Politics has become an adventure holiday: white-water rafting with Brexit, bungee jumping with Trump
New UK prime minister can't afford to be too cautious when it comes to tackling the issues raised by Brexit . Photograph: Niall Carson/WPA Pool/Getty Imagesis halfway to defying the conventional wisdom that successful politicians campaign in poetry but govern in prose. Starmer campaigned in dull, functional prose. He must now find a way to complete the contradiction and inject some poetry into his government.
There are many reasons for this. The vast wealth created by globalisation and new technologies has been hoarded by small elites. The question of who will pay to tackle thehas generated profound economic and social tensions that democratic states are struggling to mediate. The neoliberal assault on welfare states has undermined public services as bearers of the common good. Migration and identity politics have challenged the notion of a collective “us”.
But apart altogether from the innate contradiction of trying to get rapid economic growth without dealing with Britain’s most egregious self-inflicted economic wound, Starmer really should be thinking a lot about Brexit and specifically about why it had such a powerful appeal for a majority of his compatriots., got more than four million votes. The forces that upended British politics in 2016 are regathering themselves in slightly different forms.
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