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Toiler On the Sea's avatar

Seems like no Trump-backlash in the UK . . .

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ArcticStones's avatar

One astute observer of UK politics, Robert Peston, has this take on that:

"…the UK’s vote to leave the European Union demonstrated, that we live in an age where voters’ grievances and aspirations can’t neatly be packaged up as tribally Labour or Tory.

"The great paradox of all this can be summed up in a word: “Trump”.

"It is a paradox because the polls show that British people dislike him personally and his chaotic policies. But a significant proportion of British voters yearn for something Trumpian that would break a political system which - they feel - ignores and even harms them."

. And:

"Do the Tories or Labour yet appreciate the magnitude of the threat to them this represents? And what will their survival instincts ultimately force Labour and Tories to do: remain proudly independent till death, or make common cause and form coalitions with like-minded parties?

"Big change is coming. Its shape is yet to be determined."

https://nitter.poast.org/Peston/status/1918207911333179680#m

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