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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, July 4, 2024

If You Believe In Omens...

 The harbinger of Trump was Brexit, idiocy fueled by the same sort of ethnonationalism that fuels Trump.

Britain has given us a very different omen this time.

The Tories have gone from having 365 seats in a 650 seat House of Commons to what looks like around 130. The Liberal Democrats will have around 60 seats, which is an amazing total for them.

Labour will have more than 400 seats (if the exit polls are accurate).

I guess July 4th is Independence Day in Britain this year, too.

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