LONDON Even if U.S. firm Colonial Pipeline restores supplies by the end of this week, the ransomware attack that hit the pipeline supplying 45% of East Coast…
It’s tempting to conclude that most countries simply have inbuilt conservative or centrist majorities but it begs the question as to whether voters who don’t strictly consider themselves the proletariat have ever been offered a good enough reason to vote consistently for a social democratic or Labour party.
The question is even more urgent now that nobody seems to know anymore what it means to be working class. The masses, whoever they may have been, have melted away into mobile phone-led online universes, primed for marketing and consumption, rather than workers’ revolutions.
Most commentators agree that European social democratic parties have been in search of an electorate at least since the 1980s. The increased appeal to middle class voters by the Third Way parties of the 1990s, in the UK, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands among others, is now seen as at best having slowed the decline and at worst having laid the basis for the current dire situation by diluting core l
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Britain’s first MP of Palestinian heritage told the UK Parliament her “heart bleeds”, as she read out names of some of the children killed in Gaza and Israel.
“Ibrahim Al Masry, 11. Marwan Al Masry, 6. Rahaf Al Masry, 10, and Yazan Al Masry, aged just two,” Layla Moran said on Wednesday, as the UK government was summoned to the House of Commons to give its position on the violence.
“These are some of the names of the children killed this week, and last night an Israeli child was added.
“My heart breaks for them … my heart bleeds for Palestine, for Jerusalem, the city of my family, for the worshippers attacked by extremists at the Al Aqsa Mosque on the holiest night of Ramadan and for all innocent civilians – Israeli and Palestinian”, Ms Moran said.
Tony Blair: Without total change Labour will die The Labour Party needs complete deconstruction and reconstruction. Nothing less will do. The challenge facing Britain’s Labour and Liberal Democrat parties cannot be overstated. Political parties have no divine right to exist and progressive parties of the centre and centre left are facing marginalisation, even extinction, across the Western world. Where is the French Socialist Party of François Mitterrand or the German SPD of Willy Brandt? And dominant national parties can very quickly become small fringe parties under the hammer blows of poor leadership and social and economic change. Look at the Liberal Party of Asquith and Lloyd George, reduced from 397 to 43 seats in just 18 years in the early 20th century.