Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, May 23, 2024

Harbinger Of Good?

 This summer, in July, Britain will have a general election. It is widely expected that Labour will wipe the floor with the Conservatives who have ruled Britain for 14 years and overseen the single biggest own goal in recent political history: Brexit. Brexit was, in many ways, the harbinger of Trump. It was a product of casual bigotry and xenophobia; it was poorly thought through and it was a policy disaster.

Repudiation of the Tories took a while, as the implications of Brexit have no become abundantly clear. Of course, it remains to be seen what Labour will do about Brexit, but the Conservatives should have been punished long ago for the Boris Johnson-Liz Truss nonsense.

Of course, the same goes for the GOP, who should've been punished a long time ago for foisting that ambulatory orange shitsack on the country. Yeah, yeah, yeah...POLLS! But I do think that once people start tuning in this fall when Trump could very well have a felony conviction on his record, I think the sniping at Biden will abate and America's own goal can be reveresed.

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