Hi, folks. Welcome back to another one of these current events political chats that Dan and I have decided to start having, because there's a lot that's going on in British politics at the moment, but it's going on under the surface. And so I don't think as much attention to it is being called upon as is warrant it. Because a lot of things have happened, but they're small things, but they are

indicative of trends that are, I think, at some point going to kind of erupt out of the political

environment. And so I want to talk about them. So let's talk about some of the council

by election results that come in recently. As you can see here, this is in Exmouth-Holston,

in East Devon, where the Labour vote just completely collapsed. So when you say things are under the surface, are you talking about the Tories and Labor's prospect of ever forming a government again?

Well, yeah, actually. I actually do think we might be looking at the last Labour government. And I was tweeting about this the other day,

because it seems that the coalition that made up the Labour Party is just completely fractured at this point.

The Labour right, as they call it, made up of managerial Blair-Eyte types, were able to corral the working class and

the radical student politics types into the same coalition. But that seems to have just

completely been a blizzard. Well, that's an interesting question. Who are the

extant labor managerialist Blair rights.

I mean, I can think of Andy Burnham, but after that, I kind of come up short.

And he's not actually even in the parliamentary Labour Party at this point.

We'll talk about the parliamentary Labour Party in a minute.

But the question really is, who is their constituency?

And the answer is civil servants and NHS workers.

Well, and immigrants.

But they're losing them.

Well, exactly.

It's not even the immigrants, right?

And it seems that basically Labor were trying to pull in too many various parties

into the coalition that were too contradictory.

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