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/422/ Meat the New Prime Minister: UK Election Rundown (Patreon)

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2024-07-07 20:54:47
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2026-06
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On 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

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Justin O’Connor

Interesting that the only reference to any suffering is the mild annoyance from congestion charges. About is PMC, Farage is working class. You need some sociological information here. I am by no means a Starmer supporter and indeed like most others had little enthusiasm. But "not the Tories" also means that Labour would not be Tories - basically a rapaciously incompetent government which made many people live far worse. And this is not just the PMC. George's characterisation of these as PhDs in Anti-Semitism studies is total right wing nonsense.

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.