The big tragedy, for me, of Labour's total wipe-out, is that I found I didn't care very much.
I stayed up last night until about 2-ish, obsessively watching the car-crash of the Euro-results coming in. And I just didn't feel what I should have felt ...
So. Is this because Labour really has lost it's purpose and meaning as a party? Ceding it's (diverse) historical constituencies to the BNP, SNP, Greens etc. while the swinging centrists go back to the Tories to carry on the Thatcher/Blair project as usual?
Or is this lack of purpose and difference just a myth that the media has managed to convinced me of?
I'm worried about what all of this anti-EU sentiment will lead to.
ReplyDeleteYeah. Me too.
ReplyDelete(Still coming up with a reply to your last comment in previous discussion. Keep checking back there.)
Nice note at the end there. I keep swinging wildly between wanting to improve democracy, and getting as far away from it as possible.
ReplyDeleteI think interest in politics depends entirely on the attitude of those running the system, and if it takes a few right-wing votes to induce a badly-needed shake-up in how we see "democracy", then so much the better. Politics is caught dangerously between "leaders" who are at least *perceived* to be incompetent, and a very active section of the populace who don't believe that the structure of politics hold any relevant answers any more.
One thing's for sure though - the sooner we get away from a broadcast media approach to it all, the better. Harrumph.