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Don't believe me? Just glance at the polls. It's not about support for Sir Keir Starmer, or his ideas (what few he does possess certainly don't inspire an electorate faced with an ongoing pandemic, devastating cost of living, and a climate crisis) - it is simply about wanting "the Tories out" (similar to how they wanted to "Get Brexit Done," the only real Tory policy presented at the last election in response to Corbyn's impressive and costed manifesto that got drowned out by that repeated mantra). The somewhat tragic irony of this is that a significant amount of the electorate (a minority of the population, mind you) who voted Tory to "Get Brexit Done" haven't enjoyed much the Tories have done, including Brexit itself getting done, and despite their perceived victorious switching of masters "from Brussels to Westminster" have learned little and are now prepared to switch back from Pepsi-Cola to Coca-Cola even while accepting that what they'll then get...will still be cola. It's bad for us. State politics is a cynical, dirty, and depressing game, and there is certainly much more joy to be found expending energy in direct democracy and our communities. Let's get on with it.