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April 13, 2025 Vol 19

The Guardian View in Labor’s Brexit Hesitancy: The collapse of Tories and Farage fills the void | Editorial


OFor the past 15 years, British politics has been defined by the intensity between goals and practicality. The right leads to the theory, which is strengthened by a supporting press, but insists on implementation. Meanwhile. That may not be a flaw in itself, but the poll suggests that it has not won voters.

But Labor’s difficult stance did not benefit the Tories. Broken by their time in the office, conservatives appear to be fading to disagreement. They failed to address the central flaw of capitalism: without the government’s intervention, wealth would accumulate for those at the top while many feel abandoned below. Instead, Tory Chancellors pursued the policies of austerity, deepening social division and fences on the disadvantage that led to the disaster of voting to leave the EU.

This week, Sir Keir Starmer became the first British leader to attend a meeting at the European council since Brexit. The irony for labor is that the closer relationship with the EU will benefit from Britain and more popular, however they also strengthen the understanding that doing the work represents the status quo, which aligns it sephorically with a high level of immigration . It plays in Nigel Farage’s hands.

Mr. Farage, despite being the center of Brexit’s ongoing damage, escaped to blame. Never been in the government, the former city businessman continued to think as an anti-establishment uprising. He also pressed his anti-immigration stance, maintaining the issue of his political issue. His increase reflects a broader fact: voters do not always punish the frustration – they vote based on identity and frustration. Mr. Farage is taking advantage of it today by the contention of Brexit is being reached by the political class, not its clear contradictions.

On Tuesday, a poll showed the reform in Mr Farage that reached labor as Britain’s most popular party. This is despite his long history of inflammatory rhetoric. Elections often change who has the power, but the direction of the policy is not required. Throughout Europe, the population’s right is the weapon climate action, which describes green policies as burdens driven by elite to the working. Mr. Farage kidnapped this, calling for the scraping of net zero targets. The conservatives, under Kemi Badenoch, seemed to follow.

Instead of inspiring confidence, labor offers false certainty – indicating that little will change. This leads to conflicting messaging, such as suggesting that flying from Heathrow will be easier while continuing to explore North Sea oil, without addressing how to meet Britain’s carbon promises. As a remembrance is the Labor welfare reform plan, which focuses on attaching benefit fraud. In an attempt to protect itself from right attacks, labor risks hurt weak individuals and not motivated to target beneficial claimants while greater fraud are unnoticed. It also applies to a narrative that ultimately implies its own reform rhetoric about “scroungers”.

Political justifications change depending on who will benefit. Brexit was a former people’s revolution, then an undeniable mandate. Now that this is not famous, politicians avoid opening the debate again. But Brexit shadow will not be lost on its own. Labor cannot only manage the status quo. To defeat Mr Farage’s sham politics, it must offer more than technological management. Without a compelling vision, including one for the British area in Europe, it is dangerous to be – outflanked – both by history and by a movement developed in anger, not solutions.

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Thora Simonis

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