Steve Davies: evaluation

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…Why are these parties so weak? Labor in England? For a very simple reason. Because, basically, they are trying to appeal to two radically different and increasingly hostile blocks of voters. On the one hand, traditional, typically older, white, working class voters who are economically left wing but culturally very traditionalist and very conservative. On the other hand, a more metropolitan, younger, very green, very environmentally conscious, very PC, you might say, culturally leftist group who basically have the same kind of left‑of‑center economics as the first group, but in every other respect are simply on a totally different agenda. It’s almost impossible to appeal to both of those two groups at once. Social democratic parties in most parts of Europe are losing their traditional working class base to the new populist politics. That’s what’s happening now. If I may, I’d like to put a question to you now. Sure. [laughter]…

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