'admin' pid='78307' datel Wrote:What happens when 17 million people get the feeling they’ve been cheated? That will be the most profound question in British politics, not just in 2017 but for many years to come. As the broken promises of Brexit pile up one on top of the other, so that they are visible from Sunderland, from Great Yarmouth, from Newport, what will the leave voters do then? The pledges I mean aren’t the ones about how £350m will flood each week into the NHS, or those others that came out waving a Pinnochio-sized proboscis. I’m thinking of the promises that went far deeper. The vow to “take back control”. To stop being the human punchline to someone else’s macroeconomic joke. To – as our north of England editor Helen Pidd wrote last week – no longer live on crumbs, while others in London enjoy entire loaves. The Brexiteers were explicitly offering voters a once-in-a-lifetime shot at changing the status quo. And before embarking on what has otherwise been a stiff-backed, fixed-grin, try-hard few months at No 10, Theresa May got it, promising “people voted for change. And a change is going to come.””
Maybe the more definitive paragraph follows:
"Except change, in our new prime minister’s dictionary, just means more of the same. Admittedly, it is only six months into Year Zero and Britain is yet to start disentangling itself from Europe. But whatever is promised – hard or soft, red white or blue – it’s clear that the terms of Brexit will be dictated by Donald Tusk, Angela Merkel and the other 27 members of the EU, rather than by our dream team of May, Boris Johnson and David Davis. We can also see much else of what the next few years will bring. The economic plan for the rest of this decade has been laid out by Philip Hammond, and it equals austerity-lite – but for even longer. The forecasts for wages and living standards are in, and they indicate Britain will suffer its first lost decade since Karl Marx was alive."
My thoughts immediately go to the nominations and appointments by P.E. Trump. While wildly proclaiming how bad our generals are he promises to appoint generals to head our civilian defense and intelligence departments. Following a campaign railing at every stump against Clinton's taking speaker fees from Goldman Sachs Trump starts and continues to hire GS executives to fill major cabinet posts. And then there is Obamacare Insurance associations are finally speaking up about the coming debacle should Trump fulfills his campaign promise to demolish Obamacare, leaving many millions of Trump voters and their families without insurance even while promoting an unfunded promise to continue coverage of expensive pre-existing conditions. Just how long will it be until Kentucky voters realize that "Kentucky Care" is just the local label for Obamacare. And then the nomination of creationist Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency following Trump's campaign promises in New Hampshire to provide "crystal clean air and water" while simulatneously pledging to abolish the USEPA.
God only knows where this all is going but the US certainly appears to be following Brittain down the path of sophistry and a lost decade. Like the Brexiteers, Trump's core supporters are in position to be hurt the most.