Perhaps it is just me but does anybody else think that the political debate in England is now becoming not only tedious but also with such a bitter divide that we are in serious danger of becoming a nation split into two rival camps ?
On the one side we seem to have a vocal left wing that is prominent on social media and makes a lot of noise but seems to be almost powerless and a right wing that seems to be cowed from expressing what it truly thinks but actually gets out to vote when it matters and is increasingly looking likely to dominate the actual results, as opposed to the debate, around English politics ?
Has it ever been thus ? Or has this last election fragmented English politics (and that is without the impending boundaries changes) in a way that nothing else seems to have done for a long long time ?
It strikes me that the left is dominated by people who don't actually like the 'English' very much and seem to make no bones about it. Have the left, in the course of the growth of this almost visceral loathing of the English, actually sealed their own fate to the political wilderness or are they simply playing the long game with their hopes pinned on future waves of immigration or the tribal loyaltys of 2 and 3rd generation migrants eventually over-whelming what could be (clumsily) described as the indigenous population ?
On the one side we seem to have a vocal left wing that is prominent on social media and makes a lot of noise but seems to be almost powerless and a right wing that seems to be cowed from expressing what it truly thinks but actually gets out to vote when it matters and is increasingly looking likely to dominate the actual results, as opposed to the debate, around English politics ?
Has it ever been thus ? Or has this last election fragmented English politics (and that is without the impending boundaries changes) in a way that nothing else seems to have done for a long long time ?
It strikes me that the left is dominated by people who don't actually like the 'English' very much and seem to make no bones about it. Have the left, in the course of the growth of this almost visceral loathing of the English, actually sealed their own fate to the political wilderness or are they simply playing the long game with their hopes pinned on future waves of immigration or the tribal loyaltys of 2 and 3rd generation migrants eventually over-whelming what could be (clumsily) described as the indigenous population ?
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