In my fifty years living here, I never saw two main political parties in such turmoil, being eaten away with infighting, Conservative moving to Right and Labour to extreme Left where Jews, Hindus and other ethnic minorities feel unappreciated under leadership of unpredictable Jeremy Corbin who has made Labour unelectable with 80% MPs in open revolt. Yet Labour is being flooded with Left leaning members enjoying unprecedented surge in membership in living memory.
Michael Gove, an arsonist turned fireman and his associates used popularity of Boris Johnson with electorate to win Brexit referendum, then promptly stabbed him in the back in one of the most brutal betrayal ever witnessed in British politics, putting in shade even turbulent Indian politics where such a scenario is not uncommon! Boris who surrendered so meekly has lost his invincibility and our respect. How come decent leaders like John Major, George Brown, Michael Hazeltine and Neal Kinnock have lost their influence? Could British politics ever regain its sense of fair play? Let us hope Teresa May will provide stability and Labour under new leader effective opposition that is the hallmark of true democracy or are we heading for “Banana Republic” type democracy?”
Bhupendra M. Gandhi
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