The King’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament is the Government’s official opportunity to set out all the laws that they intend to pass over the next 12 months.
Although talk of a May election appears to have been killed off by the Conservatives’ disastrous Annual Conference with 31st October 2024 now the most likely date the country will go to the polls, barring further attempts to kick the can down the road today’s speech was the Government’s last opportunity to show voters their vision for the country and to try to actually resolve some of the problems we’re facing.
Instead of a vision for the UK, we were left with a speech absent of real substance. Lip service was paid to the economy and the cost of living, but no actual measures on the biggest issue of the day.
Meanwhile the few proposals actually contained within the speech, such as around housing and policing, are far too little, far too late to resolve the crises the Conservatives have helped to fuel. Perhaps the most lasting impact will be from the expansion of licenses for extracting fossil fuels from the North Sea, licenses which won’t take effect until long after the current prices have receded but leave an environmental legacy generations of our descendants will be left to endure.
In all, it was a speech devoid of substance from a party lacking in any vision for our country. The sooner this zombie government can be removed from office, the sooner we can get Britain’s future back.
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