After the dust from the UK election has settled, we can see the “Curse of Zelensky” has struck again—and without limits. This is the online joke about how any leader photographed shaking hands with the Ukrainian “leader for life” soon ends up with the punishment “comeuppance” at the hands of the disgruntled electorate.

The Conservative party was roundly trounced in the parliamentary elections in the UK, officially beaten by Labour who gained a massive landslide win, going from 205 seats in parliament to 411, a gain of 206, while the conservative party went from 344 seats to 121, a loss of 223, including the seats of a number of cabinet members, and the prime minister Rishi Sunak, the first time in British electoral history that a sitting PM has lost his seat.

Sick and tired of the lot!

Perhaps the French can top this one in the next round. Such a comprehensive defeat of the Conservatives can be blamed on a number of factors, the short list of reasons for the lost starts with ding their mishandling of Brexit, in effect keeping the UK subservient to the EU by continuing to adhere to the legal rulings of the ailing Franco-German beloved European Court. And not to forget the fiasco over inter-Ireland trade between the Republic of Ireland and the British ruled Northern Ireland, the chaos of repeated party leadership changes, etc.

The HR for Labour has not been the cream of the crop, with a rapid succession of PMs after the resignation of David Cameron, with the Tories running through Theresa May, PMs from 2017 until 2019. And not to forget, Boris Johnson, great spoiler of what was thought to have been a done deal Ukrainian-Russian peace deal.

He is still remembered for his insane lockdown policies during COVID in 2020 came back to haunt him in 2022, when it turned out that he and his ilk had been partying-it-up while the ordinary voter was banned from even visiting loved ones in hospital or to attend their funerals.

Good Riddance to all of them

The proof of the pudding of the best that the Conservatives had to offer in recent years is well-reflected in the incredibly short career of Liz Truss, and she was noted for having been outlived by a lettuce, and her replacement by the completely out of touch Rishi Sunak in October 2022, whose premiership lurched from one gaff filled crisis to another until the disaster of the current........

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