Sorry. Sorry I’m late. Sorry I’m late. I’ve not been to mattress but. Wahey! No, I haven’t been partying. I’ve been working. I’m an expert. Not like American information organizations, right here within the U.Okay., I believe you’ll discover us journalists are a bit bit extra balanced. Wahey! Oh God. All proper. Let’s do that. After 14 years of Conservative rule, the Labour Occasion have resoundingly received the U.Okay. election this morning, leaving the Tories with their worst defeat ever— I’m sorry. I’m simply going to try this once more with out a smile on my face. Sorry. I’m an expert. [PHONE RINGS] Effectively, the outcomes are nonetheless coming in. Hey. Dum, dum, dum, one other one bites the mud. It’s a massacre. It’s an absolute massacre. For six weeks, election fever has hit the U.Okay. In the primary, all very uninteresting and predictable. A person with out a coat getting rained on versus a person falling into the water versus a person with a bin on his head. , the standard. However the folks have spoken. Meet our new prime minister. Sure, it’s fifty shades of beige, Captain Whitebread, Sir Keir Starmer. “Change begins now.” By no means heard of him? Don’t fear, neither have we. If he was a vegetable, he’d be a potato. However a bit bit of lifeless and boring is precisely what the physician ordered. That’s if you will discover a health care provider left within the U.Okay. that isn’t on strike for a good and first rate wage. [PHONE RINGS] Oh. That is brutal. That is just like the opening of ‘Saving Non-public Ryan’. I’d nearly really feel sorry for them…in the event that they weren’t significantly terrible folks. This morning’s Labour landslide bucks a world pattern, a powerful rejection of right-wing populism…type of. Sure. While nations like Italy, Hungary, France, and Germany are having passionate amorous affairs with right-wing populism, and in America, you’re significantly contemplating a second serving to, right here within the U.Okay., we’ve been in an abusive relationship with it for some years. It started in 2008, when the unregulated greed of funding bankers introduced western economies to their knees. The Tories took workplace in 2010. And prime minister David Cameron declared, “we’re all on this collectively“, earlier than implementing brutal austerity on the nation’s poorest folks. Resentment and anger took maintain. And populism thrives on little else. Then Brexit, which gave all the perimeter voices of british politics a mainstream platform with which to vow the world with out concern they’d ever should ship. That’s how populism works. It guarantees the moon, and as a substitute, it arms you a DVD copy of ‘Apollo 13’. Quickly, the Looney Tunes who bought us the thought within the first place, have been operating the asylum. First, we acquired Emperor Palpatine’s cleaner, Theresa Might. She knew Brexit was crap, however she went together with it anyway. And he or she didn’t final lengthy. Then, Boris Johnson, populism on steroids, a person whose M.O. is barefaced lies and wild-eyed incompetence, while trying like he’s combed his hair with a [BLEEPS]: kettle. Then, Liz Truss, populism on smack, with £45 billion of unfunded tax cuts for probably the most rich, which swiftly crashed the financial system, tanked the pound, and despatched everybody’s mortgages by means of the roof! It wasn’t a lot trickle-down Reaganomics, extra [BLEEPS] down from a fantastic top—onomics. She lasted simply six weeks in workplace. [PHONE RINGS] Oh, Liz Truss, former P.M., has simply misplaced her seat. Good riddance! Then, simply as you thought you’d run out of entitled, incompetent morons to run the nation, it’s multi-millionaire hedge fund supervisor, Rishi Sunak, the U.Okay.’s richest prime minister ever. We had lastly come full circle, with Britain being ruled by financial terrorists and catastrophe capitalists enabled by a political class of grifters and ambulance chasers, blaming immigrants and poor folks for all of the nation’s woes, while sucking out each final morsel of marrow out of the naked bones of the rotting corpse of the state. 14 years of Tory populism and austerity, and what have we acquired to indicate for it? The british financial system has flatlined. Actual wages are decrease than they have been a decade in the past. A 3rd of british kids stay in relative poverty. And there are extra meals banks than there are McDonald’s. Our well being care system is in tatters, our social care system is in tatters, and rapists are being spared jail as a result of the prisons are full. I imply, that is an extinction degree occasion for the Tories. It’s a bit like a very unhealthy ‘Jurassic Park’ movie… a bit just like the final ‘Jurassic Park’ movie. So while Keir Starmer could also be as charismatic as a lukewarm block of unseasoned tofu, going again to a centrist, socially-left-of-center, fiscally-right-of-center get together run by a potato, appears like a radical shift. Boring is the brand new radical. Unradical is the brand new radical. The reality is that Starmer can’t be radical. There’s no cash left. However not promising issues you may’t ship is in itself a rejection of populism. Sadly, Labour are promising nothing. Studying Labour’s manifesto is about as inspiring as while you neglect to take your telephone with you and it’s important to take a dump while studying the again of a bottle of bleach. Labour’s tax and spending pledges are minuscule, lower than even the Tories have been promising. And therein lies the issue. When the system fails the folks, the folks assist politicians who promise to burn the system to the bottom. Enter stage proper: Nigel Farage, about as reliable as an unlicensed butcher. You’ll have seen him speaking at Donald Trump’s rallies. Farage has been a uniquely unhealthy scent in British politics for some years. His Reform get together could have solely received a handful of seats final evening, however Farage has already anointed himself the unofficial chief of the opposition, with many pundits saying he may very well be our subsequent prime minister earlier than our new prime minister has even sat down at his desk and acquired his pens out. Starmer ought to beware, as ought to the likes of Joe Biden. Simply ‘not being the opposite man’ isn’t sufficient. If Starmer can not flip the tide, and shortly, saving our public providers from the brink of collapse while placing more cash into working folks’s pockets, in 5 quick years, populists will probably be poised to take over the nation once more. Keir Starmer could be a step in the proper route, or he could merely signify a keep of execution. If that’s the case, the U.Okay.’s political panorama has by no means appeared so bleak. Effectively, that’s miserable. I used to be in an excellent temper once I acquired right here.