Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

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I saw about thirty minutes of the opening event in the hustings to choose a new Labour leader from the line-up of four. The first thing to say is that whoever is chosen will be most likely up against Boris in 2020. If not it will be May or Osborne. All of these are big hitters. Boris is a political mega star, celebrity and national treasure all in one. So the winner will have to measure up.

My impression, and of course this can easily change as one gets to know these people through the progression of the campaign, is that Burnham means well but is too lightweight in personna to win votes in the south and Reeves is too far to the right. With her why not get the real thing and vote Tory? So that leaves Cooper, who came across as a much more engaging and connected personality than I had previously thought, with a sharp political instinct, who may become the front runner. And Corbin. He was powerful, focussed, answered the questions actually put in plain words which were to the point and got the most applause. Watch him.

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A month ago this blog was confident that when the vote finally comes, the UK will vote to remain part of the EU. Now I am not so sure. The reason for these doubts which I know are shared by many, is that several things are going wrong in Europe at once, which give an impression of muddled vision, weak governance, lack of strategic planning and a failure of common purpose.

The key areas are the fiasco of Greece, the failure to agree a common policy to receive desperate migrants, most of whom are fleeing conflicts and persecutions fanned by policies supported by or originating from Europe, indigestion from too much eastward expansion creating an over diverse Union with widely differing aspirations and values between North and South, West and East leading to drift and division and finally the problem of the UK and its future relationship.

All of these things could be solved by a strategic view, a logical and practical plan based on fact not fancy, sound governance and a common purpose. But none of this is in evidence at all anywhere except in Germany and its view is not shared by very many of the other nations in an enterprise which not long ago seemed forever, but so much of European history, looks increasingly here today and gone tomorrow. It is not too late to get a grip, but the time when it will be is not that far down the track.