We do, but not in the same total way conservatism is in the UK. In some ways it is I guess, since they seem to be the party which wants to leave the EU and be more independent. But thanks for answering my post. Appreciate it. I was looking for a productive answer and you gave it.
" If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.." - Abraham Lincoln
“ The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to - prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms..” - Samuel Adams
They certainly didn't. We're still living the end of the British Empire. After the handover of Hong Kong, they tried to build a new role in the world as America's wingman. They got burned in the Iraq War (which they really went over the deep end with in lamenting as a mistake). And ever since then it's been cuts and rollback of it's global role and domestic political goals. Cut everything, defend the NHS. Financial crisis pushed it further, and now we're seeing the final bit of the original British Empire finally contract.
Brexit, in retrospect, is inevitable. The United Kingdom never decided what it wanted to be.
Who knew sticking with a proven loser who couldn't beat Theresa May and the fields of wheat would turn out to be an absolute fucking disaster?
Oh wait, most of us, but well done the far left who were too stubborn and in love with their idealogical purity bullshit to do the right thing and step aside.
You have handed the Tories five years with a huge majority. Well fucking done.
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he has to, if the exit poll is right and the experts think its looking that way, and with labour down in both remain and leave areas in vote share. so they cant say it was "just about brexit", nope theres no chance, if he dosn't step down your heading into party split territory which would be the death of the labour party just as it killed the liberal party as the main opposition in 1922.
theres already labour MP's calling for corbyn's resignation on twitter.
The assumption being that a 'centrist' or 'Blairite' candidate would have been better? Forgetting of course that it was that wing of the party who moved Labour away from it's traditional positions and initiated the divide between Labour and it's traditional base?
Labour are fucked. They have no base and no sensible way to build one any time soon. Whichever way they move they'll lose more than they gain. Coupled with the Tory's plans to gerrymander constituency borders they are not winning any elections anytime soon.
The biggest loser in this election however is not Labour, it's environmentalism. There was lots of noise made about it during the campaign, ongoing climate strikes have pushed the issues further up the agenda all year and the British people have proved that frankly they don't give a shit. At this point climate change isn't a problem of IF, it's barely a problem of WHEN now, it's a problem of HOW BAD.
they lost it because of the financial crisis, and the right wings big push on blaming immigrants and also over the iraq war.
and they only just lost there majority, the cons had to make a coalition with the lib dems.
191 seats is a labour massacre of which there is no excuse or other way to take it. its not even in the same league as the slim losses they had under the center left.
Reports are Blair's old constituency is going blue.