A top US magazine has issued a scathing assessment of Britain after 14 years of Tory rule, slamming Brexit and the “accelerating, diminishing” changes in prime ministers since 2010.
The New Yorker’s scathing report on the state of the UK reveals how Brexit has “given birth to some of the worst tendencies in British politics”, its superficiality, nostalgia and love of games.
The report said the country had “suffered severely” from “years of loss and waste” under successive Conservative prime ministers.
The New Yorker magazine looks back on 14 years of Conservative rule in Britain
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“Living standards have fallen. The country is exhausted by constant drama. But Britain cannot escape the Tories without confronting the damage that has been done,” journalist Sam Knight wrote.
The article comes just months before Rishi Sunak is expected to face the country at this October’s general election.
His Conservative Party trails Labor by 22 points in opinion polls and, barring a dramatic turn of fortunes for the party, Sir Keir Starmer will move into No. 10 Downing Street.
The Labor leader promised a “decade of national renewal” if he won the election, reversing the country’s “never-ending Tory decline”.
An influential New Yorker article said: “Some people insist that the past fifteen years of British politics cannot be satisfactorily explained.
“The only way to think about it is as a psychological drama, mostly staged by a small group of middle-aged men who went to elite private schools and studied at Oxford University, all the time climbing and falling over each other. From Since then, he has fallen off the ladder of British public life – what Boris Johnson once called a “cursed honour”.”
Keir Starmer promises to turn the page on “the Tories’ never-ending decline” and usher in a “decade of national renewal”
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The article noted that the country was not being ruled “against its will” although “one party was responsible” and accused Labor leaders Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn of being unpopular.
How readers interpret the Brexit vote explains how they see the last 14 years of British politics as “a prism that completely clarifies or muddies the picture”.
It added: “One view is that the whole saga is a tragic mistake. It is in this view that Cameron has decided to settle once and for all the debate within the Conservative Party over Britain’s place in an integrated EU, an issue that has existed since Thacher The party has been haunted by Mrs. Trump since her last days.
“In the process, he turned an esoteric obsession of the British political right into a far simpler binary choice about how people feel about their lives.”
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