If you replace Britain and Thatcher with US and Reagan the rest of the article perfectly describes the situation in the USA
MethyleneBlueEnjoyer on
Step 1: Elect someone who famously said “there is no such thing as society” and make her the Reagan figure of your copy-pasted American politics.
Step 2: ?????
Step 3: “Where my society gone?”
snakeoildriller on
He seems to have conveniently missed out the Blair Years, in which we joined a phoney war, got soft on crime and had an open-door policy on our borders to get more Labour-friendly voters here. In other news, Starmer’s not going to fix *anything* – he’s weak, indecisive (The UK Taco!) and if he has a vision he’s not shared it with us.
Gamebyter on
The UK had a referendum to switch FPTP and it failed.
Low_Map4314 on
Yeah, sorry – lot of what this article is saying applies to most western countries. Not just the UK.
el_dude_brother2 on
Always think its funny when people act as if before Thatcher Britain was amazing. Its was an even bigger mess. The 1970s was a disasterclass in how not to run a country.
Not saying Thatcher was amazing but there’s a reason she was given so much time.
The lack of growth since the 2008 is where UK and Europe has really fallin behind the US.
DerekMilborow on
What a train wreck of an article
SchoolForSedition on
That special relationship.
gfox365 on
Darn right tax the super rich (no, not you Geoff with your 25 plate Range Rover Sport, well done to you on that, now calm down) but Christ, who wrote this, seems standards of journalism are also in the toilet.
rising_then_falling on
Well, that was an unhinged political rant. I was particularly surprised by the idea that it could all be solved with parliamentary restructuring and a written constitution, although the article didn’t seem concerned about what would be written in it. Just so long as it’s written.
I don’t mind the far left criticising the main failures of the establishment, but when they start pretending they have solutions, that’s when I’m reminded to make sure they never gain power.
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If you replace Britain and Thatcher with US and Reagan the rest of the article perfectly describes the situation in the USA
Step 1: Elect someone who famously said “there is no such thing as society” and make her the Reagan figure of your copy-pasted American politics.
Step 2: ?????
Step 3: “Where my society gone?”
He seems to have conveniently missed out the Blair Years, in which we joined a phoney war, got soft on crime and had an open-door policy on our borders to get more Labour-friendly voters here. In other news, Starmer’s not going to fix *anything* – he’s weak, indecisive (The UK Taco!) and if he has a vision he’s not shared it with us.
The UK had a referendum to switch FPTP and it failed.
Yeah, sorry – lot of what this article is saying applies to most western countries. Not just the UK.
Always think its funny when people act as if before Thatcher Britain was amazing. Its was an even bigger mess. The 1970s was a disasterclass in how not to run a country.
Not saying Thatcher was amazing but there’s a reason she was given so much time.
The lack of growth since the 2008 is where UK and Europe has really fallin behind the US.
What a train wreck of an article
That special relationship.
Darn right tax the super rich (no, not you Geoff with your 25 plate Range Rover Sport, well done to you on that, now calm down) but Christ, who wrote this, seems standards of journalism are also in the toilet.
Well, that was an unhinged political rant. I was particularly surprised by the idea that it could all be solved with parliamentary restructuring and a written constitution, although the article didn’t seem concerned about what would be written in it. Just so long as it’s written.
I don’t mind the far left criticising the main failures of the establishment, but when they start pretending they have solutions, that’s when I’m reminded to make sure they never gain power.