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The Breakdown of Britain: Zombie Labourism and Political Chaos

The Breakdown of Britain: Zombie Labourism and Political Chaos

Finn, Daniel

Hardcover

General Political ScienceBritish History

Publisher Price: $31.95

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ISBN10: 1804295574
ISBN13: 9781804295571
Publisher: Verso
Published: Apr 6 2027
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.25
Language: English
What went wrong with Westminster: Britain's post-Thatcher hellscape.

The Breakdown of Britain asks a simple, unsettling question: why does British politics feel permanently stuck, even after landslide elections and supposed 'resets'? Under Labour, growth has stalled, living standards remain depressed, and a government with unrivalled parliamentary power appears unable to change direction. At the same time, Nigel Farage's Reform UK has surged to unprecedented heights, dragging the political centre rightwards without even taking office. Daniel Finn shows that this is not a temporary malfunction but the endpoint of a deeper collapse. Over the past decade - from the drive for Scottish independence to Brexit, from Corbynism's rise and fall to the implosion of the Conservative Party - the political order built after Thatcher has steadily come apart. Its institutions endure, but their capacity to deliver consent or stability does not. Why do governments with commanding majorities seem paralysed? Why does pressure from the radical right travel so easily through the system, while challenges from the left are neutralised? And is today's drab stabilisation under Keir Starmer a resolution or merely a pause before the next upheaval? Clear-eyed and unsparing, The Breakdown of Britain explains why the crisis is not over, and why its next phase may be more dangerous than the last.

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