It's becoming increasingly clear that the old two-party system in the UK is over.
Flip-flopping support between Conservative and Labour will become a thing of the past as voters become desperate to support new people with new ideas.
As Dominic Cummings puts it:
[https://dominiccummings.substack.com/p/snippets-16-what-comes-after-starmer]
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It’s finally clear even to some of the blindest in SW1 that both old parties are disintegrating, with failed leadership and their voters fragmenting all over the shop (but not to each other). It’s pitiful watching the old regime die, unable to muster any sort of coherent anything on anything. Unable to tell a story. Less than one percent able to give a serious speech or write a serious essay or even do a three hour podcast without exposing themselves as empty/idiotic/useless. Uninterested in even pretending to be interested in policy and how government works and the extraordinary things happening across the world. Unable even to pretend to campaign, because a campaign means defining then maintaining focus on priorities, which has become inconceivable in SW1. Unable to master the 75 year old TV technology and unable to execute the basics of 1990s media management, never mind the new technologies shattering the media ecosystem. |
Unlike the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s when a dramatic turn towards 'democracy', encouraged by the West, ended up ruining millions of ordinary people's lives, making a few people very rich and paving the way for a saviour like Putin, the death of the old regime in the UK is slow, relatively under the radar and barely discernable to most people who carry on buying overpriced houses, leasing overpriced cars and paying for overpriced energy.
Powell's 'rivers of blood' are more likely to turn out to be death by a thousand cuts.