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Elon Musk and his increasingly virulent platform X have managed to do a great deal to promote and apparently legitimize the views of far-right extremists and criminals.
While keeping themselves at safe distances, Farage, Tate, Yaxley-Lennon and their allies succeeded in mobilizing an army of hate-fueled extremists.
While Sir Keir must be breathing a massive sigh of relief that the Far Right failed to secure its expected victory in France, he will surely be waking up in the middle of most nights in cold sweats at the thought of a Trump triumph in November.
The Conservative party’s shift to the right since Brexit doesn’t currently appear to have helped their long-term electoral prospects any more than their sleazy conduct or their economic incompetence.
As he assumes his place in the Downing Street pantheon, Sir Keir will need to regain his capacity to stand by his beliefs and to take calculated risks, if the country is ever to escape from its current sorrowful state.
It looks like the people might at last be about to run the clowns right out of town.
At some point, it felt that Mr. Sunak had lost control not only of the political narrative but also of his own people.
The notion that the Tories might represent to anyone the possibility of vital, fresh, new hope, rather than clanging echoes of a disastrous past, would seem to be the greatest delusion of them all.
Already 20 points behind Labour in the polls, this month’s local election results showed that the Conservatives were, as leading psephologist John Curtice supposed, in “deep trouble”.
Liz Truss's seven weeks in Downing Street had begun when she was formally invited to take on the role by her namesake, Queen Elizabeth II.
