The great thing about being a political junkie is how difficult it is to overdose
Back in 2009 when Nick Griffin won a seat in the European elections, prominent EU phile Labour MP responded by calling for the EU to block political funding for the BNP they were entitled to having won the seat, on the grounds they didn't uphold European values. In my one successful published letter to the Guardian, I argued that Corbett like many Laabour activists was ignoring the reasons why Griffin won a seat in the same arrogant manner they ignored why Derek Beackon won the Millwall ward council seat in Tower Hamlets some 16 years earlier and defunding a party doesn't address why voters made the protest vote in the first place.
This theme continued as UKIP took the baton post 2010 and once again the Labour Party ignored the signs that were obvious culminating in Labour's 2015 election defeat as people voted for a referendum on the EU
What Corbett (and the mainstream Conservatives and LibDems)always fall back on is an electoral system that keeps them in control despite clear popular shifts in one direction or another.
1 million more people backed David Cameron in 2015 as the Tories pledged a referendum and won a majority) An additional two million backed Therea May in 2017 as she sought a mandate, but was denied a majority as Corbyn's Labour committed to delivering Brexit After two years of that Parliament doing everything it could to stop Brexit, Johnson maintained the vote to secure a majority following Labour's decision as advised by Keir Starmer, to hold another referendum which saw their vote slump by 3 million,and now we have Starmer with a huge majority despite his party shedding a further 500,000 votes from 2019 and the centre left claiming the country wants to rejoin the EU
In a world heading towards a seismic cyclical reset, the intuitive notion is that the political class would strive to be aligned with the voters to stride arm in arm to the other side. The reality is that the political and mainstream media class is as far detached from the people, and maybe reality, as is humanly possible, particularly in the West in pursuit of monumental acts of self harm such as net zero fronted by people like Ed Miliband who was rejected by the people a decade ago and whose best place seems to be in a secure home
I can add some other comments over a beer on this. But suffice to say I think your analysis of Trump is correct and I suspect what happens under his administration is the end of the EU and a breakdown of the traditional political consensus as the East ascends in the new multi polar world
My email and social media is full of the vibe shift, but not in the UK. Jaguar has been panned for its latest ad featuring transgender models, but not featuring a car. Prominent marketers, not a naturally conservative bunch, are coming out saying read the room.
Meanwhile, the UK continues as if the West is going to transfer trillions to the developed world to buy solar panels - and make them for us - and J K Rowling keeps being threatened with murder by the "kind generation".
Great article Thank you
The great thing about being a political junkie is how difficult it is to overdose
Back in 2009 when Nick Griffin won a seat in the European elections, prominent EU phile Labour MP responded by calling for the EU to block political funding for the BNP they were entitled to having won the seat, on the grounds they didn't uphold European values. In my one successful published letter to the Guardian, I argued that Corbett like many Laabour activists was ignoring the reasons why Griffin won a seat in the same arrogant manner they ignored why Derek Beackon won the Millwall ward council seat in Tower Hamlets some 16 years earlier and defunding a party doesn't address why voters made the protest vote in the first place.
This theme continued as UKIP took the baton post 2010 and once again the Labour Party ignored the signs that were obvious culminating in Labour's 2015 election defeat as people voted for a referendum on the EU
What Corbett (and the mainstream Conservatives and LibDems)always fall back on is an electoral system that keeps them in control despite clear popular shifts in one direction or another.
1 million more people backed David Cameron in 2015 as the Tories pledged a referendum and won a majority) An additional two million backed Therea May in 2017 as she sought a mandate, but was denied a majority as Corbyn's Labour committed to delivering Brexit After two years of that Parliament doing everything it could to stop Brexit, Johnson maintained the vote to secure a majority following Labour's decision as advised by Keir Starmer, to hold another referendum which saw their vote slump by 3 million,and now we have Starmer with a huge majority despite his party shedding a further 500,000 votes from 2019 and the centre left claiming the country wants to rejoin the EU
In a world heading towards a seismic cyclical reset, the intuitive notion is that the political class would strive to be aligned with the voters to stride arm in arm to the other side. The reality is that the political and mainstream media class is as far detached from the people, and maybe reality, as is humanly possible, particularly in the West in pursuit of monumental acts of self harm such as net zero fronted by people like Ed Miliband who was rejected by the people a decade ago and whose best place seems to be in a secure home
I can add some other comments over a beer on this. But suffice to say I think your analysis of Trump is correct and I suspect what happens under his administration is the end of the EU and a breakdown of the traditional political consensus as the East ascends in the new multi polar world
My email and social media is full of the vibe shift, but not in the UK. Jaguar has been panned for its latest ad featuring transgender models, but not featuring a car. Prominent marketers, not a naturally conservative bunch, are coming out saying read the room.
Meanwhile, the UK continues as if the West is going to transfer trillions to the developed world to buy solar panels - and make them for us - and J K Rowling keeps being threatened with murder by the "kind generation".
Best comment I saw today was someone who said
‘The sign of real progress is when BlueSky users start blocking each other’