Keir Starmer, who would be PM, will be an interesting test case for what the data says and what people actually think (based on accessibility to information)
It’s clear the Conservatives will be annihilated at the next election (Sunak’s best option is surely to go on May 2nd alongside the council elections and the London council elections including the Mayor given Uxbridge demonstrated Labour is blamed for the ULEZ expansion). But are Labour really heading for the landslide they enjoyed in 1945 and 1997 ?
Starmer represents a lot of what is wrong with Western democracy. A perfunctory dullard who openly admitted he doesn’t see the adversarial chamber of Westminster as the means to express vision and politics and where actual decisions are made, but sees the gathering of the top 0.5% (the Elites) as the decision makers which he would implement
I’m not sure that is what people want and whilst the reason for Brexit can be argued, I think Mark Blyth summed it up best when he said,
“It’s about disdain for governance by unelected, unaccountable, unrepresentative elites who will implement policy whether the people vote for it or not”
One interesting take is that a Labour majority makes it able to argue it governs the UK as well as representing its constituent parts. Good news, as territorial issues subside.
But a rump Conservative party might turn on Unionism. If the Welsh, Irish and Scots will never vote Tory then sod 'em. That'll put independence right back on the agenda.
Interesting though that the SNP may implode at the next election after doing arguably as much for Scottish independence as the Tories, and Wales has been a Labour fiefdom with Plaid Cymru barely scraping enough seats to hold the balance of power in the Welsh parliament
If the case can be made that actually these devolved administrations were just yet another bad idea by Tony Blair, I’d say the case for Scottish independence at least has been lost for another generation
Well yes. Funny how MPs on the unionist side who ceded to the idea of devolved government, still apply the ‘Westminster is the mother Parliament’ when it comes to England
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Keir Starmer, who would be PM, will be an interesting test case for what the data says and what people actually think (based on accessibility to information)
It’s clear the Conservatives will be annihilated at the next election (Sunak’s best option is surely to go on May 2nd alongside the council elections and the London council elections including the Mayor given Uxbridge demonstrated Labour is blamed for the ULEZ expansion). But are Labour really heading for the landslide they enjoyed in 1945 and 1997 ?
Starmer represents a lot of what is wrong with Western democracy. A perfunctory dullard who openly admitted he doesn’t see the adversarial chamber of Westminster as the means to express vision and politics and where actual decisions are made, but sees the gathering of the top 0.5% (the Elites) as the decision makers which he would implement
I’m not sure that is what people want and whilst the reason for Brexit can be argued, I think Mark Blyth summed it up best when he said,
“It’s about disdain for governance by unelected, unaccountable, unrepresentative elites who will implement policy whether the people vote for it or not”
More of the same is coming.
One interesting take is that a Labour majority makes it able to argue it governs the UK as well as representing its constituent parts. Good news, as territorial issues subside.
But a rump Conservative party might turn on Unionism. If the Welsh, Irish and Scots will never vote Tory then sod 'em. That'll put independence right back on the agenda.
Interesting though that the SNP may implode at the next election after doing arguably as much for Scottish independence as the Tories, and Wales has been a Labour fiefdom with Plaid Cymru barely scraping enough seats to hold the balance of power in the Welsh parliament
If the case can be made that actually these devolved administrations were just yet another bad idea by Tony Blair, I’d say the case for Scottish independence at least has been lost for another generation
And the case for English independence?
Well yes. Funny how MPs on the unionist side who ceded to the idea of devolved government, still apply the ‘Westminster is the mother Parliament’ when it comes to England