…has finally decided in favor of Brexit.
This is good news, both in the win of a party that finally wants to be responsive to the people, and in the loss of the party of socialism and anti-Semitism.
Not a lot of time or energy for any further analysis, given that I got up at 5 AM (2 AM PST) to catch my flight to be back home today, but it seemed like quite a great week for Trump overall. In fact, even the impeachment charade in the House may be part of his good week.
[Friday-morning update]
American leftists thought that Corbyn’s inevitable victory would be their model.
Good luck with that. 🙂
[Update a few minutes later]
Mark Steyn says “Boffo Boris.”
[Update a couple minutes later]
All the Brexit defectors lost their seats.
The good news just keeps rolling in.
[Update a couple more minutes later]
No, Boris is no right winger. Well, Trump isn’t really a conservative, either.
Well, I used to read Boris in the Spectator. He seemed right wing enough, and still does, certainly compared to Cameron, still more May.
Though he never seemed the moralizing or hard-fiscal type, so he’s probably been the best placed to recognize that the issues he needs to focus on have moved on from the 80s.
That guy on the the link has it right, I think, but it’s still worth noting that attitudes toward spending on the NHS or schools should never have been ceded by the Tories. I remember the 70s and 80s and the issues Thatcher needed to focus on and why, but she ceded ground and failed to spend enough time on the fronts where the left was building its strength. It’s not all about spending cuts anymore.
Interesting that all the party defectors lost their seats. Too bad, in some cases. Frank Field was pretty solid overall.
I wonder if this victory is at last a cap to the issues of the last decade, and indeed the EU issue of many decades, as suggested by the apparent defeat of not only Labour but of the Tory Europhiles. The Tories got their biggest vote share since 1983 and a serious majority of seats, only their second in this century, Labour has its smallest share of the Commons since 1935, the Tories will soon have been in power a decade one way or another and yet just got a serious shot at governing, solo, in a new era for the first time.
Interesting futures possible, presuming Britain actually doesn’t just collapse.
Off topic, but I remember you doing commentary a few years ago on the group of NASA linked scientists who opposed space colonization on various left grounds like anticolonialism, environmentalism, and feminism, but I can’t remember any names. Was Dr Chanda Prescod one of them?
I remembered this in extremely vague outline recently when Razib Khan did a good post on vaguely Marxist threats to science, past, present and future, contrasting them with the more limited and brief challenge of ID. I think of this sort of thing when some colleagues bang on about comparative trifles like flat earth.
To paraphrase Boris a bit:
“It appears the UK will be Corbyn neutral by 2020.”
It won’t be totally Corbyn free, as he will still be a back-bencher in the opposition having won re-election to his Islington seat.
It would be so appropriate if Boris brings opera glasses to the next PM question time, saying:
“…And lastly, I just want to address the right honorable member of the opposition from Islington, Mr. Corbyn, to say that we remain respectful members of this parliament even after this election. Now where is he? (raises glasses). Ah there you are!”
It’ll be interesting to see if someone adopts the Corbyn model of inevitable victory anyway. He probably wasn’t doing it right, right?