Always Beware of the Right
The Polls are predicting a Labour landslide and Reform UK siphoning votes off the Conservatives. We should beware of believing the former and be concerned about the latter
Big entrances in political history, good and bad, start in small cameo appearances that few notice, and those who do, do not see it for what it is. Clement Attlee was not a charismatic figure whom people saw as a future Labour leader when he was first elected to Parliament in 1922 and indeed, when he stood for the Labour leadership in 1935, many saw him as a boring caretaker leader, not knowing he would not only last twenty years in the role, but would redefine both the Labour Party and the country. With the Conservatives, Margaret Thatcher was noticed, but not until it was too late did her opponents, including those in her own Party, see her as the formidable person she was.
I am not for one moment comparing Nigel Farage with Attlee and Thatcher. Farage is a grifter, and given his friendliness to Trump one would question his political morals, but he does know how to talk to some groups of people in the UK and come across as one of them, in spite of his privileged background. It’s the curse of decent people in both business and politics, the spiv being popular.
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