Clayton's Political View

I haven't been feeling well lately so I haven't been out of the house much, last week I treated myself to a McDonalds via Ubereats they have finally come to my village! When I received my order I asked the driver how his day was going and he replied that he was stressed trying to catch up with himself as he had not been furloughed or hadn't been supported during the lockdown. Hearing this made me very angry and depressed as to how to this Gentleman had been so let down by our Government. During the pandemic the Government has paid furlough to people who couldn't work I was fortunate enough to be furloughed last year, however millions haven't been as lucky and they have been left out they have created a group called  Excluded which has been pressuring the Government rightly to assistance most of them being self employed and business owners.  The COVID pandemic has drawn the curtain open to the acute inequality that is in the country that has been allowed to fester aw...

This week we witnessed the come back of Dominic Cummings to Parliament he was giving evidence to one of the select committees about the history of the Government's reaction, strategy and conduct during the COVID pandemic, which included surreal references to Spider-Man and Independence day Mr Cummings has come a long way since being Michael Gove's Chief of staff and has even been portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch who portrayed him in a film about the role that Mr Cummings played in the Vote Leave campaign in the 2016 EU referendum. It has been the first time that Mr Cummings has been back in the public eye since leaving Downing Street as the Prime Minister Boris Johnsons chief advisor well chief advisor is a bit of understatement as we discovered from watching the footage from Parliament yesterday. it appears that he was formulating policy, directing the civil service and more!  The last year in British politics has been chaotic and especially in Downing Street as Mr. Cummings ...

In the aftermath of the local election results my party didn't do well in some areas we did well, Mark Drakeford held the Senedd, Sadiq Khan got re-elected as the Mayor of London we had a good showing with Metro Mayoral elections including Andy Burnham and Tracey Brabin being re-elected and elected respectively. In addition we also took over a few sets in the south.  But we can't sugar coat the final result was bad for us, However we can not and must not tear ourselves apart as a party. I voted for and still Support Keir, I would urge my party to remember just how badly our party did in 2019 I still have a strong bout of PTSD from that evening when longstanding safe Labor seats turned blue. we still have a lot of work to do as a party it won't happen over night. I remember staying up during the night watching in total depression and horror as the constituency results slowly emerged and eventually crashed into bed at six in the morning feeling totally deflated, that feeling ...