremacist, singular anglo-British nationalist, imperialist, libertarian and cultural chauvinism of these antagonists, our future looks very grim indeed! Our Statehood is an imperative if Wales is to survive in any form other than as a mere region of a Britain which is a synonym for an imperialist Greater England. If Britain is to have a progressive, pluralist future then the UK must be replaced by the nations upon which foundation we can build new partnerships.

what labour need to be forced to do to keep the far right out of government is to commit to electoral reform as a matter of extreme urgency. are we supposed to just accept that the only way to keep a farage led, extremist mutation of the tory party out of government is to put our trust in labour managing to remain in power? or that they'll even last a full term to start with, for that matter? b****cks to that, frankly. If the nutters get in, it'll be because their knackered, undemocratic, unfit for purpose first-past-the-post system can allow a party to form a majority with a small percentage of the popular vote. if labour commit to electoral reform, and manage to implement it before they implode over Palestine and bring about an early election, it will be nigh on impossible for the far right to form a government even with the largest percentage of vote share.

Under his leadership, Starmer offers absolutely nothing, and Labour will win for one reason: they are not the Tories. But that will change when in power. The poorly paid public sector workers are not suddenly going to withdraw their pay claims, nor are the many other problems going to go away. Starmer's minor tinkering will soon get found out and fail.

The danger with populism is that it lacks any sense of rationality. The right wing Tories have a long term strategy which could easily work in their favour. They know full well that they are going to lose the election, so they will let Sunak take the blame for it, under the pretense "we would have won if we had stuck with Boris, or Liz Truss", giving them the excuse to lurch further to the right. They also know that the economy is not going to get any better until we reaffirm closer ties to the EU. But that won't stop them from blaming Keir Starmer for the state of the economy. FPTP allows governments to win, not necessarily because they are popular but because they are fed up of the alternative. We are seeing this in the USA, most Americans despise Donald Trump and were glad to see the back of him in 2020. However he may get back in because voters are fed up of Biden. Unlike the US however we do have third parties capable of winning seats. In Wales I will vote Plaid, but I do hope that the Lib Dems have a resurgence and make gains at the expense of the Tories. They are capable of winning seats in rural England where Labour cannot win, and can capture votes off moderate Tory voters would who never vote Labour. This might just keep the Tories on their toes.

I understand why Nigel Farage is not to everyone's liking, but to accuse him of being far right is a kick in the teeth to the real victims of fascism. Farage is right wing, he's not endorsing murdering people based on their ethnicity. Nation Cymru and other media outlets cheapen what it means to be extreme right when you use the term so often and with no meaning or reason.