23-08-2018, 01:40
(22-08-2018, 23:32)0762 Wrote: I must say I've come to the conclusion that the mainstream politics of today in the UK, Conservative or Labour, are not "fit for purpose" any more and the time could come when a totally different political option is seen as far better than the political ideologies that this pair have traditionally offered for decades n decades! As Bob Dylan famously sang - The times they are a changing! And an eventual younger predominant voting population could make it happen.
I think you could be right with that. Look at what happened in France with the emergence of Macron, but on the flip side I think that move away from the established parties and towards a populist candidate is what propelled Trump into the White House even though it was under the banner of the Republican Party. Politics has over the last 20 years gone to the fringes of the left and the right rather than the middle ground that tends to pull form the best parts of both ends, its exactly what Blair did to such success with the Labour party was pull them out of the looney left they had been in for years and put them back into the mainstream where they could actually win elections. My issue with Corbyn is that he is almost unelectable, he doesn't appeal to those in the middle ground who might vote for Labour or Tory depending on policy and personality of the leaders, and this is where elections tend to be won or lost.