Its
seemingly quite clear that whatever Donald Trump does or has donwe or
however many punchups occur within UKIP that it will make no
difference to the maiority of people voting that way. The liberal
elite of the Blair ,Brown and Cameron years have made sure of that.
Their market based economies have ensured that governments gan do
less and less in society and in the economy. The cult of
privatisation has destroyed the project that irrespective of class,
culture, colour and country an individual could rise in society to do
whatever they wished. The UKIP project as is the Trump project a
desperate attempt to gain an identity for the dispossessed and the
excluded. The expert is no longer trusted because of the centerist
doctrines of the market and the price mechanism, the revolt is
heavily male, we could call it a “Victor Meldrew” revolt . We
know that in the UK 60% for UKIP is in the 55 plus age group, in
America the majority of Trump support comes from males over 45.
The
elite must realise that gesture politics is no longer believed. That
pandering to limits of free movement of people will not work. People
who are concerned about immigration see it for what it is. Marine :e
Pen said quite simply “ Why accept a copy..when you can have the
original?” There can be no pandering to racism but what there must
be is an explanation. It is vital that the left gets across the idea
of stopping the arms trade, dealing with the concerns of the “left
behind” of the globalised economy, the consequences of climate
change and war around the world.
Its
also quite clear that women, the young and many people from an
ethnicities will never succumb to the simplistic message of Farage
and Trump but the jury is out and we do not know the way the verdict
will fall. On my face book page I had this comment yesterday...it
illustrates the problem of perception surrounding Trump and
Farage..it said this ….”.I
wonder what Trump comments in a locker room or sexuality has got to
do with leading a country and make vital decision on World's foreign
policy “.
This clearly a different paradigm that we are dealing with. Brexit
occurred because so many the EU as a project of the elite and brexit
was shaped by the nationalists and the right.
An
old friend of mine used to say that monotheism is imperialism in
religion. And Jeanette Winterson said that writers were either
priests or prophets. The late Tony Benn said that politicians were
were either weather cocks or sign posts. Perhaps the monothieism of
neo-liberal economics is giving way to polytheistic patchwork of
community activists, ecosocialists and decentralists, perhaps the
prophets of this new way are Jermy Corbyn, Caro.ine Lucas and others.
Perhaps the priests who maintain that old religion of
neoliberalism and austerity are individuals like Tony Blair, Gordon
Brown, John Major. When I look at th shark skinned priesthood I cant
tell if I am looking at old members of New Labour, the Liberal
Democrats, the Conservative Party or a significant proportion of the
SNP or Plaid. I worry that the Corbynistas are not as well organised
as tne old Bennite left and will have circles run around them by the
old dinosaurs I have seen in Local Constituency Labour Parties like
Neath and Aberavon. On question time last tear I heard Steven Kinnock
claim support for Trident, yet he was unable to say in what
circumstances he would use Nuclear weapons. All he would say is he
believed in them because he had once lived in Europe. These
individualds are the Wizards of Oz, all smoke and mirrors and no
substancee. The central core of all these individuals is the
unpalatable truth that the market is the god and the price mechanism
is the basis of their catechism. I am sick of this approach never has
their been more need for thr signposts and the prophets....
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