It doesn’t matter what name the ruling Parliamentary party comes under they will all serve the same master. The financial markets and globalisation. A side order of unelected and unaccountable quangos such as WEF, WHO and maybe even a little lip service to the UN.
Hidden, invisible, unelected, unaccountable (well to voters!) masters of all our fates.
A few crumbs here and there to keep the majority quiet.
A bit of virtue signaling now and then.
And a few trite “tough on this or that” tweaks to a few rules to look like something is actually being governed.
Totally disagree with Angela Rayner about the things to do (I am a committed small state conservative, she is a big state socialist) but at least someone is shouting about the iniquity of the present political system.

It’s possible that it’s a grand conspiracy to defraud the voting public. Alternatively (and, possibly, more likely), neither party has a clue how to solve our problems.

I don’t think the UK (or any other country) needs “cheap” housing. Mass construction of “cheap” housing is going to cause more problems than it solves long term. What you need is housing which is decent quality and AFFORDABLE. “Cheap” and “affordable” are not the same thing.

Many of us have been saying this for some time. I noted Andrew Bridgen talking about the ‘Uniparty’ a couple of days ago.
Starmer gave the game away with his sycophantic performance at Davos. His policies have become aligned with the central UN/WHO/WEF plans, just as Hunt and Sunak’s are.
The only real difference that I predict is less obvious corruption, for a few years at least, when Labour come in.
Populists left (Bastani), and right (Bridgen), recognise that the technocratic blob in the middle is not good for anybody except the elites.
Let’s work together, get rid of these parasites, and then we can argue about the rest.

Taking to the stage Labour’s deputy leader was every inch the firebrand…

…and people of the activist persuasion (eg. Aaron Bastani) just love a firebrand. Cue lashings of SJW indignation, emotionally satisfying denunciations of the powerful and privileged, the ‘disadvantaged’ given recognition and promised inclusion and a better life. Seen it all before. The egalitarian dream never dies it just degenerates into an administrative mess because firebrands and their disciples prefer revolutionary conflict to the dull work of governance.

Isn’t this fellow a bit late to the party? I suppose it’s never too late to open your eyes and look around.

Labour needs to learn to count. The Trans mob represent 0.005% of Voters (approx) . Women-who the trans mob seek to destroy -represent 50% of the vote.
Time to make women’s rights top of the offering.

Judging by that photo, Angela Rayner was born too late to fulfill her destiny as a minor apparatchik in some backwater Soviet satellite.

There is a shared ambition by the Treasury, Bank of England, Liberals, Labour, Scot Nats and a good portion of the Conservative Party to try for the euro again.
All of the above appear to maintain a consensus about keeping borrowing and spending in alignment with the Eurozone and its membership requirements, disastrous though that monetary and fiscal policy currently is.

Old news. But white space.always creates political opportunities to left and right. Excellent “These Times” podcast this week where Tom and Helen interviewed Dominic Sandbrook about the 1970s and what is cn teach us about 2023. They concurred that in the period just before Thatcher the feeling was apolcalyptic but one of “apocalyptic hope”. They conrrasted that with the feeling today of apocalyptic nothingness. Politicians are either out of big ideas or unprepsred to make the case for them. Much of this can be laid at rhe door of “focus groups” back in the noughties. Following voters’ views is not leadership. More hopefully, Neil Howe in The 4th Turning is Here (mostly a rehash of his earlier book for anyone thinking of buying it), states that we do not see the 4th turning leaders appearing. They are forged from the moment and arise in response. Let’s hppe so. Either that or we’regoing to have to ask generstive AI for the answer!! After all, Schwab has said that elections are redundant in a world where AI will provide better solutions, as well as knowing our voting intentions better than we do ourselves. Hmmmm …… must be Friday night

Becoming ?

Do you remember Cameron, Brown and Clegg on telly, all looking like identikits of each other except for the different colour ties ?

Next GE is still probably 14mths away and it’ll be when we see the manifestos we have a better sense of ‘Uni-party’ similarities, even though both main parties will look for ‘wedge’ issues too.
Right now of course an extended period of competent stable government by folks who aren’t disconnected multimillionaires seems to be what the core of the electorate want. We had the ‘radicalism’ of Brexit and then the KamiKwasi/Truss growth shambles such that majority may well be reflecting these big radical projects ain’t quite what they were cracked up to be.
So if the will of the people is a return to some sobering, boring moderate centrist governing is it a surprise the Parties reflect that to a large degree? What could be more British?
Nonetheless whoever wins in 24 will inherit a dire public realm especially which will take at least two parliaments to address and some radical action. Whether either party has entirely worked out how it’s gong to tackle these problems I doubt and much work still to be done.
As regards our Ange – the Deputy role has more often been deliberately filled by such a personality and background – Prescott, George Brown etc. Labour remains a coalition and needs this

This is happening throughout the Western world. Our parties are realigning.
In the US, the Dems have adopted the views of the uber-educated and wealthy. The GOP is gradually shifting toward the working class. (“populism” = “right wing working class”)
In the UK, the Tories cracked the red wall with Brexit but appear to now know what to do with those voters, who the Tory establishment essentially despises. Meanwhile Labour is going full culture-war like the Dems.
Even in France, the working class is increasingly turning to right-wing vehicles as Macron makes it clear he doesn’t give a hoot about them. In Holland, similarly.
Either the right-wing parties will learn to make the transition to working-class populism, or they will be replaced. That applies even to the Republicans in America, where it’s REALLY hard to replace a party. You just can’t have a republic when the 75% of your country that’s not college educated is without a political vehicle. That’s a vacuum that will be filled, one way or another.

“Becoming”?

Labour is the party of property-owning middle class professionals who live off the state. Everything else is performative window-dressing. Including Angela Rayner.

Aaron has been fooled. Starmer is a dangerous Leftie.

All the Westminster parties are left-ish. So this feels a bit like talking about the Judean Peoples Front.

Decisions by Committees are rarely good ones. The better system would be an Autocracy with a limited term. “Its easier to find one good man, than many” (Dio Cassius, arguing for rule by an Emperor rather than a Senate)