The centre left haven't won anything in a decade in this country, in fact across Europe it's barely had a victory since the crash. The third way is dead. Should've bought some crisps mate.

If punk ever happened I'd be preaching the law, instead of listenin to Lydon lecture BBC4

Extremism on either side will be on the wane in 5 years time. Apart from Greece, the anti-austerity parties are losing traction as their economy recovers from its depths. Here, although it's vulgar to mention, since the crash if you weren't in debt, had and kept a job, and with interest rates staying where
they are for the foreseeable with little or declining inflation, you've never had so much disposable income in your life.

Which is why restaurants are full, luxury goods are best selling, new car sales have never been higher, airlines are raking it in as people travel regularly and further, and hotels are able to charge pretty well what they like for rooms. It's just that not everyone's experienced that and the divide between the haves and have nots has got wider.

And why the silent majority returned the party that they saw responsible for setting this scene earlier in the year.

You're right about the crisps though mate.

Living down here does have some advantages. At least you can see them cry.

I think you have a very interesting take on social progression in the past few years, although I disagree with you, particularly on this point. Wages in real terms have fallen faster in the past 5 years than at any point in the past 50. Yes, the upper middle class in this country haven't been affected too badly, mainly because as you say you have interest rates at an all time low. But they will have to go up, probably at some point in the next 18 months, and that will have an enormous effect on the housing market, especially on those in rented accommodation (who by 2020 will outweigh those who own their own homes).

I also just don't see how you can claim that 'extremism' (although personally I think Corbyn's keynesian social democratic offer is hardly extreme) will just go away. Across the western world there is no sign of it slowing up, look at the two leading candidates for the presidential race in America, the Front national in France, the Catalonian independents sweeping the board in the regional elections in Spain etc etc etc. By 2020 you'll have a couple of million more youngsters, the majority of whom will, like the current generation, be fed up of being told they will be worse off than their parents, because of a deficit they played no part in creating.

One final point on the centre-left. Liz Kendall got 4.5% of the vote in the Labour leadership contest, and this supposed surge in support for the Lib Dems since Corbyn won has been invisible. Why? Because there is absolutely no coherent narrative for them to push, and there hasn't been since the crash. What was Milliband's economic plan? In fact can anyone actually name one distinctive policy that the Lib Dems have? That's why I just can't see your prediction coming true, I just have no idea what a new SDP would stand for.

If punk ever happened I'd be preaching the law, instead of listenin to Lydon lecture BBC4

Makes me giggle how some on here just expect high levels of Immigration to have no effect at all.

Multicultralism only works if all cultures are accepting of the other and will make allowances for one another.

THAT IS NOT HAPPENING.

Regardless of what side of the fence you sit, that can not be ignored.

Sorry to use a football analogy but, if you have a team with a great team ethos works well etc etc, then you start introducing new unfamilier players with different ways of doing things to fast and to many at once, the team falls apart, you lose the dressing room, and things do not go well from there on in.

However if you introduce the changes slowly, teach both new and old the new way of things they come together to improve and be a better team. Much like the lord our Pards has done, however this does rely on people buying what he is selling.

At the moment to many people are pissed off at there own lot in life, to be arsed about being accepting of someone else's problems, espeicially if the perecption is the new "players" are getting treated better than the older ones.

"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'"

One of my closest and dearest friends is Indian, we've been friends for 25 years, and as a result I've known his family, friends etc quite well, and all of them have experienced threats and insults hurled at them by whites over the years. Similarly, people I've known who are Muslim. And its not just their say so, I've been there when people have started on him because he is Indian in bars and clubs.

Now it could just be a local thing, but I doubt it. I've know people who are quite racist and open about it over my life time, that goes beyond just the **** joke here and there. We as a nation, are not as accommodating as we like to think. There are plenty of s**ts who are happy to give abuse, vandalise property and attack people because of their skin colour. We just accept them as not being 'indicative' of the nation.

Thing is we look at the minority of c**ts in Islam and paint the majority by association, but we then excuse our own 'race group', because its just a 'minority'.

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Isn't this a contradiction ?

You have just done to the British what you claim we do to others. Judging the many by a few.

Having a go at people because they are different is a universal theme among humans. Not just for their race but for a whole lot of other things. Like I said previously, it's all relative.

Britain is way down the list for prejudice and is appealing to migrants in a number of ways. This is born out by how many people want to come here as opposed to other nearer countries.