I understand you are tired with your local representative, MP, mayor or any other politician, who only makes false promises. Life is not getting easier, and they offer no concrete nor sustainable help for your daily challenges like employment, wages and quality of life. But thoroughly assess the candidates and your life decisions-- one wrong vote, and the cycle will either continue or worsen.
For instance, you are in the United Kingdom, many Conservatives campaigned for the country to leave the European Union and then took the helm after the 2016 referendum and Brexit more than three years later. The pandemic period rule was a disaster, with then-prime minster Boris Johnson embroiled in the lockdown party scandal, and the reign of his successor Liz Truss lasting for 49 days after messing up with the nation's economy. Rishi Sunak fares no better, and his plan to bring migrants entering the country through unconventional manners to Rwanda was met with criticism from his opposition, human rights activists, and the international community. All for maintaining the majority in Parliament like reinstating the mandatory national service and delaying the polls, but the party is already a sinking ship, and its rival Labour is leading the pre-election polls.
But not all would vote the biggest opposition party; some will keep their right-wing alignment, while others find themselves disillusioned with the country's biggest political forces, so they resort to the farther-to-the-right Reform UK under Nigel Farage, a staunch Brexiteer. He plans to run in Clacton-on-Sea, where Reuters interviewed voters who plan to vote him. One said "I feel like he's more normal. He understands us"; "I think he represents the working class a lot more than general politicians do. I mean, they're so out of touch with the working class", another said. But one concern is that one of them do not know his policies; he preferred Vladimir Putin in the war in Syria, helped propagate antisemitic canards regarding philanthropist George Soros, and believed that Ukraine would have not been invaded if Donald Trump were still president of the United States. He would put UK into isolation, but even if he is aware of his party's inability to win July's elections, the party now at the third place in opinion polling suggests a threat to a possible Labour government, that if it were to also underperform like the Tories, Reform will seize the opportunity to win in a future general election.
Whereas there are those skeptical of both Labour and Conservatives and align to the right, there are also those who align to the left; former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, for instance, who was ousted from the party after an investigation finding rife antisemitism within and his failure to address it, is now independent. Another one is George Galloway of Workers' Party of Britain, an anti-Israel politician like Corbyn but more questionable for being supportive for Putin, the Communist Party of China, Bashar al-Assad and the Iranian regime, as well as backing Farage during his 2019 European election campaign. He won the legislative by-election in Rochdale last February, signalling an increased threat posed by populists who espouse more extreme views.
If far left and far right parties forge an unholy alliance (which is not impossible) in a future general election and are able to defeat the two major parties as well as the Liberal Democrats and the Greens, it will cause further isolationism, less multilateralism, and less power for rules-based order (especially given the fact that the country is one of the superpower nations), worse than the UK's post-referendum and post-Brexit performance in the international community, and similar to how America suffered during Trump's rule. In turn, there will be no improvements in the British economy, and therefore quality of life will not better.
Some lessons to look include the United States, as well as India since 2014, the Philippines since 2016, and El Salvador since and Brazil in 2019. Populist rise and democratic backsliding will promote global insecurity and disorder and will affect global economy and addressing poverty in a comprehensive and sustainable manner. Instead of getting solutions, going instant will produce problems.
I understand you want your issues to be solved. Think! Haphazard life choices will worsen these.
Article posted on 20 June 2024, 17:17 (UTC +08:00).
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