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Joe Biden and Keir Starmer: The Unacceptable Faces of The Center-Left
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2024 is nearly upon us.
And for once in a very long time, the British and American general elections will be happening almost simultaneously.
The last time that this happened was when Lyndon Baines Johnson was President and Alec Douglas-Home was Prime Minister in 1964. The former won and the latter lost to Harold Wilson of the Labour Party.
You could make a compelling case that our world is a much more fractured and unstable place than the last time general elections overlapped in the leading English speaking nations and no, I haven’t forgotten about the Cuban missile crisis of 1963, when Russia stationed nuclear weapons in America’s backyard.
And it is against the backdrop of immense uncertainty that the electorate on both sides of Atlantic, will be deciding whether to swing madly to the right or stick to the current arrangement.
In Joseph Robinette Biden, America has a senile octogenarian, whose hands are soaked with the blood of those innocent Palestinians, who have been slaughtered by the IDF and one whose record on the economy has been average at best and non-existent at worst.
The case for rewarding the 46th President with a second term is one which is getting weaker by the day and we shouldn’t be surprised if the likes of Joe Manchin — no spring chicken himself — decides to throw his hat into the ring to win the nomination of the Democrat party.
There’s a fair chance that Trump could be the next American president.
In the United Kingdom, the conversation isn’t whether the Conservatives are going to lose or not, but how massive the defeat is likely to be.
In thirteen years of Conservative rule, we have had austerity, Brexit, poor leadership on Brexit and the pandemic, which have led to hundreds of thousands of needless deaths and there is the soaring living costs, which has plunged millions of Brits into poverty and desperation.
Any illusions that folks might have had about Boris Johnson and his intentions, have been irrevocably shattered with the events of 2020–2022.
