Posted on 12/14/2019 4:41:30 AM PST by karpov
As much as Britain’s election Thursday was a victory to Boris Johnson, the vote also dealt a humiliating defeat to Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Not since 1935 has a Labour candidate fallen so flat with voters, and the reasons are a warning to America’s Democrats.
The collapse of Labour’s working-class vote is the main explanation for Mr. Johnson’s win, and the main story of the election. Labour’s “red wall” of districts across the north of England collapsed, with the Tories winning seats so staunchly Labour that the Tories barely campaigned. Some of these areas have voted Labour since before World War II.
Most of the blame lies with Mr. Corbyn and his left-wing acolytes. Polls found voters trusted Mr. Johnson more than Mr. Corbyn on Brexit, national security, crime and the economy. After the election, news networks have run interviews with first-time Conservative voters in these areas all of whom say they didn’t want Mr. Corbyn to be Prime Minister.
The election is also a repudiation of Corbynism and Labour leaders who thought a lurch to the left would rescue the party. Mr. Corbyn, a Parliament backbencher, catapulted into leadership in 2015. Two electoral defeats had persuaded many party regulars that Labour needed to abandon the centrism of the Tony Blair years for a more radical agenda.
This theory gained steam after Labour’s blue-collar base voted for Brexit in 2016, and the party concluded that vote was a cry for more social welfare rather than a sign of cultural frustration with urban progressives. To that end, Mr. Corbyn offered more spending in spades in this campaign, plus promises to radically reshape the British economy.
He promised to nationalize utilities, railways and even broadband service, to tax private schools, to impose new taxes on homeowners
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Great Britain has suffered from much the same thing that the United States has for the past several decades - almost unrestricted immigration, both legal and illegal, that has diluted much of the core of common background that formerly tied each of these relatively heterogeneous nations into a distinct nationality, bound by a similar language and legal systems.
The new arrivals have NOT assimilated, but have striven to maintain their own idea of “purity” of the beliefs they brought along with them. Not only that, but they have justified to themselves that the “purity” was something that should be enforced upon their host country.
An attitude and actions that was bound to produce sometimes strong reactions.
The fact that Scottland votes for the Scottish Independence Party over Labour is also what has really doomed Labour. Without those Scottish votes, Labour has no chance.
This is why the hard left US Demonrats should be encouraged to vote for the actual Socialist Party, or old-time Democrats to vote for the Libertarian Party/Green Party
If we can split the Democrats coalition they are toast
Biden trying to appear sane is warning dems about radical left
Wow! Sounds familiar
You are correct
The American left is now in trouble because it has never had an original thought. All the American left proposes is a rehash of something imported from the UK. When the UK left is destroyed there is no foundation for the American left.
The irony is that The American conservative disease apparently metastasized in the UK eliminating the very basis for the American left existence
I believe the Dimms are going to be in a rude awakening with their black and Hispanic electorate walls crumbling. Right now their undying support for all things Dimms is taken for granted.
What does Democrat Party, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi have in common with ex-UK, Labor Party leader, Jeremy Corbin?...Both are total losers and 100% Political failures from top to bottom. That application also applies to the entire USA Democrat Party and all of their Fake News allies.
What does the Democrat Party have in common with the UK, Labor Party? Both are failed political organizations from top to bottom. And, that goes for the British left-wing, socialist, communist fake news media,also.
I got a e-mail from a great friend of mine who was born and has lived in the United Kingdom for his entire life. For most of his life..he has been a “Blue Collar” member and 100% supporter of the British Labor Party. In his e-mail, he related to me that he will be voting for the Conservatives...headed by their Donald J. Trump style leader, Boris Johnson. and he stated this was also a ditto for hundreds of his fellow blue collar brothers and sisters. Reason for the change, was the left wing movement of Labor and the Labor Party failure to provide leadership in growth and expansion of the British economy worldwide and inside the failing Socialist European Union!!!
He also told me that his fellow Laborites would never tell any pollster what they were feeling and believing!!!
So...the end result, a few days back was the Labor Party in the UK has just about died politically for many years to come and...he sees exactly the same scenerio occurring in the USA. He feels that Johnson & Trump will form a solid fair trade relationship that will strongly benefit both great countries.
He also foresees that the USA Democrat Party will fail as did the UK Labor Party and will destroy itself politically for many years to come. He, in addition, says that any Democrat whether in the House or Senate, that votes to impeach USA, POTUS, Donald J. Trump is finished politically just as Jeremey Corbin died politically overnight.
IMHO...I think my old buddy, whose politics I once did not care for, has the light and is right on the money with his clear unbiased assessment..period. There is nothing more for me to say!!!
Watching Jeremy Corbyn it’s more than understandable that he was rejected by the voters. I can only hope that American voters have a similar reaction having viewed Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Jerrold Nadler and other democrats during this impeachment farce.
“Biden trying to appear sane is warning dems about radical left”
prior to Bloomberg’s entry, Biden’s minders had planted one foot each in the fake “middle” camp and the ultra-looney leftist AOC camp, trying to have his cake and eat it too ...
however, a few days after Bloomberg entered the race and started trying to fully stake out the fake “middle” camp, Biden’s minders immediately replanted both of Biden’s feet firmly into the fake “middle” camp before Bloomberg could get any traction ... Biden has been there ever since ... for the Dems, Biden appears to actually offer a choice from the great gaggle of avowed kommie candidates ...
that will be Biden’s great appeal, that and name recognition and past association with obama ... however, should Biden actually get the nomination, Biden’s mental decrepitude will be on full display for all, and Trump will make mincemeat out of the poor ol’ addled Biden, without even having to try very hard ... as awful of a Presidential candidate that Biden is, he actually IS the best the Dems currently have to offer ...
Boris Johnson gets it - he was referring to the working class when he said “The Northern votes are merely on loan.” Produce for them and the loan is renewed. Lecture them about how they should shut up and enjoy uncontrolled immigration and an all-out assault on their culture and traditions and you lose. As the Dems in the States have careened Left they have shown increasingly open contempt for working and middle class voters they consider to be rightfully theirs and safely in the bag, as Labour did in the UK. It’s probably already too late to correct that trajectory.
I think it should be said that equally as important is the Tories own move to the left to occupy the centre ground.
The Northern Working class may have rejected Corbyns far left lunacy and hatred of his own country but these new Tory voters wont tolerate Thatcherism 2.0. They want to see an improvement in the NHS and public services and the need to appease these new voters will influence Bojo’s domestic agenda over the next 5 years.
Ditto for the Democrats here.
Yes, even I admit, the NHS is the “third rail of British politics” as Social Security is here. It’s not going to go away, so the answer is to try to make the best of it.
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