Prime Minister Rishi Sunak departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, March 13, 2024
POLITICAL parties are fragile creations. The centrifugal pressures of personality clashes and policy divisions can, in tranquil times, be contained.
Britain’s first-past-the-post (FPTP) election system has evolved to insulate the Westminster political machines from a direct reflection of the class forces at play in the nation as a whole, but, as Madonna has it in George Harrison’s song, “We are living in a material world.”
Thus in any living organism or social construct, when internal cohesion breaks down, as it has done in the Tory Party at present, the scum floats to the surface.
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT
The left must avoid shouting ‘racist’ and explain that the socialist alternative would benefit all
