Rob Watson

Horses hooves there and it's London, the gentle sound of rain. And let's hear a little of what the king had to say when he spoke from inside the House of Lords. An increasingly dangerous and volatile world threatens the United Kingdom. Every element of the nation's energy, defense and economic security will be tested. My government will respond to this world with strength and aim to create a country that is fair for all.

It's quite an extraordinary spectacle in British politics because you have the juxtaposition of the extraordinary and rather familiar and I suppose to some people reassuring pageantry of the state opening of parliament where you have the king coming in a gilded carriage to parliament to read out the speech saying what the government will do with all of the sort of pageantry that we all know. So that sort of stability contrasting that.

with the astonishing shenanigans going on within the governing Labour Party, because it is now looking more likely than less, because we've heard from allies of Wes Streeting, who's the health minister, that he will indeed challenge Keir Starmer for the leadership of the Labour Party, possibly as early as tomorrow. So what a contrast. The glitz, the pageantry, the stolidity, if you like, Celia, and then all the uncertainty of the governing Labour Party. Yeah.

Tämä on tullut eteenpäin Keir Starmerin takia, koska Labour on käsitellyt kaupungin ja Ruotsin ja Ruotsin valtion eleksejä viime viikolla. Se on ollut kaupungin jälkeen, koska Labour on tullut eteenpäin vuonna 2024. Sen jälkeen kaikki on mennyt väärin. Yleisö on käsitellyt Keir Starmeria. Tämä on todellinen animus hänelle. Se on todella animus hänelle.

And they feel that the change that they were promised after 14 years of conservative government simply hasn't happened. And so that has therefore led everyone in the Labour Party to say, what on earth do we do? Now there are of course some who back Keir Starmer's argument that it would just look nuts to the world and to the country if Britain had a seventh prime minister in 10 years. But there are those like Wes Street who think, no, no, no, we must act.

But there are others too who will also perhaps challenge the prime minister. But I mean that's the nature of the crisis. Labour not sure who should be leading them and in what direction.

Tapahtuipa kerran, että pessimisti, optimisti ja saletisti suunnittelivat tapasiltaa. Ja niinhän siinä kävi, että saletisti onnistui.

I think the view inside the governing Labour Party is that Keir Starmer has been finished for some time even before these disastrous election results. There's been a view that his position is unrecoverable in the longer term because he's so unpopular within the party but also in the country. So then the question is always, well, if he's not going to lead Labour into the next general election in 2029,

When does he go? So there is a question as to whether these disastrous results will bring that moment forward a bit. And the answer is that it's hard to say. There doesn't seem to be any precipitate move against him right now, although of course there have been calls for his resignation.

but there is a sense that maybe the party will wait, because the problem holding them back from moving against Keir Starmer is, who would you put in his place? I mean, if the Labour Party could unite around a single candidate, I think Keir Starmer would be gone much sooner rather than later.

jota teillä on myös Norjan-Irlannissa. Suurimmat osapuolet ovat osapuolet, joiden unelmat tulevat elämään yli Yhdysvaltojen ulkopuolella, joten se ei ole välttämättömyys, mutta ehkä kysymyksiä devolutiivisesta, lisäämistä, ja jos haluat, keskustelua.

So I think you just can't overstate the importance of the results that we've been looking at. I mean, they really do seem to represent a crumbling of the old order. And what I mean by that is the domination by conservatives and Labour of Britain's political system, both at a local level but at a national level for the last hundred years. Now, people might say, well, is that a flash in the pan? Perhaps conservative and Labour will come back and that...

the populists of the green and reform and others will somehow slip back. But I think that may be wishful thinking on behalf of the big parties because the forces that are driving the success of the smaller parties and which are damaging Labour and Conservatives look unlikely

to go away because those forces and you see them in other developed countries voter anger at the system a lack of trust in politicians anger at the stagnation in living standards and the growth forecasts in britain are pretty dismal a sense that nothing works proper anymore what you might call cultural and identity concerns so that's things like immigration and social cohesion and a widespread sense that people just don't have much control over their lives

And that has led to anger against the established parties who've been running this country for the last hundred years, Labour and Conservative, just as you've seen that in other developed countries. And it seems immensely unlikely that those forces, if you like, are going to be addressed in the next three years. So absolutely, we could, at the next general election in 2029, be seeing a fragmentation of British politics, British politics looking more like the politics of other continental European countries with violence,

Luulen, että yksi näkökulma 10 on se, että ainoa tapa tehdä sitä tällä hetkellä on tuottaa ja näyttää, että ihmisten elämät tulevat paremmin, että he tuntevat paremmin ja yritetään laajentaa seurauksia. Mutta tietenkin on ideologisia keskusteluja Labourin puolesta. Jotkut haluavat nähdä se jatkuvasti enemmän vasemmalla puolella, jossa on enemmän hallituksia, jossa on suurempia lainsäädäntöjä. Tämä on todellinen ongelma, joka sopii Labourin. Tämä voisi toimia, vaikka Keir Starmer olisi muuttunut joku muualle.

is that essentially the kind of hand that any new leader would be dealt with is a tough one. Britain is a country with low growth, with high levels of debt, high levels of taxation, and high levels of social dissatisfaction. So whoever took over as leader, it's pretty much a poison challenge. And one other thing that I just add into the mix, there was one poll before these elections which suggested that 67% of British people think this is a country heading in the wrong direction. So this is an unhappy

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