Machiavelli
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Well?
this is a maxim of British politics. many other countries are biased towards left or right politics.
Perhaps the centre ground is shifting and is no longer being defined by an amalgamation of elites who have assumed their world view is set in stone.
Perhaps not. Elites will inevitably rise to the top whether by dint of birth or transmogrification from ardent pleb to comfy establishment figure.
They will but the current elites/establishment seem to be losing their grip. No bad thing imo.
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Hmm ... the US election has just been won by a multi-millionaire son of a multi-millionaire: little sign of the elites losing grip there. The UK PM is someone who has spent nearly 20 years in the shadow cabinet or cabinet and, as the Oxford-educated daughter of a vicar, couldn't be much more establishment if she tried.
France will be interesting: the current odds-on favourite is someone who has been at the centre of politics for about 40 years, If he doesn't win, there may be some indication that there's a revolt against the elites but I'll only truly believe that when the CDU or SPD don't win in Germany or when Corbyn is standing outside No 10.
What the US does show is that it economic success doesn't bring electoral success. The Democrats were riding on high following quarter after quarter of economic growth and steadily falling unemployment. Conventional wisdom is that economic competence breeds success - that no longer holds true
Hmm ... the US election has just been won by a multi-millionaire son of a multi-millionaire: little sign of the elites losing grip there. The UK PM is someone who has spent nearly 20 years in the shadow cabinet or cabinet and, as the Oxford-educated daughter of a vicar, couldn't be much more establishment if she tried.
France will be interesting: the current odds-on favourite is someone who has been at the centre of politics for about 40 years, If he doesn't win, there may be some indication that there's a revolt against the elites but I'll only truly believe that when the CDU or SPD don't win in Germany or when Corbyn is standing outside No 10.
What the US does show is that it economic success doesn't bring electoral success. The Democrats were riding on high following quarter after quarter of economic growth and steadily falling unemployment. Conventional wisdom is that economic competence breeds success - that no longer holds true
Has he borrowed the coat Holloway got soaked in at the Amex ?
'Fraud so!