@nise_yoshimi Of course they do. The 1970's was hell for people like them. Lower orders answering back and everything. Watch the sitcoms from back then. 'Good Life', 'Fawlty Towers'.
You can smell the frustrated entitlement.
@flying_rodent 2/ do his bit.
But there needs to be people around Polanski to do theirs. Otherwise, the threat remains. Burnham will have to keep pretending to be a reformist Social Democrat.
Until either people stop believing him, and he goes the way of Keir Starmer. Or in a fit of...
@ExStrategist@mattzarb 2/ after. Regarding the Establishment being spooked. With Starmer getting the boot. With Labour being told categorically. Get someone in that's got some authoritarian Centrist Dad of the worst order.
That we know.
@ExStrategist@mattzarb 1/ But that begs the question. What happened prior to Gorton and Denton? Why did The Greens have this massive expansion? Both in active membership and polling? How were they able to pull off that win at Gorton and Denton? Who was ultimately responsible?
As for what happened...
@ExStrategist I can't imagine you were too happy. Having to jettison Starmer. Having to take a back seat. Realising once again, the country at large hates your guts.
That Labour is only genuinely popular when it has an actual human being running things.
@selmerapido@LukeTryl@fharris2011 4/ (Veterans of the 2010's) could win elections. That was it. Something else needed trying.
That something being Andy Burnham. Him succeeding is another matter. So many variables. So much that could go wrong. So many people that wish him ill.
Starting with that old mate of...
@BareLeft Which has sparked a civil war on The Right. Seeing as how many have poured so much into Farage. They're not going to write off their investment quite yet.
@fharris2011@LukeTryl Simple. It showed the UK Establishment that killing the Post 2008 Left was impossible.
That because the material conditions were so different for those born after 1980. Be they economic, social, or otherwise. The old rules no longer applied.
'The 1970's' no longer ended things.
@Telegraph You mean what will happen if/when war criminals come face to face with the families of their victims? Because that's what it's about.
Continuing Israel's impunity. By any cost.