The United Kingdom shamelessly prostrated itself at the feet of Donald Trump on Wednesday, throwing a lavish welcoming party for his state visit to Windsor that resembled less diplomacy and more fealty.
In doing so, the U.K. has revealed something deeply unflattering about itself—in the scramble to keep America close, it will debase itself and its values completely.
It will silence dissent, empty out its traditions, and rent out its monarch like a sex worker, deployed to flatter the ego of a man who has spent much of his political life suggesting he should be treated like one, a monarch, not a sex worker, that is.
As stage props go, the monarchy is unbeatable. But if this is what the “special relationship” between the U.S and the U.K. now means, it looks to many in Britain less like a partnership and more like groveling, feudal servitude.
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Wait, you think green party isn’t left leaning? They gained seats last election with their 2 million votes. who’s to say they are not a mainstream political party
I was a member of the Green Party back when I lived in Britain (about 5 years ago) and can confirm they’re left leaning. In fact back then (a year or so before Corbyn) they were the only left of center party in Britain with MPs.
At least the members tended to be middle class well intentioned in multiple ways (not just environmentally but also socially) types, but oh so naive (at least in my eyes, as I had a totally different background plus had spent a lot of time there in the seedy underbelly of that country - the Finance Industry, which is pretty much Sociopaths’R’us - hence felt they had a very gentle view of things which was quite ignorant of the life of the working class there).
If you want to pin down their ideas to an actual ideology, they were Social Democrats and Environmentalists.
Mind you, the party had only 2 MPs back them (on the vote of 1 million people, so they got only less than 0.3% of MPs on the vote of 2.5% of the electorate, almost 5% if you only count cast votes) because Britain two has the anti-Democratic First Past The Post system.
In a place like The Netherlands (which has Proportional Vote) they would’ve had between 7 and 14 MPs (depending on abstentions) with the votes of that proportion of voters and if the Tweede Kamer had 300 MPs (which it doesn’t) like the British Parliament.
They gained seats, yes, but 4 seats isn’t exactly a landslide. They’re a force in local politics, but at the national level, they’re just really not a major player - at least not yet
The next election will be split between Labour, Cons, Reform and Greens.