no more gimmicks, lies
self-serving self-obsession …
elected to serve!
From the opinion piece, The arrogant, reckless Tory government left behind a mountain of mess. In one week, we’ve begun to clear it by newly elected Brit PM Keir Starmer where Mr. Starmer writes, “Now is the time for politics as public service.
A government committed not to its self-preservation but to uniting the country in the shared mission of national renewal.
The start of the road back to restoring people’s hope and faith that politics can be a force for good.
No more gimmicks, lies and self-serving self-obsession – this government knows we have a duty to the people we are elected to serve.”
In the book Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign (Crown, New YorK, 2017) Jonathan Allen writes, “Interestingly, both Bill and Hillary were paying attention to British politics. In 2015, when conservatives thrashed the liberal Labour Party, Hillary confided in aides that former prime minister Tony Blair had predicted to her that the left would lose if it ran a “base” election. She appeared to worry about being drawn too far to the left, rather than seeing the conservative takeover as an affirmation of nationalistic populism. Bill believed the push for Brexit—and its eventual approval by voters— showed a strong contempt for existing power structures that reflected the mood of the American electorate. You guys are underestimating the significance of Brexit, he told Brooklyn and his own advisers over and over.”
Maybe once again, our Brit cousins are pointed a path.
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