Boris Johnson's March to Downing Street continues. I doubt that there is anyone much surprised that Jeremy Hunt has proved to be an inept opponent.
Johnson is apparently planning to make the ‘UK match fit' for Brexit on 31 October. If ever there was evidence that the man does not understand sport, politics, commerce or the EU that proves it. Nothing can ready the UK for such an outcome in the time now available.
And meantime we see Labour immersed in its own rows, cloaked by indecision on Brexit and non-disclosure agreements on anti-Semitism, both of which indicate a failure of leadership on its part.
Which has left Dominic Grieve trying, yet again, to fight a battle in Parliament to force it to sit in October, meaning it cannot be prorogued during that month, so providing a chance for MPs to oppose Brexit. At least he is trying.
Whilst Rory Stewart is planning for a parallel parliament to sit during the autumn so that MPs can debate if the government seek to deny them the chance to do so as No Deal Brexit approaches. He has admitted it all feels rather like the 1640s. And maybe that is right. But when the most basic duty of Parliament is to defend the best interests of this country and we have a government in office that appears dedicated to doing anything but that it may be that desperate measures are required.
I look forward to this autumn with some dread. No one knows what will happen in desperate days.
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I’m not sure about the 1640s, but much of what is going on in political circles seems to me to have resonances of the earlier Tudor period. It often felt that Margaret Thatcher was leading us back to the ‘golden age’ of the Victorians, and that was bad enough, but to be dragged back to the glory days of King Harry and his querulous offspring is beyond depressing.
I still say that the Marxists are right – what we are actually seeing however is an uprising/revolution albeit in the form of the Alt-Right and a un-hinged Tory party who have revived the Royal Prerogative exclusively for themselves to ensure their survival and a pact with the Devil – not a general uprising guided by socialist principles.
In that sense, the neo-liberal infection of the Left as you point out elsewhere seems to have enabled this to happen.
This is why it is crucial for Labour or the Left to get its head around PQE, MMT, GND. If you want to counter fascism, the Alt-Tight and rich boy Toryism, you have to use money (investment) to do it.
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