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🕑 Added 2024-07-07 20:54:47 +0000 UTCOn Labour's landslide and sandcastle majority.
We unpick what happened in the UK's general election, discussing:
How did Labour get such a large majority with so little enthusiasm for them?
Is the UK now a multiparty democracy, and will there be demands for serious electoral reform?
What accounts for low turnout and the fragmentation of the vote (Reform, Greens, Independents, etc)?
What is Keir Starmer's electoral base and how will he govern? What is their electoral programme?
Is Nigel Farage's reform the real opposition now?
Is the Brexit period now definitely over? Will there be a move to rejoin the EU?
Links:
The McSweeney Project, Tom McTague, UnHerd
Debasing Citizenship, Peter Ramsay, TNS
Data on the nationalist right + driving to work in the UK and French train stations
Comments
Justin O’Connor
*Labour, not About
Justin O’Connor
There is no reason why a college educated left (as opposed to the college educated Right, who are those "merchants" never mentioned when Brahmins are invoked, but who are ACTUALLY in power) cannot ally with the working class, decimated over the last 14 years. As much of it was the 20 odd years before than. The radicalism of the Two Georges has an anti-Left structural antipathy that will always present this as care/ public sector service workers befuddled by the PMC ("folk memory" - really?). As for the characterisation of public sector union leaders - this is basically a right wing trope going way back.
