“We do need […] to avoid falling into the trap of assuming that, simply because populist radical right parties have increased their support at the same time as social democratic parties have lost theirs, the change is due to working-class voters moving en masse from one to the other,” writes Tim Bale is professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London.
Indeed, the latest research suggests that this is far from the case, with most of those flocking to the far right coming either from more mainstream rightwing parties or from the ranks of the serially disillusioned.
Oh my fucking gods, I haven’t laughed this hard in a while… And yet it’s so so fucking depressing…
Starmer is a neoliberal centrist at best, he is a Torie in a red tie, as much a part of the old school establishment, and filled with disdain of marginalised people and the working class as any conservative, and absolutely no one in their right mind should hang any sort of hopes on him doing anything positive for anyone but himself and those like him.
What an absolute fucking joke.
Macron can’t run for the next election so he emigrated to the UK?
That would be a little less worse than the reality - that we’re all lorded over by the same slimy corporate types, only there to maintain the ruling class and the facade of “democracy”.