Whilst We Wring Our Hands In Glee

The recent events surrounding the collapse of Johnson's House of Cards - House of Commons have had us watching the media with more rapture and rapt fascination than any blockbuster movie.

But we wring our hands in glee and cheer the demise of the wrong villain!

We cheer the implosion of the Conservative party, but the success of the UK will only be found in the death of Labour.

Hear me out!!!

Trade and War are two faces of the same coin; Competition. One wins with bullets and bombs, the other with being better and more creative and more efficient. But both share the same aim to win.

Technology inevitably brings an ever shrinking and ever more interconnected world.  This is not something that is driven by governments, it is driven by commerce, competition, and the desire to win. In this ever-shrinking world, a handful of trading blocs have emerged that will  go on to dominate the globe; the Americas, Asia Pacific, Russia, China and of course Europe. (perhaps Africa in time)

In the school playground or on the streets if there are gangs a kid has to choose whether and which gang to belong to. If he goes it alone, he becomes the enemy of every gang,.. and he suffers.

As it is in the playground, it is so in the world, because it is the same human traits that drive the evolution of gangs and global powers.

If Johnson is kicked out but succeeds at calling a general election, Labour will probably take the reins. 

But Labour have just made the tragic mistake of committing to Make Brexit Work.

Brexit in its final reduction is to be the lone kid in the playground.

Worse still, when Labour takes power, they inherit an economic catastrophe that the Tories have been hiding with smoke and mirrors. A single term in office, especially when hampered by our leaving the EU, our largest trading partner, will be impossible to reverse in the course of a single term.

As a result Labour, will be in office for a single term. After 4 years when the economy is no better than it is now, and likely substantially worse, the people suffering hardship will turn on them and the Tories will be standing by with more flag-waiving and promised tax cuts.

Hmmm, so you have grievances with the EU; The MEPs on a gravy train, the unelected nature of some posts, bendy bananas or immigration. It's not that your concerns are invalid, it's that they are not the defining issues in the 21st-century reality of an ever-shrinking world that will inevitably be dominated by a handful of trading blocs.

Ask any streetwise kid caught up in gang warfare, the choice is only which gang.

The UK is lucky that the gang that is closest to on the map, is also the gang that it is closest to at heart.

Labour in its utterly misguided Make Brexit Work has condemned the UK to a real kicking.

We need Labour to die, not the Tories, because labour cannot see the inevitability of needing to be inside the EU, or perhaps they are not willing, to be honest in explaining that to the electorate.

For too long Labour has been too big to let anyone else win at First Past the Post, but also, too weak to win. Labour in recent years, have just served best at keeping the Tories in power. 

And the UK desperately needs a new centre-left, 21st-century savvy, pro-EU party.

Whilst here, a plea to the Liberal Democrats and the Greens. For goodness sake, unite to form the Green Democrats, you have more in common than you have that separates you. Together and under a new banner you could shrug off the legacy issue of "propping up the Tories" and "being an also-ran". you would stand ready both for getting good people defecting from both Labour and Tory and you would stand ready if necessary to ensure and power share or coalition was entirely dependent on getting PR. 
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I write this as a lifelong confirmed left-of-centre voter.