Reader’s letter: Time to deliver on change

Well, the people have voted and they voted for change. It certainly was an unusual election, but who won?

The imperative to punish the Tories for years of political malpractice was palpable on the campaign trail in a way that exultant Starmer fandom was not.

Contempt for an incumbent government and enthusiasm for the only available replacement are not the same thing.

Starmer won simply be-cause everyone wanted the Tories out.

Turnout at 60% was the second lowest in history.

Labour won 63% of seats on 34% of the vote and Lib Dems won 11% of seats on 12% of the vote whereas Reform won less than 1% of seats on 14% of the vote.

The new government has the lowest share of the popular vote of any party becoming the majority Government.

A landslide it was not!

We in Newark remained Conservative.

Keir Starmer must now restore growth, create jobs for the unions and provide lots of subsidies for energy without creating a debt crisis which could ‘crash’ the British economy whilst, at the same time, implementing a Woke agenda without upsetting some of his more socially conservative supporters.

No pressure then!

We might now begin to hear chanters chant: “What do we want: CHANGE, when do we want it: NOW!”

Starmer will need to produce a revolution among civil servants because, in the words of a well-known anthem: ‘Rule Bureaucracy! ‘Bureaucracy Rules its Slaves!’

Just saying! — R. SHEPPARD, Beckingham.