{"id":337,"date":"2019-09-04T12:40:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T11:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/?p=337"},"modified":"2019-09-04T12:40:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T11:40:13","slug":"realignment-spotted-in-mainstream-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/2019\/09\/04\/realignment-spotted-in-mainstream-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Realignment spotted in mainstream media"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Telegraph opinion piece by Dr Stephen Davies<\/a> of the Institute of Economic Affairs appears in the Telegraph<\/a> titled: “An early General Election will confirm the total realignment of British politics”.<\/p>\n

If and when this happens, this will be a realigning election. The Conservative Party would seek a mandate to leave the EU even if this meant leaving without a deal. Faced with this, a significant number of Conservative MPs will either leave politics or run on a separate ticket, probably with a deal with the Liberal Democrats and Greens. This alliance will be founded on an explicitly remain platform, placing the Labour Party under enormous pressure to adopt the same position – though it is not clear what Jeremy Corbyn will do. <\/p>\n

The Conservative Party will then become the representative of one side of the new divide; both the party of leave and a kind of British nationalism that rejects the EU\u2019s supranational politics. (Electoral incentives mean this will not be as straightforwardly free market as many suppose).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile a new kind of centre left will be emerging on the opposite side. There will be a clearly Remain-oriented bloc of Lib Dems, Greens, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and dissident Conservatives, that supports the supranational politics of the EU and a different vision of Britain\u2019s identity and place in the world. If the Labour Party is not very careful and lucky it will be caught between these two new poles and the election will truly realign British politics. This will shape our history for decades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can see why the opposition does not want an election. They don’t know what to do<\/a> with one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Telegraph opinion piece by Dr Stephen Davies of the Institute of Economic Affairs appears in the Telegraph titled: “An early General Election will confirm the total realignment of British politics”. If and when this happens, this will be a realigning election. The Conservative Party would seek a mandate to leave the EU even if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}