Hopefully.
Just for a bit of light-hearted relief, here is a "fantasy future from hell" for the rest of the decade (not entirely serious but not completely implausible either...)
2022/23 Tory leader "deals" with the cost of living crisis by implementing tax cuts that the country cannot afford, rather than other solutions which might not follow Tory ideology quite so much.
2023 Tory leader keeps recent Tory converts on board by stirring up anger against the EU and migrants, and "dealing with" the "problems" by scrapping all remaining EU laws and extending the Rwanda scheme.
2023/24 Tory leader implements yet more unaffordable tax cuts to attempt to get votes
2024 Tories win a smaller majority, comparable with say 1992, holding on to most Red Wall seats but losing a few places like Winchester to the Lib Dems and losing a few North Wales seats to Labour.
2024-2026 Tories, safe in power for 5 years, implement swingeing spending cuts (the worst of any western nation), partly due to the cost of lockdown and the effects of Brexit but mostly to pay for the tax cuts in 2023/24.
2025-2026 Tories suffer catastrophic drop in support, but the electorate can do little as they're in power until 2029. New Labour leader, Jane Brown, from an unpretentious background and winner of a late 2022 red wall by-election, enjoys a surge in support. As a result, Tories give the PM the "Boris treatment". Leadership election occurs in the summer of 2026.
2026 The 2022 winner is replaced by new Tory leader, Oxford PPE graduate and former Bullingdon club member Charles Cavendish-Smith, winner of the late 2022 Tamworth byelection.
Cavendish-Smith promises to keep the same old populist nonsense going, laced with a healthy dose of good old-fashioned Thatcherism. It works for the Tory membership but the public are not impressed, as he is seen is elite and privileged compared to Jane Brown of Labour, from a more humble background.
2027 Change of leader doesn't cause Tory fortunes to recover. Brown remains popular. Right-wing press start to panic. The dirt is dug up on Brown who is accused (correctly, but it was a long time ago of course) of being a communist while at university in 1987. People start worrying about Brown. Cavendish-Smith gains.
2028 Cavendish-Smith implements tax cuts the country cannot afford.
2029 Tories win a majority once again, losing quite a few more Red Wall seats but gaining back one or two in the South.
2030 Tories implement swingeing public spending cuts.
And so it continues....
OK a bit of a cynical and light-hearted outlook but I do sometimes wonder whether the country is stuck in a rut.