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These have undoubtedly been the wildest 72 hours in French politics in my lifetime. Pretty incredible stuff.
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— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) June 13, 2024
Apparently things are a bit hectic in France, the left have formed a popular front (including the “Socialist” Party), while the republican party has descended into chaos over whether to bloc with the national front, whilst other right wing parties descend into infighting: maybe Macron has wrong footed everyone.
With the French voting system, it means the New Popular Front should make it to the second round (I believe top 3 go through in Parliamentary elections).
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This list includes ‘left independents’
Edmund Griffiths has put together this table of left candidates in UK general elections:
https://edmundgriffiths.com/leftge.html
I’ve culled our record our (I can’t get tables to work here, so I’ll have to use an image).
Ed Griffiths has done the work for find the aggregate left (of Labour) votes all the way back to 1841:
https://edmundgriffiths.com/leftge.html
@imposs1904 indeed it is, but, erm, younger. Strange way to see Mrs McCluskey…
Another series:
Edward Woodward, a slightly more right wing dystopia (he’s a people smuggler in the first episode, helping people escape Grim Britain to go to a better life!) The second series ends with a Thatcher-alike leading the liberation against the big state: it was Billed as 1984+6 years…
Finally made it all the way through: I particularly enjoyed Arthur Lowe as the slippery Prime Minister.
I’ve just run across another cracking series:
The Guardians, Britain falls to a military coup…
Possible row back on the Starmer quote:
“Asked if he would use that word to describe himself, Sir Keir told the BBC: “Yes, I would describe myself as a socialist. I describe myself as a progressive. I’d describe myself as somebody who always puts the country first and party second.” (reported in the Telegraph).
Seems our stern letter did the trick: he’s gone. That’ll learn them: you don’t mess with the Socialist Party….
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‘“And this also,” said Marlow suddenly, “has been one of the dark places of the earth.”’
There is an interesting argument to be had about the role of antiquity and the imaginary Roman Empire in justifying the British Empire (and today it emerges in some of the fash right who look back to Rome).
The Wall did not ‘keep the barbarian’s out’ – I read somewhere it was as much about tax and regulating trade as anything. Likewise, ‘unconquered Scotland’ forms part of the imaginary ideology of national identity that is worth picking at a few threads of.
