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Sorry. Sorry I\u2019m late. Sorry I\u2019m late. I\u2019ve not been to mattress but. Wahey! No, I haven\u2019t been partying. I\u2019ve been working. I\u2019m an expert. In contrast to American information organizations, right here within the U.Okay., I feel you\u2019ll discover us journalists are a bit of bit extra balanced. Wahey! Oh God. All proper. Let\u2019s do that. After 14 years of Conservative rule, the Labour Get together have resoundingly received the U.Okay. election this morning, leaving the Tories with their worst defeat ever\u2014 I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m simply going to do this once more with no smile on my face. Sorry. I\u2019m an expert. [PHONE RINGS] Properly, the outcomes are nonetheless coming in. Hey. Dum, dum, dum, one other one bites the mud. It\u2019s a massacre. It\u2019s an absolute massacre. For six weeks, election fever has hit the U.Okay. In the primary, all very boring and predictable. A person with no coat getting rained on versus a person falling into the water versus a person with a bin on his head. You understand, the same old. However the individuals have spoken. Meet our new prime minister. Sure, it\u2019s fifty shades of beige, Captain Whitebread, Sir Keir Starmer. \u201cChange begins now.\u201d By no means heard of him? Don\u2019t fear, neither have we. If he was a vegetable, he\u2019d be a potato. However a bit of bit of lifeless and boring is strictly what the physician ordered. That\u2019s if you will discover a health care provider left within the U.Okay. that isn\u2019t on strike for a good and respectable wage. [PHONE RINGS] Oh. That is brutal. That is just like the opening of \u2018Saving Personal Ryan\u2019. I\u2019d nearly really feel sorry for them…in the event that they weren\u2019t significantly terrible individuals. This morning\u2019s Labour landslide bucks a global development, a powerful rejection of right-wing populism…sort of. Sure. While nations like Italy, Hungary, France, and Germany are having passionate amorous affairs with right-wing populism, and in America, you\u2019re significantly contemplating a second serving to, right here within the U.Okay., we\u2019ve been in an abusive relationship with it for some years. It started in 2008, when the unregulated greed of funding bankers introduced western economies to their knees. The Tories took workplace in 2010. And prime minister David Cameron declared, \u201cwe\u2019re all on this collectively\u201c, earlier than implementing brutal austerity on the nation\u2019s poorest individuals. Resentment and anger took maintain. And populism thrives on little else. Then Brexit, which gave all the perimeter voices of british politics a mainstream platform with which to vow the world with out concern they\u2019d ever need to ship. That\u2019s how populism works. It guarantees the moon, and as an alternative, it fingers you a DVD copy of \u2018Apollo 13\u2019. Quickly, the Looney Tunes who bought us the concept within the first place, have been working the asylum. First, we acquired Emperor Palpatine\u2019s cleaner, Theresa Could. She knew Brexit was crap, however she went together with it anyway. And he or she didn\u2019t final lengthy. Then, Boris Johnson, populism on steroids, a person whose M.O. is barefaced lies and wild-eyed incompetence, while wanting like he\u2019s combed his hair with a [BLEEPS]: kettle. Then, Liz Truss, populism on smack, with \u00a345 billion of unfunded tax cuts for probably the most rich, which swiftly crashed the financial system, tanked the pound, and despatched everybody\u2019s mortgages by way of the roof! It wasn\u2019t a lot trickle-down Reaganomics, extra [BLEEPS] down from an incredible top\u2014onomics. She lasted simply six weeks in workplace. [PHONE RINGS] Oh, Liz Truss, former P.M., has simply misplaced her seat. Good riddance! Then, simply as you thought you\u2019d run out of entitled, incompetent morons to run the nation, it\u2019s multi-millionaire hedge fund supervisor, Rishi Sunak, the U.Okay.\u2019s richest prime minister ever. We had lastly come full circle, with Britain being ruled by financial terrorists and catastrophe capitalists enabled by a political class of grifters and ambulance chasers, blaming immigrants and poor individuals for all of the nation\u2019s woes, while sucking out each final morsel of marrow out of the naked bones of the rotting corpse of the state. 14 years of Tory populism and austerity, and what have we acquired to point out for it? The british financial system has flatlined. Actual wages are decrease than they have been a decade in the past. A 3rd of british youngsters stay in relative poverty. And there are extra meals banks than there are McDonald\u2019s. Our well being care system is in tatters, our social care system is in tatters, and rapists are being spared jail as a result of the prisons are full. I imply, that is an extinction stage occasion for the Tories. It\u2019s a bit like a extremely unhealthy \u2018Jurassic Park\u2019 movie… a bit just like the final \u2018Jurassic Park\u2019 movie. So while Keir Starmer could also be as charismatic as a lukewarm block of unseasoned tofu, going again to a centrist, socially-left-of-center, fiscally-right-of-center social gathering run by a potato, looks like a radical shift. Boring is the brand new radical. Unradical is the brand new radical. The reality is that Starmer can\u2019t be radical. There\u2019s no cash left. However not promising issues you already know you may\u2019t ship is in itself a rejection of populism. Sadly, Labour are promising nothing. Studying Labour\u2019s manifesto is about as inspiring as while you overlook to take your cellphone with you and it’s a must to take a dump while studying the again of a bottle of bleach. Labour\u2019s tax and spending pledges are minuscule, lower than even the Tories have been promising. And therein lies the issue. When the system fails the individuals, the individuals help politicians who promise to burn the system to the bottom. Enter stage proper: Nigel Farage, about as reliable as an unlicensed butcher. You will have seen him speaking at Donald Trump\u2019s rallies. Farage has been a uniquely unhealthy scent in British politics for some years. His Reform social gathering might have solely received a handful of seats final night time, however Farage has already anointed himself the unofficial chief of the opposition, with many pundits saying he may very well be our subsequent prime minister earlier than our new prime minister has even sat down at his desk and acquired his pens out. Starmer ought to beware, as ought to the likes of Joe Biden. Simply \u2018not being the opposite man\u2019 isn\u2019t sufficient. If Starmer can’t flip the tide, and shortly, saving our public providers from the brink of collapse while placing extra money into working individuals\u2019s pockets, in 5 brief years, populists will likely be poised to take over the nation once more. Keir Starmer could be a step in the precise course, or he might merely signify a keep of execution. If that\u2019s the case, the U.Okay.\u2019s political panorama has by no means seemed so bleak. Properly, that\u2019s miserable. 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