For most of the Western left, the collapse of state socialism at the end of the 1980s led to depression, soul-searching, New Labour and other forms of political despair.
The party had come to realise that there were ‘new barriers’ standing in the way – such as the trend for ‘problem-mongering’, as Hume calls it, a tendency to inflate ‘the dangers and difficulties which face us in every field’. People, he argues, are either ‘patronised as hapless, fragile victims’ or beset by warnings against ‘"the beast within us all" that needs to be caged or repressed’.
Now when I hear Ed Miliband (in all likelihood the next UK Prime Minister) espousing. I see tractors, pennants, overalls, contoured cheekbones, sculpted fonts: a forward thinking and optimistic vision, scientific and unsentimental, and therefore pretty much identical to that familiar and deeply horrible idealisation of strength and power and technology common to many brands of modern and quasi-modernist political kitsch.
Miliband's thinking is shallow, canalised, one-sided, diktats that brook no argument
He is the Goliath bullying a helpless little lefty David.
With is £1000 suits from Saville Row and million dollar home, - no 'cost of living crisis' there, he display that Moddish fixation on looking ‘sharp’
He sets upon his supporters a form of ‘victim culture’, ‘as he as he expounds on his voyeuristic impulse to claim a stake in other people’s pain’.
If Miliband becomes Prime Minister people will leave the UK in droves, just as they did when
Monsieur Hollande was elected in France.
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