I don't know, there have been some hiccups. But I think May is handling it quite well. Things seem to be going smother for them than I expected.
On the party political level maybe, but they've not even started negotiating yet and the rest of the EU is already putting the pressure on.
Yes, until the negotiations begin its quite difficult to make many judgments I think.
In presentation terms, yes. But not in concrete terms.
I think what's needed is a focus. Then around that you can start to build an ethos. This is what happened in the indyref. But also in every successful movement you can think of. Take the Black Panthers as an example. Once they had a momentum they built an ethos round that. And with that came practical things like breakfasts for school kids and so on.
No offence but sorry the above is precisely what I was talking about when I said a focus on the "the left" wasn't helpful, indeed actually harmful.
you can see a fight coalescing around the NHS. I've a badge somewhere, a little one 'Save the NHS' from a campaign nearly as old as I am. When danny was talking of the fight for $15 lot and where things could firm up similarly I thought of that, most people know how expensive private is. They looked at the option when lil jonny was ill or mum needed a new hip. Its why they play political football with it every election.
This is spot on. And sadly we spent the time since the result in as much disarray as the ruling class, bogged down with what were - in practical terms - divide and rule interventions from liberals.
Maybe not for you but its changed a lot for a number of my friends and family.
The impact is really for another thread, though. This is "what is to be done?" (borrowing far more from Comrade Lenin than I'm comfortable with).
it'll be close but I don't think it a nailed on UKIP win, not least because of Eddie Hitler claming to have been the fourth magi present at the birth of christ yet hitherto unmentioned in the holy books
Look at the world around you. It's as inevitable as the tide coming in.
Good thread idea.
It's possible but after Nutall's antics not that possible UKIP could nick it but I doubt they would get re elected at next GE. UKIP caused brexit. logically Farage should be centre stage in the negotiations. Instead he has slunk away & even during the campaign Tory leavers did everything they could to disassociate themselves from UKIP. People just want quiet lives. They don't like extreme politics. I would guess most people find the far right quite frightening & with good reason. I think UK politics will carry on as it always has with Tory & Labour as main parties. The Lib Dems will probably come back eventually with a few more MPs like they always do & UKIP will fade away. I would guess even loony Clacton will return a Tory in 2020. I doubt Carswell will get in again.
Not really. Listen to what people want. As Dottie says, defending the NHS might be a good place to start.
The initial point of focus just needs to be something people are already doing, already concerned about, that isn't being imposed from outside the class. There isn't a magic formula. But once there's momentum we want there to be a myriad of self starting, mutually supportive struggles. Maximum antagonism between us and those who give orders but amongst ourselves a politics that is complementary and mutually reinforcing.I remember back in the early days of the IWCA the plan being to literally door knock and ask people...
There must be a more efficient way in these tech days?
...and then how do we make that a different focus from "Focus" style focus (iykwim)?
Round me the Greens already do this kinda stuff, with some success.
But, but...
...I'm struggling here
