Patrick Murphy: Britain is broken and all the king’s men won’t put it together again |
THE collapse of Britain’s economy and society has now been reflected in its politics.
That’s the main lesson from the English local government elections and the parliamentary elections in Scotland and Wales.
They show that the traditional carve-up of power between Labour and Conservative has largely collapsed.
In England it has been replaced by a multi-party culture. In Scotland and more particularly in Wales, it has strengthened nationalism.
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Britain is not just broke financially, it is now broken in so many different ways.
Like Humpty Dumpty, all the king’s horses and all the king’s men will be unable to put it back together again – especially since the monarchy itself is now more unpopular than ever and the British army is at its lowest numbers in over 200 years.
The outcome has been that in political terms, Keir Starmer is a dead man walking, English local government has swung massively towards Trump-style politics, and Scotland and Wales have distanced themselves even further from London.
Welcome to shattered Britain.
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