The election in Britan scares me! Sounds like what could easily happen here in 2020!

[napi21]

I HOPE wwe can convince enough people of how bad DT has been for our Counttry and how much worse he would be in a second term!

[Tarc]

1. The dynamic of Democratic vs Republican here miles apart from the hot mess

of the half-dozen and more UK parties vying for seats at the table. Apples and oranges.

[lame54]

7. You mean blood sausage and crumpets

[OnDoutside]

10. Blood sausage ... Tsk tsk, it's black & white pudding of which Clonakilty

Is so nice....

[evertonfc]

2. run a

candidate similar to Corbyn and you will lose but not to that extent. Corbyn was humiliated and embarrassed

[tenderfoot]

4. And who did you vote for?

[evertonfc]

8. I'm not British but

would have not supported Corbyn

[tenderfoot]

9. I'm not at all surprised

eom

[OnDoutside]

11. I remember the Militant Tendency in the 80s making Labour as

unelectable, with the likes of Derek Hatton and cronies destroying the party until eventually Kinnock took them on. The Corbynistas are a similar gang that need to be rooted out, or the Tories will be in for another decade of power.

[tenderfoot]

14. That's not what I'm hearing from my English friends

I'll take their word for it.

[OnDoutside]

17. You need to find new friends then, cos they're not giving reality

based information.

[tenderfoot]

19. I need to find to new friends? Like who? Ukipers? Right wingers? Fascists? Tories?

Gee, I guess my LOSER British friends don't watch the Beeb or Sky or read the Telegraph or the Daily Mail.... based information for sure.

[OnDoutside]

20. Nah, just ones who can look at Labour suffering a catastrophic failure and

not putting it at the feet Corbyn and his merry band of Trots. There were plenty of other Labour MPs like Keir Starmer, who would have been far more acceptable to the British public, and someone who could be trusted to fight against Brexit.

[tenderfoot]

21. I'm glad you're happy Corbyn got trounced

[OnDoutside]

22. Eh ? Stating that there's a juggernaut heading towards you, doesn't imply people are happy you

were in a crash, and neither is pointing out that there's another juggernaut on the horizon, if you don't take evasive action. Corbynite politics has brought Labour to where it is today, and while at least Corbyn appears to be in the processing of resigning, the Corbynistas have already made noises that they plan to install their own replacement.

[evertonfc]

13. your assumption

is noted. Looks like like my opinion was quite popular yesterday.

[tenderfoot]

15. I'm glad you're happy with the results of the election

eom

[tenderfoot]

3. It is scary, Ds should give up the notion of affordable Health care, housing, better wages, schools,

etc.

Those initiatives are just too far to the left.

[FiveGoodMen]

5. Amen

[Cattledog]

6. Working class voters want jobs...

Mr. Johnson’s Conservative Party rode a wave of frustrated working-class voters to a decisive majority in Parliament, radically realigning British politics and reshaping Britain’s oldest party. Crucially, that new coalition of voters may also shape the trade agreement that Mr. Johnson must now negotiate with Europe — and hence, the nature of his Brexit.

The voters who gave Mr. Johnson the largest Conservative majority since Margaret Thatcher share few of the free-trade or deregulatory instincts of the Brexiteers who masterminded Mr. Johnson’s campaign or filled his last cabinet. These voters want safe jobs, protection from imports and the restoration of a Britain that vanished in the contrails of the global economy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/world/europe/brexit-boris-johnson-election.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

A similar thing has been happening in this country as party coalitions undergo changes. Although Democrats have long claimed to be the party of the white working class, that’s hardly the case anymore. For many years, working-class whites have been moving toward the Republican Party, and under Trump that movement has accelerated. That’s the conundrum facing Democrats as they think about how to assemble an electoral college majority in 2020.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/johnsons-victory-shakes-up-britain-and-may-hit-the-us/2019/12/13/1666c43c-1dc4-11ea-b4c1-fd0d91b60d9e_story.html

[pwb]

12. That British blonde guy is smarter than trump.

Many people that gave trump a chance now see he is not mentally up to the job. He will lose big time in my opinion.

[Yavin4]

16. A lot of this is simply immigrant backlash

Brexit, Boris Johnson, the Tories election, all of it is nothing more than anti-immigrant backlash, xenophobia.

So, let the UK fall apart on their hatred, and if we go down that path, then we deserve to fall apart as well.

[OnDoutside]

18. There's an element of that, but it's far more complex than that. Even

in this election, Labour got hammered in Labour heartlands that had been left to rot, similar to working class areas in the US.