With a general election tomorrow, called early by Sunak, the predictions are grim. To be blunt, how any thinking, theologically sound Christian can vote Labour is unfathomable given their stance on the family, sexuality, Islam, the unborn and assisted suicide. Saying that, we’ve had 14 years of the Conservatives, who have simply acted like a socialist government.
Back in the 1990’s, Barry Smith was right, it matters little as to who is in power, as they all follow the ‘script’ they are given. The evidence of this can be seen in recent history. Look back over the last 20, 30 or 40 years and you can chart a direction of travel that is unaffected by differing flavours of government in No.10. Yes, there will be small discrepancies based on whether it’s a tory or socialist government, but overall the direction of travel does not change.
To back this up, the former UK Prime Minister, Liz Truss wrote the following in the Wall Street Journal
“Across the West—especially the English-speaking world—there has been a shift of power away from democratically accountable officeholders to unelected bureaucrats and technocrats. The administrative state undermined Mr. Trump’s first term and undermined my tenure as Britain’s prime minister, forcing me out of office after 49 days. I assumed that I would be able to drive through the agenda on which I was elected. How wrong I was. The opaque British bureaucratic state undermined my proposed reforms, and their American equivalents will have Mr. Trump in their sights if he is victorious in November. The deep state will attempt to undercut him even more than it did in his first term… As soon as I announced plans to institute a range of supply-side reforms, I was marked by the technocrats for political extinction.”
The Deep State Lies in Wait for Trump – Liz Truss
This is why many bold manifesto pledges do not come to pass once the people who promised them reach power, because they come to learn where the real power lies. This is before we even get onto the tyrannical reality of Stakeholder Capitalism.
The truth is that Labour and Conservative are two sides of the same coin. Voting Labour will fast track us to tyranny. Voting Conservative is the same direction, but a little more slowly. A vote for Reform UK, will slow that journey down the most, although the destination will be the same (unless the deep state, globalist machine is disabled first).
We are living on ‘borrowed’ time in the UK, a time of extended grace, but this may soon run out. For the Christian, the need is now critical to be awake and alert to what is happening and to live accordingly.
This video by Dave Brennan is worth a watch and will stand the test of time, should the worst happen and a Labour majority be delivered tomorrow.
Can you really vote Labour? As a Christian I believe the answer to this is a resounding no, but then the Conservatives are not much better either. Is this the point where the only viable options are either spoil the ballot paper or vote Reform UK? I think it is, but I also think this is the point where we need to spur one another on and get serious about what it means to follow Jesus in a country that has turned it’s back on the Gospel.
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