Whilst the meanness can be maddening, the ongoing rune reading, hypocrisies and outright story telling on Twitter (X), from so many who really should know better, can certainly make you laugh.

Reading the tweets from across the political spectrum this morning about George Galloway’s win in Rochdale has certainly proved to be no different and anyone coming to social media for the first time would probably take one look and conclude that the Workers Party of Britain is about to win the next General Election (Which could literally be in just a couple of months’ time)

With the shortest period served by an MP between a By-Election and the next General Election being 92 days, it is likely that the longevity of a ‘new’ MP who has actually represented 3 different parliamentary constituencies before, will come under the spotlight, along with many other controversies that range from Mr Galloway’s priorities to his stint in the Celebrity Big Brother House when he pretended to be a cat.

The fun bits of all this aside, Galloway’s return to Westminster probably has more to do with the trainwreck that turned out to be the Labour Party candidate selection, rather than it being suggestive that this next General Election will see a big rush towards dangerous forms of politics that would be new to the UK.

That said, the dynamics and possibilities for the coming Election are changing all the time. And whilst we can be reasonably certain that the next Government will look and behave in very similar ways to what we are experiencing right now, after the reality hits home that things will not get better and everything is set to remain the same, it would be anyone’s guess what will happen next.

The truth that few who live and breathe UK politics today are considering, is that the relationship between the electorate and the elected has already changed across the country.

People will increasingly vote differently or ‘off script’ as they have done in Rochdale, for candidates that don’t just talk about change. But who together with others, will actually have what it takes to deliver change too.

I wouldn’t want to bet on any of the political parties that are lining up to try and take seats in the next parliament right now. But if the parties and MPs we recognise don’t begin to change their approach to the relationship they have with voters very soon, there’s very good reason to believe that the change will start with many of them being changed for alternatives that we will start to see taking over their seats very soon.

The questions we should all be asking are ‘Who will those people be? What will they do? and What will they believe?’