Anarchy in the UK

Anarchy in the UK

By: Erreh Svaia

Goat Dispersion

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Winston Churchill

So, British Prime Minister Theresa May though calling elections in the UK would be helpful to strengthen her government? I guess its becoming a common factor, arrogance is defeating politicians everywhere, shamefully enough, it seems that May didn’t learn the lesson from her antecessor David Cameron, who called for a referendum on Brexit, and lost, even his job, now it´s May turn, she has put her job on peril, she bet everything and lost, lost the overall majority of her Conservative Party on the Parliament and while she aimed to concentrate more power in order to go hard on the Brexit negotiations, she lost power and cohesion, and will have to go along in coalition with the Democratic Unionist Party of Ireland, a position that will leave her weakened and demanding her a more conciliatory role, a perfect situation for Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to seize the chance and became a pain in the ass for May, yes, I know it’s hard to learn from other´s people mistakes.

Ironically, May is becoming the latest casualty of the “Trump Phenomenon”, as we have watched the disastrous defeats of people like Gert Wilders in the Netherlands and then Marine Le Pen in France, national populists who jumped on the Trump bandwagon expecting to become heads of government in their respective countries, and apparently, considering the dramatic decline in popularity of Trump, is not hard to conclude that Trump is dragging all of them as he stumbles, May might be the last one, as she pursued a more statistic and illiberal direction in her administration, it seems that the strategy backfired leaving her in a diminished state on the road towards the Brexit nomination.

Perhaps is a little adventurous to declare this as a Jeremy Corbyn triumph, but he will be able to become a more powerful figure on the UK´s Parliament bringing populist´s hard rhetoric to the debates and putting finally an end to the Tony Blair era of Left Centre politics, bringing on some more extreme left wings politics to the table, Corbyn, a populist anomaly in the Labor Party, is another lost piece of the Bolivarian puzzle Latin America seem to have exported to Europe, as we have witnessed recently the rise (and fall) of Alexis Tsipras in Greece, Pablo Iglesias in Spain, Jean Luc Mélenchon in France, raising considerations as a possible reformed version of the movement inspired by Cuban, Sandinista and Chavista politics happening in Europe, Corbyn is a little extremist character, having both a fascination with separatist movements like the IRA in Ireland, Hezbollah and Hamas in the Middle East and Chavismo in Venezuela, and considering his resurgence in this elections, might also give oxygen to the forgotten “American socialist” Bernie Sanders, who played a similar role to Corbyn, challenging the status quo inside the Democratic Party the USA, Corbyn´s advances in the UK might revitalize Sanders in a moment when Trump is annihilating himself, but the opposition hasn’t been able to become a coherent movement against The Donald, but also Corbyn, the admirer of Hugo Chávez could become a curse and another blow on Mexican Populist Andrés López, leader of the MoReNa Party, and a close friend of Corbyn, who has recently been accused in Mexico of being associated with the Venezuelan dictatorial government.

Only time will tell the real outcome of the risky movement by May, but it can announce an uncomfortable position for the UK government during the Brexit negotiation, paradoxically here, Brexit became a window of opportunity wide open for the national populist, and now again in the UK, the defeat of May might be a sign that the window is finally open (consider now that main Brexit instigators, the UKIP were totally despised on the elections, and main leader Nigel Farage is suspected on the USA as working for the Kremlin during the USA elections) , it was a significant triumph of the younger generations, who finally defeated the older generations who voted for the Brexit.