In November 2016, less than twenty percent of Americans voted for Donald Trump as the US president. Hillary Clinton received almost three million more votes than did Trump. Just saying.
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Boris Johnson last week was selected by 365 Conservative MPs as the British prime minister. 14 million British citizens, some 21% of the population, voted for a Conservative MP. And those MPs, as part of the legislature, exist in part to hold the prime minister and the rest of his executive to account on behalf of the good citizens of the United Kingdom.
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As the nation waits to find out who will be taking charge of our country, Saqib Qureshi looks at Vote Leave mastermind, Dominic Cummings to see how with a stable government in place he could shake things up.
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America: the land of the free, and home of the brave. It’s a beacon of hope for so many around the world, emigrating to the expansive land to start anew, chase their dreams, and hope for a better future for their families.
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We’ve been using the term ‘the gravy train’ for a century to describe jobs with good pay with little work. Nowadays we use it especially for the rich and wealthy who we often accuse of earning far too much, for being far too lazy.
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When Greta Thunberg talks of a generation of political leaders of who have taken her future, in reference to the impact of climate change, one point strikes me. She’s not even seventeen. If she was living in the US, and like other seventeen-year olds, she would not be entitled to vote in elections.
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It’s no secret that Western democracies around the world are struggling to appeal to the everyday person, with extremist parties, like Antifa in the US, the Brexit Party in the UK, as well as the rise of the National Rally in France, perfectly articulating what’s happening in our societies today.
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When Western democracies, like the US, were founded or emerged hundreds of years ago, the assumption was that democratic politicians would carry good intentions; that they would run for office to service their electorate, not to make themselves into celebrities.
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It’s true, the 2018 US mid-term elections were indicative of a more inclusive future in politics, with politicians who actually represent the cultural and ethnic backgrounds of their districts winning. Examples include Jahana Hayes, a former high school teacher elected as the first black woman in Connecticut to the House of Representatives. And then there were Sylvia Garcia and Veronica Escobar, becoming Texas’s first-ever Latina women in Congress.
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