Thank you, United Kingdom!
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My Dear Friend of Democracy,
The Labour Party won a landslide in yesterday's United Kingdom general election.
This is good news. While electorates in other countries are shifting to the right, with many voters supporting far-right parties, British voters elected a party on the centre-left.
Labour, with its party leader Keir Starmer, won without promising the moon. Actually, Labour's views are not that much different from those of the Conservative Party, also known as the Tories, which has ruled the country for 14 years.
Mark Landler, London bureau chief of the New York Times, recently wrote:
"Labour is not proposing big tax increases. It has vowed no major spending hikes until Britain cuts its runaway public deficit. It has scaled back its ambitious program to curb climate change. It would maintain Britain's military support for Ukraine in its war with Russia."
✊ This is what we can learn from last night: Change of power is possible these days without populists and extremists coming to power. Thank you for that, UK!
See you in Europe,
Johannes
I support your Thankyou note to the UK electorate!
At the same time we need to take note why it was possible to show the conservatives rhe door. The did not heed what I would call the PIS 1 lesson: To stay in power a national populist party has to take immediate control of the media, the judiciary and place its own people in key positions of public life.
That seems to be working well for Orban.
PIS 2 tried vut in the end was not successful.
In the US Project 2025 is the preparation for a quick implementation of this lesson if Trump gets elected.