In our daily poll, Mirror readers voted 97% in favour of having a general election now.
We won’t get it, of course, because the Tories changed the law so that Rishi Sunak can go to the country whenever he thinks he can con the electorate into returning him.
There is a clear democratic deficit here. Last week’s local elections signalled that voters would dearly like to get their hands on a government running on empty after 13 wasted years.
The Conservatives lost over 1,000 seats and 48 councils, to Labour, Lib Dems and the Greens, in supposedly “safe” areas of England.
There is a simmering appetite for change that could come to the boil if this lot continue to treat the electorate as dupes to be cleverly manipulated by clever-d**k politicians, one of whom is actually called Cleverly.
It cannot be beyond the wit of Brits to begin a campaign to force an election on the Tories. As Boris Johnson demonstrated, they are beyond shame, but they must have an Achilles’ heel.
A petition to Parliament that raises more than 100,000 signatures, requiring debate at Westminster, might be a start. I’d sign it.
To quote their favourite leader, the Tories are frit. Frit of us, the people who pay their wages, their utility bills, their expenses and for their globe-trotting.
Frit of the ballot box, frit of the scandals yet to be exposed and frit of voters’ hatred created by Partygate.
I was going to finish, but I’ll go on: frit of the mortgage-hammered homeowners’ desire for revenge on the party that put useless Liz Truss in Downing Street without an election.
You can see it behind their eyes. They must see it in the mirror.
