Our prime minister is turning this election into a culture war,using the language of the tough moral to define the very identity of Britain – and create a one-party UKElections come with their own rituals. The big night demands Dimblevision and swingometers and some low-budget jape that presumably sounded good in production meetings. But one thing 8 June won’t be is normal. There is no point in journalists reporting this as a horse race, when all the polls predict a massacre. It is futile for specialists to pick apart policy promises made in spring 2017 when the next few years’ haggling over Brexit will upend everything from the safeguards on the food we eat to our relations with other countries.
Most significant, and it is delusional to treat this as just another vote,when Theresa May and her outriders are intent on turning it into a culture war. June is shaping up to become a hinge point in British politics: the moment a venom was injected into public discourse. Related: Trump’s recent culture war has left liberals reeling. They thought they’d won that battle | Rich Lowry You can already see how Jeremy Corbyn will be tagged as the friend of Hamas, Hezbollah and tax hikesContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com