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Playing 'The Blair Card'

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Sacrificing your morality, integrity and courage might make you more popular with the establishment, it may even win you elections but at a time when the status-quo is threatening the very existence of human civilisation, it must be avoided at all costs. Intro- ‘New Leadership’ As of April , Keir Starmer was elected as leader of the British Labour Party on a mandate of preserving the previously held progressive politics introduced by Jeremy Corbyn but with a new coat of paint. Instead we have seen a sharp shift rightwards , and a void of substantive alternatives to unending unemployment and poverty spurred on by what seems like the second-coming of the Great Recession . It is because of this that we must examine the appeal of his brand of politics and where it will inevitably lead. Part 1- A Tale of Two Life Crises At the height of suburbia induced depression, there is a practice that often consumes the lives of many alienated and discontented members of the middle class. In ...