“C’mon, this lot are half the world away from their homes, stop crying your heart out they’ve worked hard t’get here. Now some might say well what about balancing t’bloody books but listen lad they’re ‘ere now. Don’t look back in anger - y’won’t live forever. Wonderwall. Oasis”
Goodbye Keir Starmer. Once described as “The walking embodiment of Human Rights Law”, he was elected as a sensible technocrat pledging to stem the tide of populism and ousted as a censorious technocrat unable to stem the tide of populism
Total ideological victory of Bukeleism in Latin America achieved. Problem now is lots of new presidents have to actually govern competently - region has a history of retard right leaders and not everyone can be Bukele. Botched implementation may discredit Bukeleism if not careful
Some of new right neo-caudillo wave like eg Noboa and Paz have achieved less impressive results than Bukele thus far sadly. Note while Bukeleists are a reaction to failures of the left pink tide in 00-10s LATAM this was itself reacting to failures of older retard right leaders
Abelardo de la Espriella and Keiko Fujimori will face hurdles more similar to Noboa in Ecuador than Bukele in ES. Colombia and Peru too especially have a history of militant right regimes that have been responsible for killings - which primes the left there against you even more
Cuba finally cracks - situation on ground was a shitshow. Begs the question, if you want to decisively end a regime is it better to bomb it or slowly wind it down with incremental political and economic reforms? You could get Cuban Communism with Chinese Communism characteristics
Even the Chinese Communist Party says “time to wind it down.” Was genuinely taken aback at the dysfunction when I visited, impressed in a way too that it was still going
One problem is there are Cubans who are still fairly dedicated to communism. Cuban culture mythologises communism - it is linked to national identity for many. Not enough that most wouldn’t prefer some change but enough these sentiments will still hang around politics and culture
The aesthetic for Andy’s Labour to win is ‘The North with Oasis Characteristics’ + ‘Pink Pantheress Britain’. This is rhetorically ‘Lovely’ enough to hold off populism. Then don’t go crazy with migration, drop any ‘woke’ still left and do 90s nostalgia with multicultural elements
Andy Burnham should hold a 10 year anniversary of the Manchester bombing memorial concert ‘Against Hate’ and invite the best of ‘The North’ + ‘Pink Pantheress Britain’. Oasis, New Order, Arctic Monkeys, Pink Pantheress, Dua Lipa, Skepta etc. ‘Loveliness’ would be off the charts
This is much more appealing than hysterical screaming ‘Gay Race Communist’. Whether they have enough self control to do this is different question. Would be a killshot if they could while ‘the right’ continues on its current trajectory of self-implosion and becominglame-ification