Labour Party politics

[Stirlingsays]

If they pick a DEI candidate they will not only lose but evaporate as a party.

Before you applaud that, the gap will be filled by a large and growing harder left who will rise to oppose the expanding harder right.

History has shown that polarizing politics to the spectrum limits does not end well.

That doesn't really bother me because I see the far left and far right as the only real way forward in terms of electoral success. The establishment have generationally dropped the ball so badly, whether they were Labour or Tories.....Obviously a stereotype but boomers are going to vote right, zoomers left.

Whether that's better for the nation is a valid question....obviously, I'm nailing my colours to someone like Lowe or if I have to Farage (as I regard him as a right wing neoliberal nothing more).

But the deeper question is that I don't see a centre holding in British politics.....due to the middle class being overwhelmingly left wing...even progressive, whereas the working class don't have that commitment to the ideology, despite generational brain washing....So I see significant problems ahead.
Because the middle class gain from the establishment but the working class don't....How we got here is essentially the story of the decline in elites....and globalism/international banking....but that's a touchy subject.

Being Generation X....as I check out at some point in the next ten/twenty years....It will be in an era where Blighty isn't going to be a happy bunny.

Where we end up is anyone's idea.

 

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That doesn't really bother me because I see the far left and far right as the only real way forward in terms of electoral success. The establishment have generationally dropped the ball so badly, whether they were Labour or Tories.....Obviously a stereotype but boomers are going to vote right, zoomers left.

Whether that's better for the nation is a valid question....obviously, I'm nailing my colours to someone like Lowe or if I have to Farage (as I regard him as a right wing neoliberal nothing more).

But the deeper question is that I don't see a centre holding in British politics.....due to the middle class being overwhelmingly left wing...even progressive, whereas the working class don't have that commitment to the ideology, despite generational brain washing....So I see significant problems ahead.
Because the middle class gain from the establishment but the working class don't....How we got here is essentially the story of the decline in elites....and globalism/international banking....but that's a touchy subject.

Being Generation X....as I check out at some point in the next ten/twenty years....It will be in an era where Blighty isn't going to be a happy bunny.

Where we end up is anyone's idea.

Regrettably our decline will continue. Perhaps historians will trace the origin to the migration crisis of the last decade?

We'll have a bloody good navy though.

 

[Stirlingsays]

Regrettably our decline will continue. Perhaps historians will trace the origin to the migration crisis of the last decade?

We'll have a bloody good navy though.

I put it down to the rise of the boomer generation and the lessons they took from WW2....that's the germ of modern feminism, mass immigration, queer theory.

Which weren't attitudes that those that actually fought it had or saw things.

The decline of the Anglo (using as a basic term for whitey) in leadership positions in the west also hasn't helped.