[SJB]

If we are to enter into a discussion of why the democratic socialist parties - type British Labour - are leaking voters to the populist right, I will suggest a perfectly simple explanation. It is this; back when the Labour parties could produce a majority on their own, what Labour voters voted for was more pay and better conditions for the workers. Period. Today those that runs those parties are out to save and liberate and create sympathy for every downtrodden grouping imaginable. Which may well be highly laudable, but not competitive with the simple message of the populist right, that promises the results Labour once promised to obtain by squeezing the worker-exploiting capital-owners, by keeping the hungry foreigners out and getting rid of all speed and joy-hampering rules and regulations.