Posted on 05/08/2021 8:33:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The rise of Donald Trump’s brand of populist nationalism in the presidential election of 2016 was foreshadowed in Great Britain approximately five months earlier, when British citizens voted by a margin of 51.9 to 48.1 in favor of the referendum on withdrawing from the European Union — later coined as “Brexit” — making Britain the first country to ever withdraw from the EU after 47 years as a member of it and its predecessor organization.
The Brexit referendum was opposed by both major parties in Great Britain — the conservative Tories and the liberal Labour. Nevertheless, a coalition of politically conservative and blue-collar labor voters came together to form a majority, and Brexit was passed.
David Cameron, the leader of the Tories who opposed the referendum, resigned as Prime Minister. Theresa May was elected by the new Prime Minister in March 2017 but was unable to move the negotiations forward with the European Union to reach an agreement for withdrawal. Further unrest in Parliament led to the collapse of May’s governing majority and new elections were held in January 2019.
The far more populist and conservative Boris Johnson led the Tories to victory with a majority of 80 seats in Parliament and announced that Great Britain would be exiting the EU on December 31, 2020, whether an agreement was reached with the EU or not. The election outcome turned on the same coalition of voters that passed Brexit in 2016 — traditional political conservatives and blue-collar workers formerly part of the Labour party coalition from the more industrialized parts of Great Britain.
Under quasi-communist Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, the British left has mirrored the descent of the Democrat party, and now is the home mostly of urban, leftist wokesters and minorities, which in Britain has become mainly migrants from North Africa and the Middle East.
Great Britain went back to the polls on Thursday for the first time since the election in January 2019 that made Boris Johnson Prime Minister, and the results have been devastating — for Labour.
British election results tend to trickle in slowly over a few days’ time, and that feature will likely be made worse this year by COVID. But one early result shows that the Tories have captured a seat that Labour has held since 1974. The Tory candidate won the Hartlepool seat by a near 2-1 margin, in an industrial region on the northeast coast of England that has traditionally been the heart of Labour Party territory.
The Tories are also winning numerous seats on Councils in areas long controlled by the Labour Party. With 131 of 143 Councils now having reported results, according to BBC, the Tories have increased their numbers by 236 (out of an overall win of 2138), with Labour losing 293 Council seats to drop to only 1248. The Tories have gained control of 12 additional Councils. bringing their total to 58 compared to only 44 controlled by Labour, with some of those still in doubt.
These results show the electoral potency of the conservative/populist/nationalist coalition that Pres. Trump organized by opposing the establishments of both the Democrat and Republican parties in 2016.
Setting aside the particulars of the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, it seems obvious that if you attempted to fill two halls with two different subsets of voters — those who voted for Pres. Trump but are glad that Joe Biden won, and those who voted for Joe Biden but wish now they had voted for Pres. Trump — the hall with the latter subset of voters would fill up much faster.
That dynamic is going to drive the 2022 midterm elections for Congress.
The Biden Administration is making the same mistake that the Obama Administration made in 2009-10.
Obama faced a significant economic crisis, not of his making, that resulted from the housing crash in late 2008. But rather than focus all the efforts of government on solving that problem, the Democrats — in control of both Congress and the White House for the first time since 1994 — decided to pursue the laundry list of policies demanded by liberal interest groups, starting with Obamacare.
That pursuit of radical left-wing politics resulted in a crushing defeat for Democrats in the 2010 mid-term elections, from which the Democrats and Obama never recovered.
History is repeating itself. Biden is faced with an economic crisis, not of his making. While paying lip service to efforts to address the problem, his Administration is actually pursuing policies that are making it worse. At the same time, they are taking advantage of the fact that they control Congress and the White House for the first time in 10 years to pursue another laundry list of policies that appeal only to the most liberal political interest groups.
The elections in Great Britain are showing that the coalition that was formed to pass Brexit remains politically dominant. That is the same coalition that supported Pres. Trump. Whether Pres. Trump returns to politics or not, the political forces he unleashed are not going away.
The Biden Administration is not learning the lessons that history teaches.
One big difference - the UK does not have ballot harvesting or mail-in ballots. Nor does the UK have Dominion as their voting system. WE DO.
I’m not inspired by Boris “Al” Johnson the King of Lockdown’s victory.
Its creepy to see a party that has been so authoritarian on COVID fining protest organizers 10 thousand dollars and hauling people off the streets, raiding churches and so on do so well.
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The 45 percent or so support the Conservative Party enjoys in the UK right now is the same level the National Socialists had in Germany after the Reichstag Fire in 1933.
Bingo !!!
I totally agree. In addition, I no longer trust more than a handful of the Republican House & Senate members. Less than 10%. I seriously think the parties have already agreed on which races the Republicans will “win”.
America pretty much has a one party system.
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Today Scotland voted the lefties in by even more seats. Probably will leave UK soon.
The republican party has betrayed us basically since Goldwater every chance they have had the only reason they bear any consideration is nowadays the Democrat party is completely lost it’s like Reagan who you brought up said he did not leave the Democrat party the Democrat party left her there are no conservative left in the Democrat party the last one was probably Zell Miller
As a southerner who grew up hearing relatively close hand recounts about republican party reconstruction I’ve never been a fan of the party itself but rather certain individuals like Magness and Gold water and Helms and so forth
the republican party always seems to be held prisoner by the liberal to moderate wing of the party starting from its inception with the radicals Who along with the fire breathers in the Democrat party some of whom I descended from foisted enormous bloodshed upon this nation which should’ve been avoided so no I don’t worship the Republican Party like most here
I’ll be the first to admit I believe the time now is to do somethin different and it should be led by Donald J Trump who is by the way a YankeeJust in case no one has noticed but the irony is those here who worship the Republican Party are for the most part never Trumpers or were
That is not a coincidence
British Prime Minister Carrie Symonds is lighting the way for 2022 GOP wins?
RE: British Prime Minister Carrie Symonds
What ever happened to Boris Johnson?
He got sick, so she took over. Happened in the U.S. in October 1919. This seems more extreme.
The GOP has the business and banking interests in mind all successful “mainstream” political entities in the world ultimately do regardless of the Left-Right drama created by their propaganda machines and front groups.
Never Trumper Glenn Beck saying that “woke” Coke was coming around and backing down this week saying the listeners helped to make it happen. He seemed to be kissing up to them IMHO.
I’m not sure if any politics is the solution this is the world the Higher Authority gave us. I respond to it with truth lying is on the Top Ten list of “the Lord” but where’s racism or even abortion on that list.
Neither is right but they are reflections of breaking Top Ten items.
Donald Trump is the Wild Card of politics and he has my support for being that alone although he is showing no signs of a new political party at this moment.
Boris Johnson was very reluctant to do all of that, but he came under pressure from every quarter, including public opinion, to impose a draconian lockdown after being accused of being complacent earlier on and not doing it.
He did it, but he didn’t want to do it. At least he is a man of libertarian instincts who wants to get back to normal as soon as he can, a Labour PM would probably have had to have the powers given to him by the crisis prised out of his hands.
He is already in trouble for allegedly saying “He would rather let the bodies pile up than impose another lockdown” in a cabinet meeting. Heresay evidence of course, but if it is true it goes to show the kinds of pressures he was coming under to do what he did.
The trend in the UK is downward before Mr. Johnson his predecessors social liberalism banning of Michael Savage and handling of Tommy Robinson paving the way for the Johnson Junta.
David Cameron and Teresa May cut from the same cloth.
Yeah UK conservatives are not particularly conservative. Perhaps a little bit on economics, but not at all on social issue.
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