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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnyone else absolutely fascinated by the current UK political machinations?
Double-crosses, triple-crosses, "cuckoo's nest" plots.... as someone commented, it does indeed make "House of Cards" look like the Teletubbies.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/30/how-boris-johnson-was-brought-to-his-knees-by-the-cuckoo-nest-pl/
Meldread
(4,213 posts)I am watching everything come crashing down, and trying to figure out how real Leftists can seize control of the Labor Party and then take over the country. Tory's will carry the responsibility for taking the U.K. out of the EU, but if Labor is able to move strongly to the left in order to combat the rise of the far right, then maybe they can find some way to help the U.K. benefit from the turmoil.
Albertoo
(2,016 posts)If you follow British politics, you must have seen a flurry of articles saying Labour as it is is committing suicide. Even Thomas Piketty resigned his advisory position in disgust.
Labour took the wrong turn when it chose the wrong Milliband.
Meldread
(4,213 posts)However, I think he will actually win the election. All the resignations only help him. Right now there is a strong anti-elitist mood washing over most of the Western World. Most of those who stepped out were dedicated to the Tony Blair Third Way Agenda. This was strongly rejected by Labor voters when they put in Corbyn. He is like the Bernie Sanders of the Labor Party, he represents an old school liberal view of the world dating back pre-1990's, but he lacks the political skills to actually achieve tangible results for the Left.
The best hope that we can foresee in Labor is more Leftists rising up to take power in the party, purging the existing establishment, and then ultimately replacing Corbyn with someone more suited to the job of actually furthering the Leftist Agenda. In the mean time I think of Corbyn more of a placeholder than anything else.
Besides, now would be a horrible time for Labor to take power. The last thing anyone should want is to have any responsibility for what is going to unfold as the UK disentangles itself from the EU. Let the Tory's own it. Then when things go poorly, as they inevitably will, the Left will be able to campaign against their failure.
Albertoo
(2,016 posts)As you rightly said, " Right now there is a strong anti-elitist mood washing over most of the Western World".
At times of economic stagnation and income disparity (triggered and fueled by the insane GW tax cuts), populists prey: populist RW (Farage, Trump, Le Pen), populist LW (Corbyn, Chomsky)
Denzil_DC
(7,188 posts)Nearly.
It's like House of Cards with the cast replaced by the Teletubbies.
shenmue
(38,501 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)I thought Boris was supposed to be stuck with Brexit repercussions. Why would anyone want to get his fingerprints on the utter mess that is going to follow ?
Albertoo
(2,016 posts)Damn! Just days after the election, they all turned coat and matter-of-factly conceded their campaign claims were fibs.
Farage admitted the "billions for the NHS" was a lie
BoJo said he would preserve free trade membership, which comes with freedom of movement of people, which is what he said Brexit would put a stop to.
The Brexit campaign will end up as a textbook case of demagoguery.