The march of time
Like some re-running of a series of news reels from the 1930’s the right is on the march, again. Democracy is under attack and the democrats are making exactly the same mistakes as last time.
These are minority parties, we can pander to their demands, we can let them set the agenda, they will calm down in power, they only say these things to whip up their supporters, the will obey the unwritten rules of the constitution.
Yet we know none of this is true. Now we have idiots telling us we in the UK are in a uniquely powerful position because we not in the EU, that we should be pandering to Trump, and we should be letting Musk and other billionaires buy our elections for their mates.
Meanwhile the government stumbles on appointing a few more peers, as if that is the constitutional crisis of the day.
In a sense it is too late, there is no persuading a significant portion of the electorate that we are not being “flooded by immigrants”, that the country is not “full” that all their problems are not due to foreigners.
The Tory party is even busy transforming itself into a stepping stone, trying to out Farage the fascists, it is losing supporters, members , money and soon it will start losing MPs.
This is what happens when you let the likes of Boris Johnson take charge and purge the broad tent of those who don’t support his mad policies. The tent is now so narrow that it is danger of being blown over.
Meanwhile a not particularly brilliant government has been left holding the baby, with everything from compensation claims to defence spending, the NHS, law and order and many more needing more money.
The same is happening in France, and Germany, we used to think we were immune to this sort of stuff, but the 2016 referendum opened the doors to the 1930s and we are in real danger of walking straight though it.
From Jonty Bloom Media Ltd
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
The countries that are holding on most vociferously to the excesses of capitalism are the ones losing touch with the rule of law.
Bankers bonuses are back, but no one at HSBC seemed to suffer for their global money laundering schemes - they simply paid the French government to keep the matter out of the court.
In the UK healthcare is deliberately being downgraded to open the door for the private sector, despite the evidence of corporations actively taking decisions to allow to people to die in the name of profit.
In Germany people had to suffer winters with intermittent heating after their government surrendered their energy independence to Putin, with a nice wee earner for the man who set it up - the outgoing chancellor.
Voters notice these things.