Sadly, that is probably for the best. Brits should get what they voted for and it would appear, despite everything, a majority are STILL voting for leftist parties.
We have reached a point where there simply may not be enough productive people remaining for conservatives to win elections in some Western countries. The US is close to that situation too.
As bad as things have gotten, and a majority of Brits still vote for the left? Quite a sorry commentary on the state of the United Kingdom really. If in 1979 Britain had the same population of people as it does today, someone like Thatcher could probably never have been elected.
“...As bad as things have gotten, and a majority of Brits still vote for the left? Quite a sorry commentary on the state of the United Kingdom really...”
Yes, it is a sad commentary. This short article at City Journal explains it quite well. http://www.city-journal.org/2010/eon0507td.html
Especially this line, which applies to both the Greeks and the Brits: “...It is true that the Greek politicians are much to blame for the current situation, and no doubt many of them are thieves; but their real crime was not stealing, but offering a substantial proportion of the Greek population a standard of living that was economically unjustified, maintained for a time by borrowing, and in the long run unsustainable, in return for votes...”
I'm something of an Anglophile and have been for years.I've traveled to Britain on a number of occasions and regularly read their papers and watch the Parliamentary debates..None of this makes me an expert (to say the least) but I'm somewhat acquainted with the country and her politics.Acquainted enough to declare that Mrs Thatcher could *never* be elected there today.Nor could Churchill.Hussein could...easily.Britain is a post- Christian,post-morality,post-"work ethic" nation.She is *thoroughly* European...in every sense of the word.