UK Election Special w/ James Meadway and Richard Seymour
Added 2024-07-01 05:15:00 +0000 UTCToday’s show is a crossover episode with our good friends over at the Macrodose podcast, which is hosted by economist James Meadway. In the episode James is joined by Richard Seymour to discuss the upcoming UK general election. We talked about the crisis in the Conservative Party and the prospects of a post-election merger with Nigel Farage's Reform party. We also discussed whether Farage's comments on Ukraine damage his electoral prospects, the likelihood of Labour implementing austerity and why - as James argues - the 4th of July is likely to be the last "normal" general election held in the UK.
Comments
“electrified hope”!
David
2024-07-06 02:58:49 +0000 UTCGreat episode - and I’m a fan of both podcasts. However, I think there has been strategic ineptitude on the left when it comes to electoral politics and James has contributed to that. Since 2019, people on the left have quite rightly concluded that the theory of Labour being a vehicle for any progressive change at all (not even socialism) has been tested to destruction. Yet James has spent years on Twitter arguing that any establishment of an independent party (those minor parties would either have to be folded in or allowed to continue in irrelevance) is a foolish prospect that has no chance of succeeding. Now, of course it’s true that without Unite and some of the smaller but powerful unions like the RMT affiliating it wouldn’t be worth it, but that’s why there should have been an emphasis on changing the union leaderships rather than simply telling people on X to ‘join a union’.
Michael Doyle
2024-07-01 16:34:49 +0000 UTC
