A comically over-the-top piece at the Guardian's CiF from Aditya Chakrabortty, who sees the scheming Machiavellian May leading Britain to a one-party state. Why Theresa May is a true heir to Richard Nixon:
To see where May is leading Britain, I picked up one of the great contemporary histories of America. In Nixonland, Rick Perlstein charts how his country turned to all-out culture war. Perlstein dates the process back to Richard Nixon, who in the late 60s successfully “forged a public language that promised mastery of the strange new angers, anxieties, and resentments wracking the nation”. By 1972 he had won a landslide victory.
I defy any Briton to read Perlstein’s description of this “brilliant and tormented man”, completely devoid of the glad-handing or baby-kissing skills of the natural politician, and not think about a leader closer to home. In 1972 Nixon’s attack dogs destroyed his Democratic opponent, George McGovern, by defining him as the candidate of “amnesty, abortion, and acid”. You can already see how Jeremy Corbyn will be tagged as the friend of Hamas, Hezbollah and tax hikes….
May’s solution is to turn Britain into a one-party state. After June she will probably have a once-in-a-generation majority, and the mandate to define Brexit any way she wants. A Conservative using the language of the hard right will have won the battle to define the very identity of Britain. That is what makes 8 June unlike any other election I can remember.
The Guardian commenters get to take it apart:
Just because Labour poisoned its own well and made itself undetectable [sic] doesn't mean their rival party is responsible for the virtual one-party state.
The UK has eight political parties represented in parliament, not one. Which is the biggest, which is the smallest, who gains and who loses seats is up to the British public. This cry-baby nonsense about creeping fascism just because Labour sabotaged itself is risible… but just like every other narrative Labour has come up with lately, the great British public is unmoved and unimpressed.
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You can already see how Jeremy Corbyn will be tagged as the friend of Hamas, Hezbollah and tax hikes.
Yes, by himself. You can add the IRA, Castro, and several others to that list, but all because they are true, not some imaginary smear campaign.
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"May’s solution is to turn Britain into a one-party state."
Presumably by getting significantly more people to vote for her and her parties' policies than vote for the ridiculous Corbyn and the rabble that back him.
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Nixon?!!!
Why not Napoleon?,
Attilla?,
Caligula?
Piltdown Man?
Mick Hartley 
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