Every opinion poll strengthens my view that if mainstream parties don't appear to be talking about the real world and how people live within it then that leaves a gap for populists who can shout vacuous stuff louder.
Unfashionable as it may be.
Unfashionable as it may be.
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David Henig
Basically Labour has no realistic and coherent view of the UK or global economy, or where the EU fits in to that. And I suspect that's true of other policy areas as well. Which is always going to be a problem for governing.
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But the evidence so far is not promising.
They’ve lost ground because nothing appears to be getting better on a day-to-day basis as things affect people’s daily struggles.
Mainstream parties: crickets
Far right: too many immigrants push up the rent
Voter: the far right are the only ones listening to me
The fact no mainstream party is talking about THEE most important issue is outrageous, COST OF LIVING!!!
Ie "how does it make my bills cheaper? Does it mean I can afford a house? Will it make my neighbourhood safer?" That sort of thing.
The chasm between the real world and modern politics.
But predominantly this is on the centre-left / right politicians.
Growth, growth, growth, but no recognition that the annual lost #Brexit related growth of £100bn GDP and £40bn tax is stifling both the economy and public spending. A flatlining economy.
We are being gaslit.
Doesn't a Gross have to have Net to catch it when it falls?
Funny how Anglo-economists do not suggest mandatory accounting in schools considering that Adam Smith wrote "read, write and ACCOUNT" FIVE Times in Wealth of Nations & 'education' 80 Times.