So, we wake up to a different country: blue across great swathes of the north of England; the Conservatives the new party of the working classes and Labour apparently now only representing cities, universities, the young; Anglesey is now conservative; Emma Dent Coad has lost: so has Jo Swinson; running through the results, Conservative gains in all sorts of unlikely places, including Sedgefield. The world has been turned upside down.
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The world has been turning upside down for some time, a result of diminishing sophistication and the rise of isolationism and jingoism. William Waldegraves treatise is a stark warning
In A Different Kind of Weather ? Charles
What a disastrous night! Seats that didn’t elect a Tory throughout the 20th century did so last night, like my own former seat in Stoke-on-Trent, where all three seats went Conservative. When I became the MP in 1983, 61 of the 62 seats on the Council were Labour !
The only glimmer of good news was that Johnson’s Victory speech was easily the best he made in the campaign, indeed the only decent speech he made.
Yes, a somewhat different tone, after an apparently incompetent, but, in retrospect, highly disciplined campaign. Charles
I can hardly believe the result, what a dark day for the UK.
In A Different Kind Of Weather was a pleasant read, but I was referring to Three Circles Into One, which makes reference to the problem of a divided society that will linger for some time and prove difficult to address in a meaningful way.
Thank you. Charles
A solid majority behind Johnson is the least bad outcome as at least it ends both ungovernment and Corbyn, if not Corbynism. My prediction is that Johnson, a practiced DU(P)mper, will dump the ERG (and Trump) and de facto stay in the Single Market (EU takes 45% of exports) in order to get the trade deal with the EU completed in the impossible timeline of a year. A softish Brexit.
Dear David, Glad to have this glimpse of optimism (or maybe realism). Happy Christmas ! Charles