Our Brexit limbo has given us two new parties, but the same old politics | Rafael Behr

Never mind the insurgent ‘outsiders’. What we need is better politicians, not anti-politics, to get us out of this mess

Imagine that, for some reason, you want to lose an election. You need a vote-repellent campaign, something really unsupportable. You would probably form the Establishment party – passionately in favour of the system, cheering for the status quo. Your candidates would boast of their credentials as career politicians. Their slogan would be “business as usual”.

This imaginary party is the perfect adversary, the most beatable thing in British politics – which is why real-life parties all want to run against it. Everyone claims to be the new politics and pins the despicable badge of oldness on their rivals.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2UOYGp3