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Not many incumbents have survived the post covid landscape, so this doesn’t come as a huge surprise. Given this knowledge I expected labour to go out swinging, and take a chance on a more radical policy platform. Unfortunately, they seem to water down everything to appease everyone and it begins to feel like a status quo platform. Exactly the opposite kind of message for an electorate with an ever diminishing standard of living, desperate to try everything (even siding with far right populist policy) to dig themselves out.
Yea, a genuinely interesting take on Trump’s win was that single term Govts are the new normal.
As to why, that’s likely a whole discussion, but some hand wavy accelerationism shit show captures the energy sufficiently I’d say.
I’m not following international politics, but I’ve recently heard of the situation in Germany, and that seems on track to follow the same trend.
Canada too. It's very close in polling for their upcoming election.